The users, which are growing in number due to Android’s popularity and the number of people navigating with mobile phones, provide a crowdsourced solution to displaying traffic information for rural areas and smaller roads. In contrast, Google primarily collects traffic data from Google Maps and Google Navigation users who share location data. Google Maps bases its traffic views and faster-route recommendations on two different kinds of information: 1. As a result of the expense, until recently only major cities had accurate real-time traffic information. The Department of Transportation (DOT) relies heavily on expensive traffic sensors that are embedded in highways for its traffic information. In addition to adding 130 new cities, Google also noted they were improving coverage in many international locations including: Canada, China, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
However, yesterday Google launched a massive expansion of the feature adding 130 new locations including the smaller towns of Kalamazoo, Michigan and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Although Google Maps initially launched its live traffic feature in 2008, until recently the program was limited to larger metropolitan areas.
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