Has TomTom Forgot About Scotland? (EDIT: & Wales?)

spook51 · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:10 am Post subject:

I'd be spending a tenner on a FOI request to the relevant highway authority to ask the terms of their contract to supply traffic information to TomTom.

I just had a look at the Traffic Scotland website where I found:

Why is congestion information only available for selected roads?

Traffic monitoring equipment required to generate congestion data is only installed on specific sections of the Scottish trunk road network. These are currently limited to roads around Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Graeme2812 · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:01 pm Post subject:

spook51 · Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:53 am Post subject:

I appreciate that Graeme but it illustrates Traffic Scotland's attitude towards collecting traffic data i.e only the Glasgow/Edinburgh area. It could be that's the limit of the information TomTom receives from them - hence my suggestion for a FOI request.

Froggy · Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:34 am Post subject:

The information on Traffic Scotland's website is far more comprehensive than just Glasgow/Edinburgh. If you look at the 'Current incidents' page, it shows most of the road closures liable to cause problems - Rest and be Thankful, snow gates at Braemar etc...
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spook51 · Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:10 pm Post subject:

Froggy · Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:33 pm Post subject:

But if it is not contracted, why not? Wht should Scotland/Wales be penalised Evil or Very Mad

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M8TJT · Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:55 pm Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 6:57 pm Post subject:

Sorry chaps and chapesses, they don't use Scottish 'incident' data:

avdl1999 · Regular Visitor Joined: May 16, 2009 Posts: 82

That's pants!! So pants in fact that the TomTom CEO should wear some..........on his head!!!

What a load of ridiculous todge! So forget getting incident data if you want to travel the length of the "UNITED" Kingdom?

God only knows how scottish residents will feel about being singled out when commuting on their local roads.

Their roads not worthy?? Rhetorical question (I assume it's contract related with Traffic Scotland)

This really is a farce! Tomtom just get worse. How many more customers do they want to alienate??

Daggers · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 8:57 pm Post subject:

M8TJT · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:08 pm Post subject:

It's called 'devolution' my friend Shocked

That's the sort of thing that happens, as well as the Scots and the Welsh having a large say on how England is run Rolling Eyes

MaFt · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:10 pm Post subject:

Don't forget though, TomTom sell their Live Traffic service, they DO NOT sell a Scottish Roads service, a Highways Agency service or a Welsh Dragon Warning service.

The data for the service that they sell comes from multiple sources including, but not limited to, Vodafone floating traffic data.

Yes, it's not great that they don't (perhaps can't? [remember, we don't know the details]) use the Scottish data.

Maybe a better way to look at it is that the English data features an extra source than the standard, Vodafone-only, countries which should, perhaps, be classed as the 'standard' service.

MaFt

M8TJT · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:51 pm Post subject:

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