07.11.2008 18:51 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Mobile Millenium project promises to track traffic with cellphones

Filed under: Cellphones, GPS, TransportationUC Berkeley has been working on using cellphones to track traffic for some time now, first under the the decidedly less expansive Mobile Century project, and now under its new Mobile Millennium project, which has the backing of Nokia, NAVTEQ, and others. It actually first kicked off earlier this year, but it looks like it's now about to take another big step forward, with the researchers set to open things up to the general public -- or the general public in Northern California, at least. The idea here is to collect data from folks with GPS-equipped cellphon

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