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Mobile apps to help I-70 travelers plan, avoid traffic |
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Saturday, November 19, 2011 07:24 |
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By CADDIE NATH, SUMMIT DAILY NEWS
Stuck in traffic? There's an app for that.
Or, at least, there will be, Colorado Department of Transportation officials say.
CDOT is preparing to commission the development of a smartphone application that will not only alert drivers to traffic conditions, delays, road conditions and potential travel times, but will provide them with specials and deals for places where they can eat, kill time and even spend the night while waiting for the roads to clear up.
Transportation officials hope to take what might eventually be a statewide application for a test drive on the Interstate 70 mountain corridor next year.
“What's really unique about the app is that we hope to have more predictive information on it,” CDOT spokeswoman Stacey Stegman said. “In the past we've just been able to show you what's going on real time. (Now) we're gathering all this historical data to say, ‘If I left at this time, it will take me an hour.' … At least, people can have better information to plan their travel.”
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