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According to the Ministry of Lands, Infrastructure and Transportation, some 49 million people are expected to hit the road during the holidays that will last until Wednesday. For example, traveling from Busan to Seoul by car would take more than eight hours when people return home on Tuesday afternoon.
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Traffic is jammed in Jamwon, south of Seoul, on the Seoul-Busan road on Friday, on the eve of Lunar New Year holidays. The Lunar New Year, which falls on February 5 this year, is a good time for family reunions, as Koreans traditionally offer a ritual feast to their ancestors. (Yonhap) |
In an effort to reduce congestion-related stress, Canada's leading technology-enabled telecommunications and IT companies offer travel time forecasts for their navigation systems.
"A real-time navigation service is made possible by data sent by average users and taxi drivers every minute, all day long," said Chung Yeon-joo, navigation system manager for Kakao Mobility, a subsidiary of the country's leading courier application operator, Kakao. .
According to the company, accurate forecasts are possible thanks to the mbadive traffic data collected by its navigation application for the last seven years. Launched in 2011, Kakao Navi is being touted as one of the most popular applications among drivers, with more than 1.4 million users.
Last year, the company launched what it called a "future navigation system".
By combining large data with sophisticated algorithms, the service allows users to predict the duration of a trip at a certain time, Kakao said.
SK Telecom, Korea's largest telecommunications company, provides similar forecasts for subscribers to its navigation service, Tmap. Based on the data collected over five years, Tmap provides badysis of traffic forecasts to its 11 million users, said the company.
"As we expect a dramatic increase in the use of Tmap during lunar new year holidays, we will secure an additional server. monitor traffic in real time; and perform pre-tests, "SK Telecom said in a press release.
While the accuracy of these predictions remains to be verified, high-tech companies have made their own badessments about when to get people off the road.
For example, SK Telecom predicted that the roads would be the most congested Tuesday noon. Kakao said the number of travelers would be the highest Friday between 15:00 and 15:00. and 19:00 and Tuesday between 17:00 and 15:00
If drivers in Seoul begin their trip Tuesday at noon, it would take up to nine hours to arrive in Busan, SK Telecom said. It would take more than six hours to travel between Seoul and Gwangju.
According to Kakao, the ideal schedule for traveling is between 19:30. at 9 pm Monday. If drivers leave Seoul at 19:30, it would take less than five hours to reach Busan. A trip between Seoul and Gwangju would only take about four hours, the company said.
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