Dr. Gridlock checks to see whether Apple’s replacement of the Google Maps app helps commuters. ... When they run into trouble, they turn on the radio and listen for a traffic report, ...

Google announced a brand new Google Maps widget that will offer users real-time traffic information about their current location. The feature should make it even easier to manage your navigation ...

Major traffic delays heading into DC as thousands pack the Tidal Basin for cherry blossoms. ... NW, and a 38-minute delay past the Arlington Memorial Bridge, according to Google Maps.

Google Maps has been adding Waze features like incident reports in recent months, and now it's experimenting with informing you about traffic jams more quickly.. The Slowdowns option allows people ...

There you go, Google's traffic information is actually collected using real time data from other Google Maps drivers. That way you can see what the conditions are like in almost real time.

Google Maps, Waze, Apple Maps, and others can “guess” the traffic conditions, eventually being able to look for faster routes and determine more accurate ETAs.

And, like Google Maps, it uses its community to help you avoid traffic jams. Let's say you're using Waze to travel to a location and encounter a traffic jam. To avoid it, you switch to another route.

Google Maps can also estimate how traffic conditions would change throughout the day for the configured route. The way it shows such information is similar to its busyiness feature.

Google is opening up its Google Maps Platform data so that people can easily access actionable insights about infrastructure and traffic via BigQuery. Cities can easily access data about over 250 ...