Travel Tokens

Problem
Everyday we all commute from home to office and most of us stuck in traffic every morning. Though we have google maps which shows busy/free routes as per the current traffic but that is not of a much help since all the important roads are kind of busy during all peak hours.

Solution

There is a way by which can reduce some traffic congestion on peak hours. The prerequisite for this is – it will work on everyday traffic routes and not on adhoc routes.

Steps,  how we can achieve it–

1.        For example a person goes from Home to Office every day as per below picture. He reach on some points during the path at specific time range. At this time interval, his mobile app (google maps) is sending his position to the cloud server.

2. Once he is sending the position data everyday, his profile can be created on the server where it will clearly defined , what  time he starts, when he reach at different points and when finally the guy reach office.(may be two months of position data should be good for initial profiling)

3.       We also have data of google maps about the busy stretch in the day

4.       With the user’s travel profiling and google’s busy stretch algorithm we can identify that what was time frame when user was in busy stretch.

5.       Similarly for all the users in that region,  profiles  will be created same way.

6.       Once we have all this data then we can say how many cars are on a particular road stretch and that result in a busy traffic(red line on google map)

7.       On the basic of this number, we can suggest all the people in that region a start time (Travel Token), say for time 7:05 AM – 20 people, 7:06 AM – 20 people, 7:08 – 30 people etc

Note:

1.       This will not always be accurate but if 80% of the traffic is daily commuters on a specific route, this will really be helpful

2.       It will always be in self learning mode where it will be refining users path/time with more recent data

Share Drive: If we would be having exact profiling of people in the regain. This app can suggest the probable car pool options, which might be too accurate to match almost same start/end times and paths.

Future :

1.       Travel token can be displayed somewhere on the car and If government approve it, anyone driving as per its token, they may get access to car pool lane or Gas rebate.

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