Must-have traffic reports for your commute or holiday travel from Traffic.com
Written by Glenn Letham
Friday, 28 November 2008
The graphic below tells a thousand words and is a great selling feature
for the awesome Traffic.com service which provides registered users
with free traffic updates… this app is on my list of must haves,
particularly for regular commutes into Denver, trips to the airport,
and for holiday travel. you'll never be late again!
See more at traffic.com
(from NAVTEQ). Other useful travel apps that you can have on your
mobile this holiday season include Weatherbug, Worldmate, Nokia Maps,
and google maps mobile… oh, be sure you load up Goog411 information
number into your contacts to save some billing charges also! Links to
all these resources easily located via google search - happy travels!
Simply register as a user at traffic.com to plan your trips. You can
easily check drive times by entering a start and end location, the app
does the rest. Look deeper and then it starts getting very cool, particularly for commuters.
You can create and store trips that you regularly take and then have
daily email alerts sent to you to help you plan your trip or maybe
think about leaving 10 minutes earlier - hey, you may even want to take
an alternative route! I know that for myself, if I’m heading South on
I-25 to the airport, knowing the flow and condition of the Interstate
is crucial in order for me to get to the gate in time.
Having email alerts shows me the traffic flow and problem spots,
estimated travel times, mass transit delays, and even notes about
construction areas and even accidents… this is awesome!
Click on your email and you can see detailed maps of your routes of interest along with traffic times (estimated)
Using the web service, simply login and create alerts to notify you of travel times and delays along your regular commuting routes.
Your saved drives are stored online within your user profile.
You can even put Traffic.com on your desktop using one of the handy
widgets that are provided. If you’d rather have alerts sent directly to
your mobile that’s easily accomplished as well via traffic.com mobile -
point your mobile browser to http://mobi.traffic.com. See www.traffic.com to setup your free profile and start saving yoru trips and routes.
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