Posted on 09/30/2010 10:14:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
The traffic version of Willard Scott and Al Roker will be coming soon to the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway.
Motorists on the state’s two biggest highways will be provided high-tech traffic "forecasts" to alert them about potential bottlenecks before they happen. Using complex computer models that have been said to predict traffic flows with up to 93 percent accuracy, the Turnpike Authority plans to put its new "Traffic Prediction Tool" into use early next year.
Drivers would see the forecasts on existing highway message signs or via e-mail or text. Motorists get real-time alerts now, but the traffic forecast has the ability to predict congestion before it happens, based on traffic patterns detected by transponders and road sensors, as well as historical traffic patterns.
The highway agency has already run live models of the forecasts, with encouraging results.
"We’ve found that on the Turnpike, we can forecast 10 minutes in advance with 90 percent accuracy," said Brian Gorman, the authority’s director of technology. "On the Parkway, we’ve been able to forecast 10 minutes out with 93 percent accuracy."
The technology is already in use in Singapore and Stockholm.
Steve Carrellas, the New Jersey representative of the National Motorists Association driving rights group, was glad to hear the technology is coming to the Turnpike and Parkway.
"Information is good," he said. "Better information is better."
Traveling between New Jersey and his hometown in Rhode Island, Carrellas found real-time information on Interstate 95 in Connecticut to be useful, letting him know the exits where traffic was backed up and giving him the information to make choices.
The Turnpike Authority entered a $652,440 contract with En Pointe Technological Sales Inc. of California for licensing and a year of technical support.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
The state has massive bankrupting debt and they are going to do this? So much for Christie being a conservative.
Check out the nest of Rats this guy is connected to:
CEO and Only Registered Board Member:
Mr. Attiazaz Din
Chief Executive Officer
Age: 57
http://watchdog.net/contrib/90245/attiazaz_din
Political contributions disclosed by campaign committees to the Federal Election Commission, sorted by name, zip code and employer. The data, from the FEC, covers the years 1979 through 2008.
Candidates
Attiazaz Din
$1,000 to Thomas Harkin, Citizens For Harkin on October 18, 2000
$500 to Barbara Boxer, Friends Of Barbara Boxer on November 2, 1998
Attiazaz Din, En Pointe Technologies
$2,000 to Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton For Us Senate Committee Inc from June 30, 1999 to April 28, 2000
Attiazaz Din, En Pointe Technology
$1,000 to Tim Johnson, Tim Johnson For South Dakota Inc on June 14, 2001
Attiazaz Din, Business Manager, En Pointe
$2,000 to Linda Sánchez, Committee To Elect Linda Sanchez from March 5, 2002 to October 16, 2002
Attiazaz Din, Executive, Enpoint Technology
$1,000 to Sheila Jackson-Lee, Sheila Jackson Lee For Congress on June 26, 2005
Committees
Attiazaz Din
$1,000 to Citizens For Harkin on October 18, 2000
$1,000 to Campbell For Senate on June 30, 2000
$500 to Friends Of Barbara Boxer on November 2, 1998
Attiazaz Din, En Pointe
$500 to Bonior For Congress on August 13, 2000
Attiazaz Din, En Pointe Technologies
$1,000 to Torricelli For U S Senate Inc on May 7, 2002
$2,000 to Steve Horn For Congress from October 25, 1998 to October 7, 2000
$1,000 to Schweitzer For Us Senate on September 25, 2000
$2,000 to Hillary Rodham Clinton For Us Senate Committee Inc from June 30, 1999 to April 28, 2000
Attiazaz Din, En Pointe Technology
$1,000 to Tim Johnson For South Dakota Inc on June 14, 2001
Attiazaz Din, Business Manager, En Pointe
$2,000 to Committee To Elect Linda Sanchez from March 5, 2002 to October 16, 2002
Attiazaz Din, Executive, Enpoint Technology
$1,000 to Sheila Jackson Lee For Congress on June 26, 2005
Attiazaz Din, Chief Executi, Enpointe Technologies
$2,500 to Campaign For Our Country on June 15, 2006
http://www.campaignforourcountry.com/
Investing in the Grassroots
Accompanying efforts to elect Democratic candidates is John Kerry’s pledge to use Campaign For Our Country to help build and expand the Democratic Party nationally. Millions of Americans wish to remain involved in the fight for a better future. CFOC is committed to building on the foundation that remains from the unprecedented Democratic grassroots efforts in 2004 and 2006, working with Democratic activists and leaders at all levels, and in all regions, to strengthen the party’s capacity to organize at the grassroots on a year-round basis.
What a joke. Does nobody do any homework.
In DFW we had flight status text billboards.
Some idiot had a wreck because he was looking at the billboards.
That forced DFW to turn them off.
I wager $652,440 My prediction will have a better than 93% accuracy.
But seriously, to see how bad traffic is going to be on the NJ turnpike, all they have to do is count the number of ^@!#& Pennsylvania drivers that get on at the entrance ramps, because you know every one of them will eventually be in the left lane driving under the speed limit causeing massive backups behind them. So the more Pa. drivers there are, the slower the turnpike will be moving and again I wager $652,440 My prediction will have a better than 93% accuracy.
So let me get this straight ...
They will be texting me?
Great. So I will either be pulled over for using my cellphone or get into an accident because I was reading that text.
Only in NJ - lol
Not sure, but this may have been in the works for a longer time.............
This also includes CELLPHONE TEXT MESSAGES!.................
Follow the $$$$$ and you’re sure to find a ‘Rat....................
Texting?? And yet, in many states it is illegal to drive and text. Geniuses.
NJ made it illegal to text while driving years ago. No they are spending money to send text msgs about traffic conditions to drivers? See my tag line....
It’s pretty simple really - Friday night in the summer the Bennies clog the Parkway to go “Down the shore.” They clog it all up again on Monday morning.
Bennies?................
;;TEXT: NJ TURNPIKE COMMISSION;;
-0600-2200 HOURS DAILY TRAFFIC DUE TO ACCIDENTS WHILE READING TEXT ALERTS. NEXT ALERT WILL BE WHILE YOU ARE READING THIS TEXT.... GUARANTEED BACK UP IN YOUR EXACT LOCATION...
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
LOL!
We get traffic just from people reading overhead traffic warning signs.
That’s it! I’m working from home from now on.
NJ Turnpike had a billboard with a hot chick wearing only a fur. It was good advertising, I wonder why it was taken down.
Bennies
NJ slang for someone not permantent long term resident of
shore towns
People from New Yuck or Filthadelphia who come there on
weekends/summers to get drunk....
We call the Yankees................
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