The caller can then request a major road, get details of a specific incident, or request a different city. BeVocal also provides Driving Directions, Business Finder, and Weather as part of the 511 Travel offering. BeVocal enables telecom carriers, state agencies, and local agencies to provide traveler information in a cost-effective and efficient manner. For consumers, they meet the demand for greater personal safety, more personalized features and increased communication convenience. For network operators, location-based services help differentiate service portfolios, improve network efficiency and create greater pricing flexibility to address discrete market segments.
Callers can hear details of any specified incident.
Future 511 functionality will include local transit and commuter rail schedules. Technology BeVocal's 511 Travel incorporates location data when it is available from carriers to assume an initial location. Since Americans spend 500 million hours per week in their cars and cell phone usage is increasing by 40 percent annually , it's an enormous and fast- growing market. According to Goldman Sachs, people in North America spend a combined 26 billion passenger-hours annually in their vehicles and up to 80 percent of cellular phone calls are originated from within an automobile. More than 104 million Americans now have wireless telephone service, according to the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.