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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vodafone, TomTom partner to create real-time traffic data network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/vodafone-tomtom-partner-to-create-real-time-traffic-data-networ/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/vodafone-tomtom-partner-to-create-real-time-traffic-data-networ/</guid><description><![CDATA[This approach seems much less capital intensive than the existing approach. It would also allow integrations of pedestrians, bicycles, motorcycyles, tuktuks and other more-than-a-motorcycle-bult-less-than-a-car vehicles into a overall trasport-congestion information system. The lower capital costs and the recording of the many types of users on the roads in places like China and India may make it particularly valuable in these markets.<br><a href="http://www.ben-miller.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.ben-miller.com</a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Miller]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 28th 2006 1:17AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vodafone, TomTom partner to create real-time traffic data network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/vodafone-tomtom-partner-to-create-real-time-traffic-data-networ/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/vodafone-tomtom-partner-to-create-real-time-traffic-data-networ/</guid><description><![CDATA[I can see a few obvious problems with this system: how do they differentiate between various types of vehicles? Ok, if you're on a highway you're probably not on a bike but to do traffic management in urban areas you would need to somehow identify the types of vehicles and classify them by speed and traffic patterns (e.g. taxis go fast but sometimes stop to pick up fares or wait for a client, bikes go slow but that's not a sign of congestion, pedestrians go even slower but that again is no sign of congestion. If I park my car and start walking, how do they tell that I got out of the car and it's not my car moving at 1mph? In an urban environment there might be more pedestrians than cars in certain areas and I doubt their system is accurate enough to detect that they are on the sidewalk and not on the actual street. But I guess I'll just wait and see, maybe they've already considered these issues.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Razvan Dragomirescu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 28th 2006 6:42AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vodafone, TomTom partner to create real-time traffic data network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/vodafone-tomtom-partner-to-create-real-time-traffic-data-networ/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/vodafone-tomtom-partner-to-create-real-time-traffic-data-networ/</guid><description><![CDATA[I had this exact idea in 2004, and presented it as part of a business/engineering entrepreneurship class I had.  The professors said that my plan was the most viable and most marketable and suggested I pursue it.   Two and a half years later, looks like Vodafone and TomTom beat me to it. :)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Victor Trac]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 28th 2006 9:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vodafone, TomTom partner to create real-time traffic data network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/vodafone-tomtom-partner-to-create-real-time-traffic-data-networ/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/vodafone-tomtom-partner-to-create-real-time-traffic-data-networ/</guid><description><![CDATA[Razvan Dragomirescu - search on "Alex Pentland." I don't really understand principal components analysis, but I take it that this technique (along with Branched Markov Chains - don't ask me!) offers a computationally efficient way around some of your issues.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Miller]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 28th 2006 11:16AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Vodafone, TomTom partner to create real-time traffic data network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/vodafone-tomtom-partner-to-create-real-time-traffic-data-networ/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/vodafone-tomtom-partner-to-create-real-time-traffic-data-networ/</guid><description><![CDATA[This has got to be one of the smartest and most original ideas in a long time. I applaud the inventors and anybody else who had thought of it before I even got a chance to, including #3 - Victor Trac.<br><br>Implementation might be a little tricky, given the different types of cellphone users, but a search through academia, and I'm sure there are enough algorithms out there to make it work. And if cellphone companies started sharing this data with each other, even more accuracy.<br><br>INGENIOUS!!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bo Gus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 29th 2006 5:40PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
