How Google Maps calculates traffic?

We All Love Google Maps, It’s help us to find new places​ in cities and it also shows us Best Route, save our couple hours from Traffic. But did you know how Google calculates traffic and then show you blue and red lines on your google map app?

So Google Maps bases its traffic views and faster-route recommendations on two different kinds of information:
1. Historic Data
2. Real-Time Data

Historical data is the average time it takes to travel a particular section of the road at specific times on specific days.

Real-Time Data is sent by smartphones (GPS) that report how fast cars are moving right then. When Smartphone users turn on their Google Maps app with GPS location enabled, the phone sends back bits of data, anonymously, to Google that lets the company know how fast their cars are moving.

Google Maps continuously combines the data coming in from all the cars on the road and sends it back by way of those colored lines on the traffic layers.

Historical data are important because it’s hard to acquire enough real-time information to make traffic forecasts. Think of the complications involved. There aren’t that many people with smartphones driving any given road at a given moment, and not all of them will have enabled their data-sharing software.

In addition, some of the phones will be red herrings with respect to traffic. Some, for example, will be in the pockets of walkers or in the baskets of bicycles. Others might be in a car that has pulled over or is looking for a parking spot.

When you plug a destination into your smartphone, the program’s first estimate of travel time is based on this historical information. Only then does it begin to add in information from users traveling your route right now.

Hence by using realtime data from smartphones and historic data, google maps is able to show traffic situations and faster route recommendations.

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