SA’s congested traffic: What IBM suggests

South Africa, with its incoming SANRAL open road tolling system, could also become a success story. Foster suggests that by using the data compiled by such a system, authorities could better organise traffic flow during peak hour times in Johannesburg.
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I nearly choked to death on my coffee.

More like : IBM see's a cash cow run by unskilled people for the milking.
 
davemc said:
I nearly choked to death on my coffee.

More like : IBM see's a cash cow run by unskilled people for the milking.
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Regardless of their motive, I see nothing incorrect with the point they're making. Better data systems do go a long way to improving lives. MIS in Health Care is an oft-cited, and valid, example.
 
henkk78 said:
Regardless of their motive, I see nothing incorrect with the point they're making. Better data systems do go a long way to improving lives. MIS in Health Care is an oft-cited, and valid, example.
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Just a pity those calculated improvements would need to be physically implemented. Judging by the efficiency of our average government employee its not going to be implemented as executed as they might hope.
 
Geriatrix said:
Just a pity those calculated improvements would need to be physically implemented. Judging by the efficiency of our average government employee its not going to be implemented as executed as they might hope.
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Funneh sheit that :P
 
IBM about to milk the South African motorist. I see a bribery and corruption scandal looming. Then again, why don't I just sell you all my neat idea to barcode every living thing and charge you all to walk to the postoffice and back? Whoopy, whaddyouknow, I'll be rich, IBM Satan here I come.
 
IBM unveils plans to microchip anything with two wheels. Why am I not surprised? Didn't IBM get bust for procuring devils and overcharging for heat in HELL?
 
If IBM can solve our traffic probs I'll be the first to pat them on the back. In Gauteng it's bad, so anyone with 2c to add has the thumbs up from me. Go and milk our govt boys! :D
 
Cara said:
If IBM can solve our traffic probs I'll be the first to pat them on the back. In Gauteng it's bad, so anyone with 2c to add has the thumbs up from me. Go and milk our govt boys! :D
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You actually think that IBM will charge you 2c?

Think of the shareholders for once!!

More power to the corporates that rape/pay the Guvinmunt:mad:
 
Ah.. IBM, the people with the elephants and the eggs. They sound like some of the people I have worked for... all stats and pie charts and wonderful graphs and no real conception of how to actually do the job at hand. Will a graph do anything to move a broken down truck? I doubt it. Will a pie chart fix a robot? Will Better data processing prevent the taxi's from driving like maniacs? Somehow I just dont see it.
Next theory please.....
 
Getting the Taxis off the Road would make 50% difference without even trying!!!!!!!!!
 
Fuzzbox said:
Getting the Taxis off the Road would make 50% difference without even trying!!!!!!!!!
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You'd be surprised...

According to the latest physics research, rule-breakers?drivers passing you on the wrong side or changing lanes too close to the intersection?actually help smooth the flow of traffic for the rest of us.
"The interesting finding is that if most of the people are law-abiding, and you have a certain amount of people who are breaking the rule, then you are actually getting the minimum chance of a [traffic] jam," said Petter Minnhagen, a physicist at Sweden's Umea University and an author of the paper published in the journal Physical Review E.
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http://physicscentral.com/buzz/blog/index.cfm?postid=3414795237807494042
 
Sa = One of the very few countries in the world that accepts being raped by companies.

start your company today and make millions by tomorrow.
 
If they pull it off as well as they did the eNATIS thing, we'll be back to ox wagons in no time.

Viva.
 
I'm sure cell phones will be able to provide nice pictures of how many people are at what general location at a certain time. Somebody just needs to go and data mine Vodacom, MTN and Cell-C's HLR's.

No need for toll roads to tell you that.
 
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