Google Maps
Google Maps has helped commuters to travel to new places, explore new cities, and monitor daily traffic. In early June 2019, Google Maps released a new feature to enable users to monitor bus travel times in 10 major cities across India, as well as get live updates from Indian Railways. The feature, live in Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pune, and Surat, makes use of Google's live traffic data and public bus schedules to calculate accurate travel times and delays. The algorithm supporting the feature learns from the sequence of bus positions over time. This data is further combined with the speed of cars on the bus's path at the time of the commute. The data is also used to capture the unique ...
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