Smart Traffic Forecast Offers 7-Day Predictions

[OneFinger]

A traffic forecasting system capable of predicting traffic conditions seven days in advance will go live to the public in California on Wednesday.

 

Alongside the weather forecast, viewers of KXTV News 10 in Sacramento can now get 3D animations of their local road network, showing not only where the gridlock is but also where it is likely to be...

 

The system takes real-time sensor information from major routes and junctions as its inputs. In addition to this it uses alerts on traffic related weather conditions, road incident alerts, road works and even some calendar events such as sporting events, in order to make its predictions...

 

In the coming months the company is planning to roll the system out to 19 major cities in the US, including San Francisco, Los Angeles and Atlanta. In time, Gueziec hopes, traffic forecasts will become a staple feature of TV, much like weather forecasts.

 

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7605

[Guest EWC]

Great! What we need now is one more 5 minutes on the news of prognostication that has even less chance of accuracy than the weather, which has practically none at all.

[+ deej]

Weather reports in LA are actually pretty accurate, but how difficult is it to predict "haze in the morning burning off by noon"? ;-)

 

Traffic reports are likewise predictable. In any rush hour, we'll have:

 

1) A problem SOMEWHERE on the 405, and if not well it's no picnic in normal conditions

2) Major bottleneck at the 101/405 intersection, more so since it's a construction zone until 2014

3) A problem SOMEWHERE on the 210 somewhere near Azusa

4) Santa Monica freeway will be gridlocked

 

Add a problem on any other freeway to the mix, and you'll probably be pretty close to the truth. :+

[samhexum]

A traffic forecasting system capable of predicting traffic conditions seven days in advance will go live to the public in California on Wednesday.

 

http://assets.amuniversal.com/0d21c7909fd50135f8ec005056a9545d

Edited November 13, 2017 by samhexum

[Kevin Slater]

It's really odd when they predict "police action".

 

Kevin Slater