Corona: Test the Border Waiting Times (provided by SIXFOLD)

[Bernd Welter]

Hi there,

due to COVID-19 / Corona the situation at various border crossings has changed. But there are good news ahead: Together with our partner SIXFOLD we managed to integrate "Real-time information on transit times at border crossings" into the PTV xServer Internet.
You can test the data here (showcase section of Production). Just select the PTV_TrafficIncidents layer and apply the SNAPSHOT mode. Then you will see all live traffic infos. Navigate to a border and check the waiting icons.

The icon and tooltip at the Luxemburg border (only 10 minutes delay)

Sample situation at the border between France (Mulhouse) and Germany

The data is available both for

• visualization in xmap
• routing in xRoute
• strategic planning

The product managements blog entry contains both

• a detailed description of the datasource
• a "how to" for programmers"

Thanks to the teams of Product Management and DevOps and of course to our partner SIXFOLD.

Best regards,
Bernd

[Bernd Welter]

Sidenote: the border waiting times are no longer available as a separate layer.

But our product management is very interested in improving the underlying data sources and maybe this data comes into the scope via the popular tomtom traffic data...