GPS on Buses * South Korea & Japan - Streets ahead in smart transport
Intelligent transport systems well developed in South Korea and Japan
Seoul, South Korea -CNN, by Nicolai Hartvig -April 8, 2010: -- GPS updates South Korea's 17 million drivers with traffic updates. Faster commute times, less accidents ands pollution has been the result... Juwan Yoo was tired of calling up the old-school telephone hotline to find out when his bus would come -- and excited about the iPhone's arrival in South Korea... So the 17-year-old developed the "Seoul Bus" application, which crawls public transport Web sites to give real-time updates for all bus stops in the capital and its surrounding provinces. More than 400,000 people have downloaded the free app, Yoo told... Yoo is now affectionately known as "the high school student" to South Korean traffic researchers and officials after he ventured into intelligent transport systems (ITS)... (Photo from i.ytimg: A South Korean bus)Labels: GPS
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