Bad weather. Road construction. Congestion. Accidents. All of those things can hinder your travel anywhere... but now the North Carolina Department of Transportation has a way you can know about obstacles on the road ahead before you get there. It's a new tool called NCDOT Mobile that provides current road conditions in real time straight from your cell phone.“People expect instant information, and NCDOT Mobile gives it to them,” NCDOT Communications Director Greer Beaty said. “Now you don’t need a computer to get road closure or traffic updates before you get behind the wheel.”
NCDOT Mobile is a phone-friendly version of the NCDOT website. To access it, type http://m.ncdot.gov into the browser on your smartphone. Then, bookmark it and save it to your phone’s home screen for future reference. To use the real-time mapping function, be sure your phone's location based service (GPS) is turned on.
Since it is web-based, NCDOT Mobile is designed to be compatible on a variety of smartphones, including the iPhone, Android and some newer Blackberry phones. While it can be viewed on a PC, it may not be compatible with some web browsers and it will not be able to auto-dial phone numbers, or provide any location-based services, like some maps.
Key features include:
- Real-time traffic information that works with smartphone mapping and built-in GPS and wireless location services;
- Searchable DMV office locations that also work with your phone’s mapping capabilities;
- Searchable Rest Area locations;
- Ferry and Amtrak information;
- NCDOT Twitter messages; and
- NCDOT News.
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