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Originally Posted by n5160u
When you see the TV cameras on light poles watching local roads and you also see the inductive loops buried in the road surface to monitor the traffic flow, you may start getting traffic info on that monitored section of road.
Until you see those signs of traffic monitoring going in at the roads in question give it up. Most communities are too broke to spare the money to do it. The Feds will cough up the funding if the commute traffic in the area is congested enough to warrant the creation and implementation a regional transportation corridor.
Clear Channel only rebroadcasts traffic information they get from external sources. They do not generate the traffic flow information internally. In Calif they get most of their traffic data from the California Dept of Transportation (CALTRANS)
The CHP Traffic Incident Reporting System at:
http://cad.chp.ca.gov/
And turn it into something like this:
http://www.dot.ca.gov/traffic/
Notice that only congested areas of the state are monitored.
Or this:
http://video.dot.ca.gov/ |
I was refering to this:
http://www.bmwcca.org/node/6842
I thought this "Smart Dust Network" was supposed to be turned on soon. It would cover surface streets and help make the existing traffic coverage more accurate, without the need of a navi update.