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.
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