Visualize BEST TIME TO LEAVE for a given destination (red to green). Save time if you know the peaks.
Problem
You know where to go, but want to know what would be the best time to leave to avoid peak traffic.
At the moment you a ETA, which is nice to know but doesn't help you to plan.
Idea
You plan a route, get an ETA and a option to choose the best time for leaving. Could be a color coded (green to red) 24h hour-by-hour "forecast" of expected travel time (graph or simple list). This could include current traffic situation for the next few hours, averages for the rest. Also the next 2 hours could be split into let's say quarters of an hour. Sometimes being 15 minutes late can result in being stuck in rush hour. It could calculate minutes/percentages you could save or you could spend in traffic.
Benefit
- Wazers can save on travel time by choose their ideal time to leave.
- Other Wazers benefit from distribution of traffic over time - reduce the peaks, facilitate low traffic.
- @Waze: You want to save 5 minutes per Wazer each day by providing the best route. Save them another 5 minutes by enabling them to choose the perfect time to leave.
What do you think? Any other ideas?
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Miki Kvetan
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It should save lot of time to know when is the peak on your way to work. If everybody goes there before 9 and there is relatively chill after 9, you should know about it and consider it tomorrow. One less car before 9.
This should be simple as that:
"Your route - 45 minutes now.
Peak time: from 8:37 to 9:08
Consider it tommorrow. "It should be based on average travel times per day on that route, so it is mostly predictible and force people to think when they travel.
Lot of time there is no hurry for me to travel on exact times, and I want to know what times I should avoid. If there is feature that tells me, that I should avoid times between 18:30 and 18:45, because there are rush hour every day, be sure I am not traveling that time.
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Ward Bouwman commented
Great point. Often I have choice when to travel, but when I have to be at the others side of the city, it would be helpful to have a suggestion. Best time for this route is 11:00 Am till 1:00 PM and 7PM till 5 AM" or something like that.
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Carlo Costanzo
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I love this idea. I am often sitting at work and checking Waze to see how long it would take to get home. I would love to be able to set an alert for Waze to let me know when my commute time would drop to 60 minutes so I could leave then. That would be awesome.