Traffic management in the UK

As these ‘professional’ drivers are using the road users in the UK contributing to its information pool, particularly business and commercial drivers. As these ‘professional’ drivers are using the road system more than any other sector of motorist, the regular and dependable data they collate is essential to the HD Traffic service. All TomTom LIVE satnav devices are equipped with a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module), which allows the vehicle’s position and speed to be anonymously fed back to the HD Traffic Centre. This gives accurate and regularly updated information on traffic flow across the entire road network. The data is then collated, analyzed and used for route planning.

That's TomTom, via Traffic Tehnology Their site. TomTom is in the company of Naveq/NXP or Skymeter; but I like their approach. Get the basic black box into as many vehicles as they can.

The traffic automation market is at the pivot point. The stimulus action we are looking for is a technology plan that makes the traffic bandwidth market liquid. Traffic bandwidth must be sold in units farther out in time and larger in size; and then remarketed.

There is one message this industry needs to produce to local transit districts, remember,  The rights they control today, along the roads, streets , parking spots,  and intersections, will gain utility fast as technology is added.  These companies add the technology, talk to them before you sell, but eventually do sell bandwidth in its liquid form.