Mobile Millennium Launches on November 10

On November 10, UC Berkeley and Nokia Research Center of Palo Alto announced the launch of Mobile Millennium in a press event celebrating the release of free software that turns cellular devices into mobile traffic probes providing real time information on traffic flow and travel times. It marked a new phase of the project in which the public will use the system.

Heading the research teams are CEE Professor Alexandre Bayen and Quinn Jacobson, research leader at Nokia Research Center.

"With this pilot, the San Francisco Bay Area becomes the starting point for the growth of a new cyberinfrastructure system based upon data provided by users," says Bayen. "Eventually, anyone is the country will be able to download the free software to transmit and receive traffic data and participate in the creation of a new traffic information system for their city or community."

See www.traffic.berkeley.edu to download the software.

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Leaders of the Mobile Millennium partnership launch a pilot traffic-information system based on anonymous GPS data from participating members of the public.

L-R Thomas West, director of UC Berkeley's California Center for Innovative Transportation; Quinn Jacobson, lead scientist at Nokia Research Center; Harry Voccola, senior vice president of government and industry relations at NAVTEQ; Randell Iwasaki, chief deputy director of Caltrans; Alexandre Bayen, professor of civil and environmental engineering, UCB; and Henry Tirri, Head of Nokia Research Center.