[The Next Web] How Google’s Waze crowdsourced traffic data to save lives across Europe


Google’s Waze crowdsourced navigation service just announced its findings from its year-long partnership with the European Emergency Number Association (EENA) at the organization’s conference in Slovenia. The project started last April and piloted the use of Waze’s user-generated data to improve emergency response times and save lives in France, Austria, and Italy. TNW is in Lubljana, and we spoke with Avichai Bakst, head of EMEA partnerships at Waze, and Markus Kaufmann, technical project manager for the Emergency Communication and Coordination Center in Lower Austria. Accidents reported 30 minutes earlier and transit time cut by 4.5 minutes “I took accidents reported…

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