New webpage helping drivers tackle Adelaide traffic
With the annual Clipsal 500 road closures causing headaches for Adelaide motorists, a new webpage is helping drivers negotiate the traffic.
Local engineers have come up with a way to help drivers beat the crowds with a webpage that calculates delays in real time.
It allows motorists to add up the various time delays to reach their destination.
Yellow lines show a two minute delay, orange a four minute delay and red lines mean more than eight minutes of extra travel time.
“So if you see red, avoid,” Mark Shotton from the Traffic Management Centre said.
It also shows roadworks, road closures and accidents.
It took engineers 18 months to develop the software behind the webpage, which gives updates every 30 seconds.
Boxes at more than 200 intersections across the city detect Bluetooth signals inside cars.
“As they travel past one point on the network to the next point, it’s calculated how long its taken them to get through,” Mr Shotton said.
The system cannot collect personal data from mobile phones and any signals tracked are wiped the next day.
The real-time data is an Australian first, and both Victoria and New South Wales have already flagged an interest in buying the software for themselves.
The map is available from the South Australian Government’s website.
