Archive for August, 2009
Wednesday Worst Day for Traffic in BA
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Centraldev has worked closeley with C2DataOnline and Microsoft Argentina to develop a traffic information system for Buenos Aires city that’s currently in use as a layer of MSN Maps Argentina, Microsoft’s online map application.
Our work has been the development of a Ruby on Rails web application that’s used as a backend for C2DataOnline to continuously monitor and update Buenos Aires traffic information. On the other hand, we also provide a PHP webservice that is queried during the day by MSN Maps Argentina, in order to obtain the updated traffic information.
Our last project has been the development of traffic reports to obtain statistic information about the worst traffic incidents in Buenos Aires. Analysts at Microsoft have concluded, thank to these statistic reports, interesting data about the traffic in Buenos Aires. One of the most concluding facts is that if you want to drive through Buenos Aires, Wednesday is the worst day to do it.
Buenos Aires is usually freezed by demonstrations and this data is logged to the C2 traffic system. It appears to be that demonstrators usually prefer Wednesdays for their acts. Other incidents that affect transit are reparations, accidents and fog.
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