Feb082010
A good use for Twitter: Getting I-93 traffic updates
Filed under Social media by david brooks at 12:09 pm
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation is starting a Twitter feed for I-93 traffic alerts, (http://twitter.com/nhdoti93) which makes a lot of sense (although they add sternly, “NHDOT strongly encourages motorists to use this new service responsibly” - meaning, I think, Don’t Tweet And Drive!).
They say they’ll be adding more heavily trafficked roads as time goes on, thus providing the sort of real-time traffic advice that radio-show helicopters have been trying to give for years. Very cool.
The press release assumes a relatively small amount of Twitter knowledge, as you can see:
Twitter is a widely known and accepted website that many states are using as part of their transportation management programs for notifying the public of critical traffic alerts. Twitter gives the NHDOT’s Transportation Management Center the ability to notify travelers of real-time traffic and road conditions before they encounter a congested area by sending a text message directly to phones or emails, providing an immediate one-way notification to “followers” when an event occurs.
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