Nokia displaying new real-time car traffic gadget

Nokia working with Navteq is not a surprise, being that Nokia owns the GPS giant. However, even before the purchase of the company, Nokia had struck an agreement with Navteq to start developing a real-time traffic application to be used on GPS-enabled cell phones. While there has been a pilot program for a while now with over 10,000 users, it has really been pushed into the mainstream in the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress in New York. The project is called the "Mobile Millennium".

The biggest challenge with this is that traffic information available through Navteq's technology is only collected using sensors that have been deployed by the government. These sensors sit on busy roads monitoring car speeds and the volume of these areas, but they cost way too much money to be deployed on a mass scale. Unfortunately this means that traffic information is usually only available in large metropolitan areas, but it's missing on the outskirt roads feeding into these highways or on rural secondary roads.

However, the project is working on deploying this to broader areas, and there is said to be a commercial product that will be available within 2 years.

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