Comments on: Traffic is a routing problem http://jayunit.net/2008/02/28/traffic-is-a-routing-problem/ code plus science for great victories Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:17:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Joe http://jayunit.net/2008/02/28/traffic-is-a-routing-problem/#comment-3 Joe Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:26:00 +0000 http://jayunit.net/2008/04/01/traffic-is-a-routing-problem#comment-3 It's funny you should mention an ad-hoc network for GPS devices in cars. Back at RIT I took Ad-Hoc Networking with Prof. Alan Kaminski. One of our common discussion topics was using small mesh networks in cars traveling in "close" proximity to provide mostly real time traffic data. I was surprised that we never thought of your third point in our discussions. We were so focused on the real time data that we never even thought of recording traffic data from previous trips to estimate how busy the roads were likely to be. It’s funny you should mention an ad-hoc network for GPS devices in cars.

Back at RIT I took Ad-Hoc Networking with Prof. Alan Kaminski. One of our common discussion topics was using small mesh networks in cars traveling in "close" proximity to provide mostly real time traffic data.

I was surprised that we never thought of your third point in our discussions. We were so focused on the real time data that we never even thought of recording traffic data from previous trips to estimate how busy the roads were likely to be.

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