In the United States alone traffic congestion creates and extra 4.2 billion hours of travel time causing 2.9 billion gallons of extra fuel to be burned, with a total cost of $78 billion. (Source: 2007 Urban Mobility Report, Texas Transportation Institute)

Mobile Millennium, the next generation traffic monitoring service from Nokia research, helps commuters like University of California, Berkeley professor Lisa Alvarez-Cohen avoid those costs. She can use real-time traffic data gathered through GPS-enabled devices to change her route or leave a little later to avoid congestion. Less traffic congestion saves time, frustration, and fuel and reduces CO2 emissions.