Highways Agency Delivers Route 2.0

摘要

The Highways Agency is working with Google to make traffic data available for use within the Google Maps traffic feature. The traffic feature creates a colour-coded layer of the average speeds on England's motorways and major A road network onto the existing Google Map facility with different colours indicating the current speed of traffic. The Highways Agency provides its traffic information to Google in a Datex II format, which is a European standard developed specifically for road data information exchange. The Datex organisation provides tools to convert the data model into an XML schema. The system provides real-time traffic information and predictions based on past conditions, helping motorists to plan their journeys ahead to avoid congestion.