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Bay Area motorists with GPS-equipped cell phones can tap into new technology designed to help them avoid traffic jams. UC Berkeley and Nokia phone company researchers late Monday night rolled out new software that can be downloaded for free onto cell phones and used to get quicker and more accurate traffic information to plan driving routes. The software turns cell phones into mobile traffic investigations. As a motorist drives along, his mobile phone will automatically transmit information about his driving speed, direction and location. Centralized computers will collect and organize the data from him and other drivers, then send back traffic updates to cell phones to show motorists where to avoid gridlock and where to find flowing lanes. Early participants initially will receive information from the existing 511.org traffic-information system, but the information will expand as more people sign up. Researchers said the system — the first of its kind — has promise to make traffic monitoring more effective worldwide, saving time, fuel and exasperation. “This can give better information to drivers to improve their travel planning,” Alexandre Bayen, a UC Berkeley assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and co-leader of the project, said at a Monday morning media briefing on campus. “As we have entered the era of the mobile Internet, cellular devices are providing us with ubiquitous sensing capabilities that will rapidly revolutionize location-based services.” Eventually, the software could be linked with people’s computerized calendars so motorists could turn on their cell phones in the morning to get advice on the fastest route to work or a first appointment. UC Berkeley and Nokia are starting slowly to roll out the pilot software developed in the private-public Mobile Millennium Project with financial help from Caltrans and the U.S. Department of Transportation. To prevent a system overload, software project organizers will limit sign-ups to 100 people a…
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