This start-up fights against traffic jams

Intelligent route planning and an individual route for each car through the evaluation of real-time data: This is what the start-up Graphmasters promises. Lower Saxony is now using the app from the young company.

Everyone who owns a car has experienced the following scenario: you want to avoid the traffic jam using the alternative route of the sat nav and end up directly in the next traffic jam, because all other motorists have also been directed there. Lower Saxony and the start-up Graphmaster now believe they have found a solution to this, which goes by the name of NUNAV: The app evaluates traffic data in real time, develops an individual route for the best and fastest route for each car and shares it with the driver via the app. Every 15 seconds, the route is optimized, says the start-up Graphmasters, which developed the algorithm for this. The functionality was tested, for example, at a Helene Fischer concert in Hanover, and is now going live in Lower Saxony.

"In this way, we can optimally utilize the existing traffic infrastructure and increase safety on our roads," says Lower Saxony's Minister of Transport Bernd Althusmann in this regard. The President of the Lower Saxony State Authority for Road Construction and Transport also sees the potential for modern and efficient traffic management in the app. So far, Lower Saxony is the only federal state to use its own traffic data for this purpose. Partners are the Hanover region and the police. They are now joined by Autobahn GmbH. The app is free of charge and can be used in the entire German-speaking region.