SabkaTraffic: Real time traffic in India

We have created a real time traffic information for those on the go with a mobile device application. We provide live traffic on many of India's busiest roads.

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how do I report traffic to you so that you can display it for others who will take the same route.

Currently we only provide the ability to contribute via incident reporting and location information from the phone. Any information that you provide (if you travel with your phone on, and enable location in the application and phone) will be automatically reflected within 4 minutes to other users of Sabka Traffic. 

We highly recommend that you travel with the application turned on since this is the easiest and most effective way of sharing information. 

Thank you for your interest and invaluable contribution!!

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How do you gather traffic data? Is it based on probes received from your mobile applications that users use? How reliable are the data? What is the frequency at which the traffic data is updated?

Thanks for your questions. Hope you find the following information helpful:

The traffic data is updated approximately every 5 minutes.

The data is gathered from many sources, including mobile phones (if the users choose to contribute)

Data accuracy and reliability is correlated to commuter engagement for the respective cities.

For more information, please see our white papers:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/66234908/Sabka-Traffic-White-Paper-1

http://www.scribd.com/doc/73527235/Sabka-Traffic-White-Paper-2

Thanks.

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Sabka Traffic says Hello to the iPhone!!

We are pleased to announce that Sabka Traffic has been released for the iPhone and the iPad!

The official AppStore link is http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sabka-traffic/id506132318

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hey guys very nice initiative, i m proud of indian fellows building excellent websites, god bless, keep up the good work!

Thank you for the kind words.  We hope that all those that are part of the community are as pleased and engaged as you are.We are now leveraging UserVoice in order to provide better support and answer to users most common questions.  

http://sabka.uservoice.com/ (our new support site)

Let us know how we are doing, vote on requested features, take part of your traffic community.  We all have a say in which direction Sabka Traffic is headed.  Got an idea to make the service better?  Speak up and we will listen, our grassroots initiative depends on you, our community of active users.

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why dis app dnt work - it shows not compatible with your device i.e. my htc wildfire.

Could you please give us some more details as to which OS you are running and the steps you took to get this error.  The more details the better.

Thanks,

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Beat traffic with mobile app that helps commuters avoid jams, provides alternate routes, info on accident sites.

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Expanded coverage for Delhi!  For those who are commuting between Delhi and Noida, we have you covered.

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Hi, this is Sneha from Hindustan Times, Mumbai. Want more info on your service for a story. Can you help me with a contact.

Hello Sneha,

Thank you for your inquiry, our press contact is Tapan Seth and can be reached at [email protected].

Sincerely,

The Sabka Traffic Team

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NEW Sabka Traffic for Windows Phone (WP7).  With all the great features you've come to expect from our other clients.  Get real time traffic for Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Pune with Nagpur coming soon.  We are proud to announce that this release also supports our recent global incident update.  

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Our Second White Paper

Sabka Traffic White Paper #2

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Our New Twitter Handles

Evangelist: So what's new with Sabka Traffic?

SabkaTraffic: Well, we actively listen to all our user requests and comments and have slowly addressed them all. Not long ago, we got a request to split up our real time Twitter feeds and today we are pleased to announce that we launched segregated Twitter feeds for each city.

Evangelist: That's great news, I was actually waiting for that feature. So how does it work exactly?

SabkaTraffic: It's really easy, what we did was we took each cities airport codes and created a Twitter handle with our SabkaTraffic prefix for each city that we support. Here are the cities we currently support and their respective Twitter handles:

Ahmedabad - @SabkaTrafficAMD

Bengaluru - @SabkaTrafficBLR

Chandigarh - @SabkaTrafficIXC

Chennai - @SabkaTrafficMAA

Delhi - @SabkaTrafficDEL

Hyderabad - @SabkaTrafficHYD

Indore - @SabkaTrafficIDR

Jaipur - @SabkaTrafficJAI

Kanpur - @SabkaTrafficKNU

Kolkata - @SabkaTrafficCCU

Lucknow - @SabkaTrafficLKO

Mumbai - @SabkaTrafficMUM

Nagpur - @SabkaTrafficNAG

Pune - @SabkaTrafficPNQ

Surate - @SabkaTrafficSTV

Global Incidents - @SabkaTraffic

Our primary twitter handle (@SabkaTraffic) will now be dedicated to global incident reporting and low volume Company announcements.

Evangelist: Does it also work with feature phones?

SabkaTraffic: Yes it does, but there are limitations. Currently there is only support for a few mobile providers (Bharati Airtel, Reliance, Videocon, Tata). For example if you wanted to subscribe to our real time traffic and incidents for Pune you would send a 'follow SabkaTrafficPNQ' SMS to 53000. More detailed instructions can be found here: http://bit.ly/u5LXWU

Evangelist: I love you Sabka!

SabkaTraffic: *BLUSH* Evangelist like you make this grassroots initiative worth it!

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We are now supporting global incident reporting as well as detailed information for each incident...

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check out our new markers and legend! hope you like them.

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Welcome to new features for 2012. We have upgraded our website to be much simpler to use. Traffic for all cities is on a single map at the touch of a button!

Also we are now providing a much asked for feature - ROUTING! you can get directions for anywhere and print them out at your convenience.

Please feel free to leave us comments and let us know how things are working out. 

Routing will be added to our clients very soon and new client updated will be available shortly. 

thank you for your support, encouragement, and participation in this great and amazing initiative...YOU ARE AWESOME.

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Happy New Year!  

Wishing that all the lights be green and the roads clear for 2012!

Thank you to all who have made this grassroots initiative such a success!

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Check out our new video on using the Android client...enjoy!

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Sabka Traffic BlackBerry Bugfix Release (v1.7 & v2.7)

Fixed an issue which caused the warning screen to become persistent.  This issue affected both BlackBerry OS5 and OS6+ applications.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank those of you who provided feedback that helped us pinpoint the issue.  We would also like to thank these individuals for their support and continued patience as we refine our BlackBerry client.  Even though this application is free, we do our best to squash bugs/issues as they come up and will not settle until everyone is satisfied.

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