RouteInform.com Suggests Using Driving Directions To Alleviate Traffic Congestion In Major Urban Areas

Traffic-responsive driving directions are the most time-efficient driving directions - from origin to destination - that avoid major accidents, incidents, and congestion at major bottlenecks.

A service offering these directions can help to alleviate traffic congestion. Since responsive driving directions always find the shortest time paths for drivers, the suggested paths always distribute drivers to multiple alternate routes and avoid traffic build-ups and long delays. By not adding more cars to the back-ups at major congestion locations, there are less cars waiting in a queue to dissipate at a bottleneck. Therefore the queue length is much shorter and congestion is diminished.

Presently, Traftools Inc. provides three services: RouteInform(TM), AlternaRoute(TM) and Real-Time Traffic Maps(TM).

RouteInform(TM) provides responsive driving directions that deliver the most up-to-date, shortest time paths to destinations. Since RouteInform(TM) takes into its calculations real-time traffic information on all major roadways (Real-Time Traffic Maps) it has the ability to optimize current travel times for the entire area. Therefore, RouteInform(TM) never assigns all drivers onto one particular route and it avoids further congesting any one particular freeway or roadway by simultaneously minimizing all travel times for all major roadways.

AlternaRoute(TM) provides alternate traffic-responsive driving directions of typical daily trips that are sent to drivers' mobile device with Internet access or SMS services. Users enter typical trip origin and destination including day of week, departure time, and a few other pieces of information. Then, about 15-20 minutes before the trip time everyday, AlternaRoute(TM) will check traffic conditions along the normal travel route and send information to tell users whether the typical route is alright to use as well as the estimated travel time for the particular situation. If there is an accident, incident or other event affecting traffic on the travel route, AlternaRoute(TM) will automatically find a new travel route (shortest time path) and inform the user.

Real-Time Traffic Maps are a free set of maps based on geographical information systems with real-time traffic information completely updated every 5-15 minutes. The information is available on all major roadways - not just freeways - and it is constantly verified against real-time traffic sensor data, law enforcement reports, and other available sources.

These services are currently available for San Diego County and will be available for the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles by the middle of October and the end of November, respectively. Using these services is easy. Free trials are available by signing up at www.routeinform.com.

About Traftools
Traftools is a traffic information firm headquartered in Los Angeles. The company has developed the Traftools Traffic Information Engine(TM) with the ability to forecast real-time traffic information on all major roadways in an urban area. More information is available at the Traftools website, www.traftools.com and at www.routeinform.com.

     
   President
   Traftools, Inc.
   North Hollywooe,    CA,    USA
   877-5485803 (phone)
   dan@traftools.com
   www.traftools.com