Friday, November 7, 2008

Project turns GPS phones into traffic reporters

<A target="_blank" href="http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/57457/project-turns-gps-phones-traffic-reporters">Called Mobile Millennium</A>, a project to turn thousands of mobile phones into traffic monitors, opens to the public on Monday. Researchers from Nokia and the University of California in Berkeley hope volunteers will download a free Java program that computes their movement and location, then transmits that information to the project's servers. The software uses algorithms to determine when people are moving, stuck in traffic or stopped by the roadside for a breather.

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