Toyota Plans Trial Provision of Lane-specific Traffic-congestion Information
Based on Driving Video Data from 500 Tokyo Taxis

Toyota Motor Corporation, as an outcome of ongoing verification testing being conducted with the Japan Federation of Hire-Taxi Associations since April 2017, plans to start on a trial basis a service that provides lane-specific traffic-congestion information to its TC Smartphone Navigation smartphone app. The information is to be generated by analyzing driving video and vehicle data collected from Toyota's data-transmission TransLog driving recorder installed on 500 taxis operating in the Tokyo metropolitan area. This trial service is to start in the spring of 2018.