"Few things are more irritating than leaving a busy road to avoid a traffic jam, only to find that everyone else has had the same idea and you are stuck behind yet another queue.
Now a smart electronic map has been developed to help drivers find the best route, using information on nearby roads together with the day of the week, time, weather conditions and the speed of traffic on nearby roads. Crucially, the software can use road configurations it already knows about to predict how traffic on unfamiliar ones will behave."
It is ClearFlow, a model being developed at Microsoft Research.
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