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Cell phones to carry traffic info
Steve Eldridge, The Examiner
Dec 5, 2007 3:00 AM (744 days ago)WASHINGTON

One of the hottest bits of technology being developed to help drivers know about congestion and resultant speeds on a given stretch of roadway involves signals from cell phones. We have been watching this for some time and have noted that one of the test areas is along Interstate 95 near Baltimore. The information is gathered by sensing cell phone signals in cars as they pass from one “cell” to the next. The software algorithms calculate how many cell phones (vehicles) there are in a given stretch of road and how fast they are moving.

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