“Fastest Route between two points”
I’ve been experimenting with a new trip planning tool created by Traffic.com using data and mapping from NavTech. It’s one of an entire suite of trip planning tools (their primary focus is packaging and delivering traffic flow information for most USA cities). What’s interesting about this application is that appears to be utililizing current weather and road travel conditions to calculate traffic flow and come up with reasonably accurate estimates.
For a trial, I put in coordinates from my Las Vegas office to a field office in Pasadena, California. I know this road very, very well. Surprisingly, it didn’t route the entire way along I-15 (the normal road), but instead chose to go east to US-95 and then back to I-15. Normally, this would be a glaring error — but it turns out that due to construction work in Mountain Pass + the rain right now –I think the program is probably correct. Very Impressive!