Developing and Supporting High-Usage Traffic Information Mobile Apps

This paper describes the experience of the author's company in developing and supporting high-usage mobile applications providing traffic information to users. Within a time span of about 18 months the Smartphone apps have garnered over 1.2 million downloads. The company has interacted with a very engaged audience providing actionable crowdsourced data.

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  http://itswc.confex.com/itswc/WC2011/webprogram/Paper2427.html
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Intelligent Transportation Society of America. Index title: Developing and Supporting High-Usage Traffic Information Apps.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Gueziec, Andre
• Conference:
  • 18th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Orlando Florida, United States
  • Date: 2011-10-16 to 2011-10-20
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References;
• Pagination: 6p
• Monograph Title: 18th ITS World Congress, Orlando, 2011. Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traveler information systems; Computer online services; Crowdsourcing; Data collection; Floating car data; Mobile communication systems; Smartphones; Web applications
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01487114
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 18 2013 1:52PM