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‘Crowd-sourced’ transport data comes to UK

22 February 2013
 

A SMARTPHONE app being launched in the UK will share real-time data on public transport journeys generated by travellers themselves.

The moovit app, already available in North America, continental Europe and Israel, collects and shares ‘crowd-sourced’ data on real-time journey speeds. The idea is that this user-generated information improves trip planning.

Moovit said that travellers automatically contribute data about their journeys simply by having the application open during...

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