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You Already Own the Next Most Important Transportation Planning Tool
Your cell phone may provide the insight planners need to develop more efficient roads.
Kyle Ward’s epiphany came the morning he realized the local traffic guy on TV had more information than he did.
"I was actually getting ready for work," says Ward, a transportation engineer with the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization in Raleigh, North Carolina. “And I was looking at the TV, watching our local news traffic guy tell us about 'there’s congestion here, it’s good here.' I’m sitting there going 'he’s got way more sensors than the DOT does. How is he getting all this information?'"