Today, the Nokia Research Center, alongside the University of California and Berkley, is launching the Mobile Millenium, a pilot project to use GPS-capable phones to report traffic conditions. The Mobile Millenium project builds from the initial Mobile Century project started last February, and could revolutionize traffic reporting. Google Mobile has some accurate traffic reporting in a few cities, which I think is based on magnetometers installed into those cities’ roads. Using existing GPS units is a considerably cheaper alternative, and will provider a broader set of data, regardless of whether or not the infrastructure is in place.
The pilot program is launching in the San Francisco Bay area, using the Nokia N95 – interested in trying it out? Go ahead and register now.
[via CN]