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Berkeley press release: Union City, Calif. — Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Nokia today (Friday, Feb. tested technology that could soon transform the way drivers navigate through congested highways and obtain information about road conditions. In the unprecedented field experiment, transportation researchers tested the feasibility of using GPS-enabled mobile phones to monitor real-time traffic flow while preserving the privacy of the phones’ users. One hundred vehicles were deployed onto a 10-mile stretch of I-880 between Hayward and Fremont for seven hours in the experiment, dubbed “Mobile Century” and primarily funded by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). Each car was equipped with a Nokia N95 mobile phone that ran special software to periodically send anonymous speed readings from the integrated GPS to servers that then computed traffic conditions. Information was displayed on the Internet, allowing viewers to visualize traffic in real time. An independent tracking feature allowed the command center set up in Union City to track the position of the cars to coordinate the experiment and ensure the safety of the participants. Using the GPS data to estimate prevailing speeds and travel times, researchers were able to obtain a picture of real-time traffic conditions. Current traffic monitoring systems primarily rely upon pavement-embedded sensors, roadside radar or cameras. The high cost of installing and maintaining such systems has restricted their coverage to limited stretches of highway. This research project between UC Berkeley and the Nokia Research Center was born of collaborative efforts by UC Berkeley’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and Tekes, a Finnish government funding agency. Both CITRIS and Tekes foster partnerships between universities, research institutes and industry to speed technological innovation to consumers. www.citris-uc.org

This is Quinn Jacobson, a research leader at Nokia’s research centre in Palo Alto. Quinn heads up the Traffic Works program, and like Nokia’s NFC program, Traffic Works is like a hybrid of technologies, but seems to be based mostly on GPS.

collaboration with Nokia, Navteq, the California and Federal Departments of Transportation, and with support from CITRIS, launched the Mobile Millennium pilot project in November 2008. The project uses GPS-equipped cell phones to provide real-time traffic information all over the Bay Area and is hosted by the California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT), a deployment-focused research center at UC Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies. www.citris-uc.org … CITRIS UCB …

UC Berkeley and Nokia researchers used GPS-enabled cell phones to test a technology that could soon transform the way drivers navigate through traffic. In the unprecedented Cal-trans funded field experiment, transportation researchers used GPS-enabled mobile phones to monitor real-time traffic flow while preserving the privacy of the phones’ users. … Cell Phones Traffic GPS engineering science Technology CCIT CITRIS UC Berkeley Nokia Research