Yandex tracks the Kiev traffic
By Andrew Redfern @ 6th March 2008 11:00 pm
Yandex has launched “Kiev Traffic”, the first traffic monitoring service on of its kind in Ukrainian. All drivers using the service in Kiev can check traffic before hitting the road to avoid congestion.
Today Yandex.Maps shows traffic on the main routes of two capitals, Kiev and Moscow. Crowded streets with slow traffic flow are highlighted red and yellow on the map.
Moving the cursor to a highlighted segment displays duration and length of a particular congestion.
Congestions, just like natural disasters, are rated on a scale from zero to ten. Internet users in Kiev can see both the congestion rating and the Yandex traffic lights icon, which signals the degree of traffic intensity in their city, on the Yandex’s front page.
“Every morning our staffers get stuck in Kiev traffic and each evening they ponder when they can leave to avoid being stuck on the way again,” says Vyacheslav Pankratov, Director of Technologies of Yandex.Ukraine.
“We need this kind of service as much as everyone else in Kiev, who wants to save their commute time.”
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