Traffic speed increased by 25% during business hours and bus ridership by 6%.
Traffic speed is now shown with four colors (green, yellow, red, and black).
Waze's app automatically gathers information from drivers' phones about traffic speed, then reroutes other drivers accordingly.
(Average traffic speed: about seven miles per hour, no faster than a running possum).
Moving at a moderate downtown Rijeka traffic speed (about 20 miles an hour), I spied a squad car maneuvering alongside.
Many residential communities like ours have observed roads and traffic volume and traffic speed grow around them.
Oxfordshire, facing a nearly $1 million trim in its road safety budget, has been forced to shut down all of its 161 traffic speed cameras.
For example, wireless providers like AT&T and Sprint are looking into applications that would use drivers' GPS smartphones to monitor traffic speed in real time.
The monitors collect information on lane occupancy and traffic speed, and the data then is supposed to be transmitted live to electronic message boards and other devices.
The Nuvifone also receives real-time traffic details; color-coded road lines represent traffic speed, and the unit offers to route you around them.
Passions about the plazas run particularly hot among taxi drivers, a few of whom expressed horror on Thursday about the effect on traffic speed.
