Community Traffic: a technology for the next generation car navigation.

The paper presents the NaviExpert's Community Traffic technology, an interactive, community-based car navigation system. Using data collected from its users, Community Traffic offers services unattainable to earlier systems. On the one hand, the current traffic data are used to recommend the best routes in the navigation phase, during which many potentially unpredictable traffic-delaying and traffic-jamming events, like unexpected roadworks, road accidents, or diversions, can be taken into account and thereby successfully avoided. On the other hand, a number of distinctive features, like immediate location of various traffic dangers, are offered. Using exclusively real-life data, provided by NaviExpert, the paper presents two illustrative case studies concerned with experimental evaluation of solutions to computational problems related to the community-based services offered by the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]