Traffic chaos in Hanover: TomTom brings new voice messages for drivers!

Traffic chaos in Hanover: TomTom brings new voice messages for drivers!

Hannover, Deutschland - On April 11, 2025, the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung on the current traffic situation in Hanover. The traffic jam warning cooperates with the TomTom service, which is known for the production of navigation systems for cars. TomTom uses GPS coordinates of several million devices and generates automatic data from around 80 million mobile phone devices. In addition, several million official road sensors provide important data, while manually maintained information ensures the correctness of the information. The data is obtained from a TomTom interface provided and updated every five minutes. The other providers of navigation systems and software that provide traffic information includes Google Maps, Apple cards and Garmin.

also reports pocket navigation on a new development of tomtom and duel: provides personalizable traffic reports by voice message. Drivers receive information about the current traffic situation on their route without having to turn off their eyes from traffic. Professional commuters who often drive on well-known routes use less often classic gymnastics-by-gymnastics navigation and miss important traffic information. TomTom Audio Traffic should therefore be relevant for this user group. It is also available as an application programming interface (API) and can be integrated into music streaming services, internet radios or voice assistants.

innovations in traffic information

The system uses a technology called Traffic Over Voice that uses Floating Car Data to generate traffic information based on user profiles. Ralf-Peter Schäfer from TomTom described it as the next generation of radio traffic reports. In the future, Google Assistant and Spotify could also provide personalized traffic information. In addition, a patent for the Traffic Over Voice System has already been registered, which could also be used for georeferenced advertising.