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Traffic jams no longer problem for drivers

11 May 2015 [10:45] - TODAY.AZ

/By AzerNews/

By Vusala Abbasova

The Azerbaijani Culture and Tourism Ministry has started to use a new method which keeps drivers informed about traffic jams on the road, said Gabil Abbasov, the deputy head at Ministry’s equipment and software department.

The new method involves the use of FM radio channels, which will allow traffic jams to be interactively displayed on the electronic map GoMap.az.

GoMap.az is a single-line Smart Search System that finds and draws the best route of more than 120, 000 objects in the country. GoMap.az was created by SINAM Company by request of the Culture and Tourism Ministry.

"The new method of work in the navigation system is applied by SINAM. As it is known, the transmission of GPS data stream is carried out either through the Internet or by means of SMS, which is costly. Therefore, the new method has been used for data transmission, which involves the use of FM-channels. So, the flow of information goes via a radio channel, which has virtually no cost," Abbasov said.

Identifying traffic jams in practice is carried out by means of car radios, according to the head of the department. The interval of traffic jams is determined in the case when car flow becomes less dense.

"Thus, staying in a car on a particular part of the road for a certain time already means that there is traffic jam. All information about traffic jams on the roads will be automatically displayed on the election map," said Abbasov.

Currently there is tracking software of traffic jams which was developed in Azerbaijan by the Center of Intellectual Transport Management. The Center was founded on October, 26 in 2007. The Center has introduced the software for mobile phones via which the driver or passenger may get information about the state of traffic in Baku in 2012.

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