Case Study: Traffic Guidance, Social Features Drive Waze Growth

With its great success in Singapore, a GPS based system like the iCall seemed like the perfect fit for Taiwan Taxi. The company had plans of expanding its membership to 20,000 and believed the iCall would help it achieve this goal. Unfortunately, the iCall did not bring the success that Taiwan Taxi hoped it would which left management questioning why the system worked so well in one country and not the other. The answer to this lies in the cultural differences and a lack of understanding of the Taiwan labor force that is currently working in the taxi industry. In order to successfully implement the iCall in Taiwan, management needs to tie value to the system in order to gain support from its employees and the

The driver should take residential areas in mind when using the Waze app for directional support in order to purposefully avoid affecting the normal residence life. The Waze app affects at least three classes of people. The first group is the residents because their life is severely affected by Waze. Since Waze guided drivers to take shortcuts through residence areas while public infrastructures are unavailable, the traffic introduced to the roads in residence areas turns a residence road to a semi-highway. The disruption of their peacefulness and the potential dangers to the children in those area highly influence their life as residents. In other words, Waze negatively impacts them. The second group is the drivers who use the Waze app as

Instead of a distributed client-server software, the program module was designed to query on spatial databases referring to different states of the map data on different dates. Upon reading the different trip requests identified by the OSM ID pairs, the program queried different map versions according to the evaluation parameters. The query results in the form of path segments, obtained by the program from different map versions was processed according to the protocol specifications (Section \ref{protocol}). The program then compared and evaluated the total map tiles affected by the (old) route calculated by car and the (new) route calculated by the server. Upon comparison, three different categories of changes in terms of map objects from the routes are calculated as specified in Section \ref{calcmu}. These changes are considered crucial to be delivered to the autonomous car. However, only delivering these map objects as the update to the car's map data could result in inconsistencies as discussed in \citet{asahara2008locally}'s work earlier in Section \ref{cmldmu}. Hence, based on these crucial changes, their map tiles/grids are marked as 'mandatory grids' for the trip request. From the list of map tiles/grids used by the car's route and the server's route, all the map tiles/grids which have changes between the two versions are identified. Upon eliminating the mandatory grids from the total list of map tiles/grids, the 'optional grids' are identified. For evaluation purposes, the number of map objects which are updated in new version of the map data are also counted for mandatory, optional and total

designed to see the locations of the maps and how to access them through road ways

Every year there are hundreds of car accidents that are directly related to some style of electronic device distracting people in cars driving and sadly the death rate keeps increasing as more technology is developed. For many people the use of their cell phone is a way to keep in contact with their friends or business partners. This technology advancement has started a problem with people trying to multitask behind the driver’s wheel which has been shown to increase the distraction level of the driver. Most car users now own a global positioning system which does allow driver to get to their destination fast and safer but if used at the wrong time can be a major distraction and

Lyft has been one of the growing ride-sharing network in the market place that has changed the way of viewing the transportation. It generally hires the privately owned drivers for transportation which is completely different from its other ride-sharing competitors. In the case study, the way of the business functions has been highly affected as it was launched in New York City. It had to run its business using licensed driver through the City’s Taxis and Limousine Commission. It had to hire the drivers that fulfilled the host requirements such as; passing the drug test, attending driving course in every three years and finger printed. Instead of the bumpy start the business is ploughing its way to be one of the best ride-sharing network in New York City.

According to the case study, the DMV serves four million owners and operators of motor vehicles in the state’s seventeen counties (Dresang, 2012). Therefore, the end users are the motorists (the customers), who utilize the services provided by the DMV. Often, the customers (the drivers) are in constant interaction with the widget (vehicle inspections) because it is required by law rather than a choice of the user.

The Oklahoma Department of Transportation says that it uses multiple platforms for the distribution of traffic information such as public meetings, direct mailings, its website, press releases, social media, and email newsletters (“Oklahoma Department of Transportation”). However, the Oklahoma Department of Transportation does not post enough frequent traffic advisories online to inform drivers of changes and short-term lane and ramp closures as the project progresses. For example, the last modification for the list of traffic advisories was on August 21, 2015 (“Oklahoma Department of Transportation”). Frequent necessary updates relating to the West Lindsey Street Project and surrounding impacted areas are necessary to help drivers avoid traffic problems. The current traffic advisories do not mediate activity in relation to the traffic problem.

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Today, we can send information all over the world instantly; however movement and activities can be tracked through computers and cell phones. With new and improved technology, it can improve lives, increase public safety, build wealth and promote efficiencies in how we use scarce resources. Researchers,

The modern GPS can be very useful if someone gets lost or if they don’t know where they are going but it also has some downside. The GPS could give away the users information by turning on the location so

There are a several reasons why roads have become increasingly congested, including the following: The real cost of driving has fallen because motor cars, and even petrol, are relatively cheaper than they

You’re officially on your first Uber ride once you accept the rider request. Your Uber partner app will update to show you directions to your rider. You can also set the app to use a navigation app on your phone, such as Waze, Google Maps, or Apple Maps. In that case, you’ll get a pop-up message saying “switching to Waze” or your map app in 10 seconds.

Since operating 7 years ago, Uber has seen a great business as alternative for taxi. In 2016, Uber service is accessible in 66 countries and more than 507 cities internationally. The rise of Uber become people favorite choice especially the one living in the urban center. Besides, the low rate charge for Uber also become one of the main reasons why people prefer to use its service rather than the traditional taxis. In some cases, taxi charges are quite high even though the distance is short but due to traffic jam, the duration waiting in a taxi to arrive may feel longer. Even so, some taxi drivers also have the tendency forgotten to switch on the distance meter on their taxi thus charged the passenger for an unreasonable price. Moreover, it

From the survey conducted reveals that by using Activity Logger we can keep track to the vehicle. Most of the parents like to track their children activities when they are driving their vehicle. And also, they can avoid their children from rash driving as they result to be away from accidents. Using such devices may also alert them to their activities. Most of the responders are likely to track their location of the vehicle. so we can conclude that by taking survey all the responders were positive towards activity logger. So this is a successful device keep track of the vehicle & driver’s