Best Usage of TomTom Traffic

kinetik · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 12, 2005 Posts: 3

I have just activated my 30 day trial of Traffic, was driving from Newcastle to Cheshire late Friday afternoon, and thought it would be the best time to try it out.

Put updates at 5 minutes and the traffic reports started coming in, however it did not seem to change my route as a result of these. I had to go into each incident and click avoid manually.

Is this the way that this system should be used? Or does it work out whether a particular traffic problem is worse than an alternative route and which to use?

Regards,
Peter

chris_w · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:14 pm Post subject:

It will only replan your route if a quicker alternative is available.

It's done this on me a few times but only when the delay is pretty serious.

hope this helps,
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Thanks,

Chris

kinetik · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 12, 2005 Posts: 3

So navigating through the specific delays and avoiding them explicitly isn't recommended?

I did this on Friday, and although it took me a weird route I didn't come accross a single traffic jam for 3 hours!

chris_w · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject:

If you've got it set to replan for you then no.

you really need to look at how lon the delay is going to be before avoiding it or you will end up taking strange routes and your journey will take forever.
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Chris

mikealder · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:39 pm Post subject: Re: Best Usage of TomTom Traffic

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