Traffic reporting

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Traffic reporting is the near

• Ford SYNC and Toyota Entune
  and much of Europe, South America, and Africa.
• Google Traffic works by crowdsourcing the GPS information from phone users. By calculating the speed of users along a stretch of road, Google is able to generate a live traffic map.^[1] Its subsidiary, Waze
  , also allows users to report directly via a smartphone app.
• TomTom Traffic uses crowd-sourced data from mobile phone users, along with data from traditional sources such as induction loops and traffic cameras.
• Monitoring police radio frequencies. Some radio stations have agreements with states' highway patrol that permit a direct connection with a law enforcement computer. This enables real-time information gathering of the latest accident reports to highway patrol divisions ^{[citation needed]}.
• Many areas have
  helicopters to overfly accident scenes and other areas of high traffic volume. For example, by the company Global Traffic Network
  .
• Traffic camera
• crowd sourcing
  as its primary means of providing real-time traffic updates to subscribers. The service is delivered free of charge.
• RoadPal
  crowd-sourced
  data from mobile users as well as the social media to provide users with traffic information of places of interest to them.
• Roadside
  Trafficmaster
  have a network of sensors on motorways and trunk roads in the UK).

Methods of transmitting information

• GPS units (see Integration of traffic data with navigation systems)
• Smartphones
• Radio via voice
  TA
• Electronic road signs
• 5-1-1 traffic information phone line or similar.
• Television and web

Providers

• Total Traffic & Weather Network is the largest provider of real time broadcast traffic information in the United States. TTWN's broadcast traffic information appears on hundreds of radio and television stations as well on a multitude of automotive and gps navigation systems throughout the United States. TTWN traffic reports reach approximately 125M commuters per month. In 2011, TTWN acquired then competitor Metro Networks for $125M, about one-tenth of the company's $1B sale price to Westwood One a decade earlier. In 2006, TTWN partnered with BMW to become the first company in the United States to bring a product to the consumer market that displayed real time traffic information on an in-vehicle navigation system. TTWN's parent company is iHeart Media Networks.
• Nokia Maps. XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio
  use NAVTEQ data to show traffic information on navigation systems.

• Tele Atlas, a subsidiary of TomTom. delivers digital maps and other dynamic content for navigation and location-based services, including personal and in-car navigation systems, and provides data used in a wide range of mobile and Internet map applications.
• Google Maps uses a variety of governmental and private traffic reporting organizations to provide information, along with its Waze subsidiary, which uses crowdsourcing to provide observed traffic conditions.

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