Josh Crandall, created crowdsourced traffic predictions.
Reporter's Notebook
Josh Crandall, a commuter in Montclair, NJ, noticing the rise in handheld phone devices, devised a clever way to recruit his fellow passengers to tell him, and each other, about about train and bus delays. Let's interview him and get the story behind crowdsourced traffic predictors.
Are these predictions just luck, or is there something to the idea that together we can inform our fellow commuters about the best time to travel. Let's find out how CleverCommute.com has fared.
Background
Crowdsourced Traffic and Transit
What's a better place to use crowdsourcing than in the middle of an actual crowd -- specifically a crowd of commuters trying to get from Point A to Point B.
Anybody who lives in a gigantic metro area knows how inadequate centralized, helicopter-based traffic reporting is -- like when you've got theater tickets on a Friday night and you're trying to decide between the Lincoln and the Holland tunnels, and WINS is giving you traffic reports for Queens.
Josh Crandall, a commuter in Montclair, NJ, noticing the rise in handheld phone devices, devised a clever way to recruit his fellow passengers to tell him, and each other, about about train and bus delays.
There must be other examples. What technology exists, who's using it and what's on the horizon?
testing, testing... what is this?
