IBm has developed new technology that can help reduce
traffic jams. They have teamed up with a researching team in Lyon France to
help them. Both companies want to develop a system that would let traffic operators
try and reduce traffic congestion and make traffic run smoother. They would use real time data to determine
the traffic pattern and help determine what traffic operators would need to do.
IBM has called this system “Decision
support system optimizer this system can
detect if they are any traffic incident and suggest the best solution to solve
a problem. For example there was a traffic congestion in the city and a ambulance
was coming in to the nearest hospital. With this new technology and real time
data a traffic operator could detour the lights and create a new pattern of
traffic which would make it easier for the ambulance to get to the hospital and
everybody else to get where they need to get. IBM has put out a statement that
said” the system can estimate drive times and traffic patterns more accurately.
A statement by the tech company in France
said “ plotting this analytics technology will help the city anticipate and
avoid many traffic jams before they happen and lessen their impact on citizens.
This is
a global issue can be a great help to a lot of countries out there. Traffic
does cause a lot of congestion and headache. With this new technology headed by
IBM it should help easy traffic in areas where they are very congested. They
will probably test this out in France first and see how well it does then the
new technology will probably go globally.
http://mashable.com/2012/11/14/ibm-technology-traffic/
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