Author—Mary Beth Lowell – Communications Manager

I95corridorThere is a fascinating story today in USA Today on traffic technology and a new way that traffic flow will be measured for awhile on I-95 from New Jersey to North Carolina.

According to the article, "the data will be collected from more than 800,000 GPS devices on delivery vans, trucks, taxicabs and other service vehicles; from sensors embedded in the roadways; from toll tag data such as EZ Pass, and from cellphones." Our traffic partner, Inrix, is collecting the data under  contract.

The main benefit, of course, is that drivers are going to have more information available now on traffic flow, congestion and incidents.

With traffic and gas prices the way they are now, it seems that this advance in technology could really help many of us who can, albeit begrudgingly, call ourselves road warriors.

What do you think?