{"id":102583,"date":"2016-08-30T12:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T10:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=102583"},"modified":"2016-08-30T12:47:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T10:47:57","slug":"how-twitter-will-be-used-to-ease-joburg-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/102583-how-twitter-will-be-used-to-ease-joburg-traffic","title":{"rendered":"How Twitter will be used to ease Joburg traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"

A research team is hoping to alleviate traffic congestion in Johannesburg by harnessing the power of social media, reports Fin24<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The IBM research team headed up by Bonolo Mathibela, is the first major project taking place\u00a0 at the newly-launched research facility in the Tshimologong Precinct in Braamfontein.<\/p>\n

\u201cA recent study by Tom Tom showed that traffic congestion is higher in developing and newly industrialised nations,\u201d said Mathibela.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking at various methods on how we can reduce traffic congestion in the city. We monitor Twitter using algorithms we have developed, which show us which areas are most affected by traffic congestion on a map in real time.”<\/p>\n

So what exactly did this research reveal?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we have found is that pointsmen at traffic congested areas significantly aid in the flow of traffic. Through the information we gather, we will be able to determine exactly where pointsmen need to be deployed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The project is expected to officially begin rolling out soon.<\/p>\n

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Sick of being stuck in traffic? There’s an app for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":102591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585,2226],"tags":[31,1856,21571,20700,177],"class_list":["post-102583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-ibm","tag-joburg","tag-traffic","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102695,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102583\/revisions\/102695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}