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| Autoroute-1 facilitates differentiating applications for a range of service providers who wish to offer real-time and accurate traffic information. Examples of these providers include: navigation device manufacturers, mobile operators, and content providers. Possible applications include the following:
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| Route Planning |
| This personalized, location-based service enables users to easily receive recommendations on the best routes from their current location to their desired destination. The current traffic information allows the service to provide information as to the quickest, rather than shortest route possible.
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| Traffic Congestion Alerts |
| Subscribers for this service can be automatically alerted (using SMS/MMS or voice alerts) if they are about to run into a traffic congestion area, offering an alternative route. Using Autoroute-1, such a system has more accurate traffic information and a much wider coverage area, giving the customer a much more valuable service.
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| Smarter Navigation Systems |
| Autoroute-1 delivers the latest updated and accurate traffic information directly to the vehicle's GPS navigation system via an RDS/TMC or GPRS/UMTS channel. Once received, the information is processed and an immediate route is recommended. The user then receives a route that is the quickest, rather than the shortest, with indications of any delays along the way.
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| Dynamic Traffic Information for Media Suppliers |
| High-quality, accurate, and real-time traffic information can be used and displayed on media channels such as radio and TV stations, road message signs, commercial electronic billboards, Internet sites, and Web portals. As traffic information is considered valuable content for drivers, it is another means of providing customers with added value, and significantly enhancing the attractiveness of these channels.
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| Cellular Applications |
| Mobile operators offer a wide range of value added services based on mobility and traffic. These services provide customers with traffic information with which they can make more educated routing decisions. When receiving more detailed and accurate traffic information, customers feel that they are getting a better service.
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| Traffic Control and Planning |
| Having access to Decell’s traffic information gives traffic departments a continuous, wide-covering, and cost-effective tool for better control of traffic in real time, understanding of vehicular traffic patterns, and plans for future investments.
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