IP Communications: Relief for Holiday Travelers on the East Coast

By Calvin Azuri, TMCnet Contributor

During this Thanksgiving holiday, travelers from Maine to Florida will be able to save time and better plan their trips by taking advantage of a website that provides them with real-time traffic information and estimated drive times for roadways in and between major metropolitan areas along the East Coast.  

The website covers 15 states and 24 metropolitan areas along the I-95 corridor and offers travelers speed and congestion information on the I-95 corridor, including I-95, the beltways surrounding each major city, and all associated routes that together make up the corridor. Visitors to the web site will be able to manipulate the map to zoom to any of the 15 states and Washington D.C. 

The traffic congestion information will be presented using various color codes; green to indicate free flow, yellow for moderate congestion, red for heavy congestion, maroon for stop-and-go, and black to indicate a closed road within the coverage area.

In a press release, George Schoener, executive director of I-95 Corridor Coalition, said, "One of the Coalition's goals is to make it easy to learn about traffic conditions along the I-95 Corridor. i95travelinfo.net continues to be an important element in supporting that goal at a time when travelers along the corridor can benefit from our efforts the most."

Now visitors to the website will be able to choose from a list of predefined locations to set an origin and a destination point. The system will then calculate the estimated travel time, the regular travel time at that time of day, the distance between the two points, and a time stamp showing the time since conditions were last updated.

Currently, the content for the Long Distance Trip Planning website has been designed to be utilized without the use of mobile devices. The web site is designed for standard PC browsers, and is not formatted for mobile device usage.

Calvin Azuri is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Calvin’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Jaclyn Allard

(source: http://ipcommunications.tmcnet.com/topics/ip-communications/articles/120140-ip-communications-relief-holiday-travelers-the-east-coast.htm)

Today's Features • Voice Management Solutions Enable Greater Visibili..... • Business VoIP: SIP Trunking Helps SMBs Save Money,..... • Bluestreak Technology, Amino Communications Partne..... • Communication Improves Customer Relationship and B.....

Latest News • HP Debuts Unified System to Manage Application Lif..... • IP Communications: Relief for Holiday Travelers on..... • Trilliant Chosen by British Gas to Provide Communi..... • Yahoo Announces New Social and Local IP Communicat.....

Latest Blogs • Using Your Phone to Help with Comparison Shopping • Education and UC - Is it time? • G.722 Now Available on CounterPath's Bria iPhone C.....

Industry Resources of the Week • Mobility and the Challenges of Cloud Computing • Why SIP Makes Sense- Enabling the Evolutions of Un.....