Tom Tom City extends to Scotland 21 | 07 | 2016
GLASGOW HAS BECOME the first Scottish city to be incorporated into TomTom City, a traffic portal that provides live traffic and travel information. Glasgow is one of 25 cities worldwide to be included in the latest expansion.
The portal showcases the extensive range of traffic information available on a city by city basis and provides a platform to connect traffic authorities, businesses and drivers to jointly manage mobility.
TomTom City launched in April this year with 25 cities — including London — and so far proved popular, with Istanbul receiving the most visits overall.
In addition to Glasgow, other European cities included in the latest expansion include Manchester, Madrid, Turin, Warsaw, Frankfurt, Helsinki and Lisbon. Elsewhere around the world, Melbourne, Wellington, Johannesburg and Austin, Texas have also been added.
The latest expansion means more than 30 million additional people can now benefit from the service.
“It’s great to extend TomTom City to a further 25 cities, giving even more drivers and traffic managers essential insights into the real-time traffic situation,” Ralf-Peter Schäfer, head of traffic at TomTom, said.
“This is a further step in our mission to help reduce delays for all drivers and paving the way to smarter cities. Using data from more than 450 million devices globally, we are creating services that will help cities and connected cars work together to optimise the road network for everyone.”
As the number of connected vehicles on the road increases over the coming years with the emergence of semi- and highly-automated driving, TomTom City will offer new ways to manage city mobility. Drivers and professionals involved in traffic management can make smarter decisions to avoid delays on the road and reduce congestion for everyone.
TomTom City is accessible from any internet enabled computer, tablet or smartphone and provides freely accessible content showing live traffic status and incidents and other driver-based information in cities.
Key Features in TomTom City
Real Time Traffic Status
TomTom City aims to give a quick view of the current traffic condition in the city. The status indicators show the current average speed observed in the city compared to average speed when there is no congestion; a congestion barometer showing relative congestion compared to a free-flowing period; and a snapshot that shows the number of road closures, construction areas and accidents currently in the city. In addition, TomTom City also shows the traffic incidents on a map, and the traffic flow (speed) on a map. All Real Time Traffic information on TomTom City is updated every minute.
Delay Hotspots
TomTom City shows the top congestion bottlenecks recorded in the recent quarterly period. The information is presented as a summary for ‘All Day’ and separately for morning and afternoon peak periods to reflect the periodical traffic conditions in cities. Summary information is presented on a map view and each hotspot can be selected individually to see road segment delay details.
Road Event Reporter
This new web-based tool will help road authorities and other professional operators to inform millions of road users in minutes about events that are affecting the road network and its traffic flows via the TomTom Traffic service. With a few clicks a road authority can report road closures, road works, accidents and other disruptions that are affecting traffic in their local area, now, as well as those planned in the future.
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Jim McGill