Whenever you are stuck in traffic, you would likely wish that there would be some way you could make the time go faster. But, the good news is that technology is now making things easier for people to combat heavy traffic on the road.
As reported by Bbc.com, the internet of moving things are now making it easier for traffic jams to move along and combat congestion on the road. The internet of moving things work on getting the traffic jam moving for cars, buses, bikes, trains, and planes. Hence, heavy traffic everywhere is eliminated in ways never thought of before. Thanks to technology, things seem to become better for those who are always on the road.
The accidents on the road are avoided in a lot of ways so long as the technology move along the vehicles in inexplicit ways. Chief executive of Urban Engines, a specialist in urban mobility data, Shiva Shivakumar, explained further how the internet of moving things, saying:
"The internet of moving things is giving us whole new sets of data.Delivery companies, taxis, travel cards, smartphones, and connected cars are all pushing movement data to the cloud which we can then mash up with real-world maps to create a space/time engine."
The internet of moving things can go so far as to Asia and South America. This type of technology would work in Singapore to Sao Paulo. This means that the internet of moving things would work in discovering ways how to clear heavy traffic in new roads never before discovered by this technology.
Mapping firm, "Here," caters to a similar industry as the internet of moving things. Vice president, Aaron Dannenbring, explained how the dynamics as to how "Here" works. He said:
"But we also need a dynamic map that reflects everything that's happening on the road. So by connecting other vehicles to our cloud platform we can capture how the traffic situation is changing."
