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10 things you should know about…
…Road and Travel Apps
April, 2014
The Social Impact Department at the Ministry of Information and
Communication Technology (ictQATAR) established Rassed, a
program that aims to study the effects of the Internet and
Information Communication Technologies (ICT) on society; and the
potential of emerging digital technologies.
We produce quarterly Digital Digest of recent market developments
and a monthly Top 10 on a particular theme.
This month we look at road and travel apps.
Read on for 10 examples of interesting innovations we
wanted to share with you….
About Rassed
Masarak: Qatar’s traffic
monitoring and navigation app
Source: http://bit.ly/REL8HU
Hundreds of sensors
attached to lampposts
pick up signals
emitted by Bluetooth
devices inside passing
vehicles to provide
information about
traffic congestion.
Bey2ollak: A community-based
traffic information service
Source: http://bit.ly/1juCLWN
Bey2ollak, is a mobile app, using crowd-sourcing and
social interaction to exchange information about traffic.
1 million registered users
30,000 requests per minute
250k Facebook fans
119k twitter followers
Dhaka’s first bus map
was crowd-sourced
Source: http://kck.st/1juwWbL Image: http://bit.ly/1jqoZmx
Dhaka, the capital of
Bangladesh, has over 5
million bus users a day,
but no bus map.
Volunteers crowd-sourced
270 bus routes to
produce the city’s first
route-map.
Beliaa, a mobile mechanic
Source: http://bit.ly/1gN8OiC
Beliaa, is an Arabic
mobile app which
offers roadside
assistance by using
your GPS location to
find the nearest
breakdown center.
Salamtek:
Drivers Anti- Distraction App
Source: http://bit.ly/1i8uxRA
This app locks a cell
phone, when it detects
that a car is traveling
above a certain speed.
It also sends a message
to callers that the
phone’s user is driving.
The first “shake-a-taxi” app
Source: http://bit.ly/1h4Q5CK Image: http://bit.ly/1jZKbD9
When shaking your
phone, the installed app
uses GPS functionality to
look for - and contact– the
nearest available taxis.
Limiting traffic police bribes
Source: http://bit.ly/1gN9kgw Image: http://bit.ly/1pDzhbY
The Traffic Fines India app keeps users informed
about their traffic fines without having to be online.
Ma3Route, a Kenyan
solution to traffic congestion
Source: http://bit.ly/1h4QKUB
Using Twitter, Ma3Route sends subscribers traffic feeds on
specified routes to let them know what the traffic is like.
Touch and Travel:
towards paperless tickets
Source: http://bit.ly/1gN6Z5n
This app lets German
commuters book and pay for
railway and bus tickets online,
by showing a barcode to ticket
inspectors.
Ubisafe: Keep track of
your car by using your phone
Source: http://www.ubisafe.com/car
UbiSafe (mobile software + UbiSafe Box) turns
smartphones into a satellite-tracking device to locate
vehicles on a map in real time.
Disclaimer: All content in these slides is in the public domain and referenced so that you can read the original sources.
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