More innovation with traffic

Continuing from my previous story about RouteGuru, wanted to also share couple of other increasingly popular traffic related innovations happening in India (incidentally, both originating from Bangalore)…

Mapunity has put together this application for the Bangalore Traffic Police. It shows live traffic information for the entire city, using the cell phone networks across the city. Depending on the presence of cellphones (and therefore, people), the map shows you how crowded/dense that area is currently.

Of course, it’s not meant to be exact or precise in terms of the number of people/vehicles on the street…but it does the job…you get a sense of how smooth the traffic flow is or isn’t currently.

And the second one, which has been around for some time now and far more publicised and popular, Commute Easy, for car & bike-pooling. The techies in Bangalore seem to be loving it!

With the phenomenal boom in cell phones in the country, and with almost every one in the urban cities carrying (at least) one cell phone, no wonder both these concepts are relying and using mobile phones to make things easy for users. Way to go!