What this means is if you work in downtown Atlanta, you can look at the Internet and decide how long it will take you to get home. Visitors to Atlanta can find information about traffic from Hartsfield International Airport to wherever they're going in the city. Knowing where heavy congestion is can help people plan their travel times. Data gathered from this advancing technology in traffic prediction can be packaged for many uses. For example, if a company is considering moving to a particular area of a city, representatives should study traffic flow through that section of town.
Courier services can plan their routes according to traffic patterns.
For the long term, traffic signals can be better coordinated to accommodate the flow of traffic. Over the past 10 years, we've realized how we can take advantage of technology to measure traffic better and to get to accidents quicker so they don't mess up the freeway for as long. With the ever-increasing number of cars on the road, improvements in traffic engineering are in demand. Fortunately for drivers, transportation engineers are ahead of the game. Driving With the Lights On Jean Ann Cantore is editor of the Texas Techsan magazine and a free-lance writer in Lubbock, Texas.