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Originally Posted by erick
Agreed, thanks Gary.
Yes for bigger cities with peak hour (++!) traffic and roadworks, live traffic reporting and being taken into account by the unit in calculating routing, would be very useful. All mine does is "shortest", "fastest", "toll-free" etc. I think you have to get into mid-range and up for this live traffic feature?
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Hi Eric,
The stumbling block here in Australia for live traffic reporting would undoubtedly
be regulatory and the massive investment in infrastructure and human resource
required. It is similar to cable pay TV here. The entrants into those markets
even in the two largest Australian cities found it tough going simply because of
recouping the massive costs of infrastructure rollout.
I would image the economics of live traffic reporting would confine it to
Sydney, Melbourne and possibly Brisbane. These cities aren't the size of Tokyo's
or London's or LA's, but then again, I would personally prefer they weren't.
There is a kind of irony in that to afford live traffic reporting you need to grow
your cities population to the point that there are enough subscribers, at which
point all those people have brought about the traffic jams and the demand
for live traffic reporting.
Best Regards
Gary