Traffic Pakistan

Traffic Pakistan is a newly launched first of its kind traffic reporting service for Pakistan. Currently launched in three major cities:

• Islamabad
• Karachi
• Lahore

Though simple yet a very useful and creative idea brought to life. In Pakistan, you are bound to get stuck in traffic blocks when you leave for someplace. But this innovative service can help you save your time. As it provides latest updates regarding different roads / places in the respective city.

Its a purely user contribution based service, relying entirely on the input by users. More the people start using and contributing it, more useful the service will get because it fetches updates based on users input. 

Amazingly, people of Islamabad have come up with a very unique way of utilizing this service, and that is Updates on CNG pumps in Islamabad.

For example:

• F7 caltex is serving two lines at a time. Can be time saving
• long bloody line for cng at pso f8 and caltex f8. Oh my!!

Given the chance, this can be a very useful community.

Using Traffic Pakistan

Getting Updated

Getting updates from Traffic Pakistan is as simple as 

• Opening the website www.trafficpakistan.com and following your respective city. Search for your point of interest and you are done.
• Getting updates via SMS is very intuitive and easy to remember, you just send an SMS to +92-312-5554065 containing this text: "traffic islamabad" for last 5 updates related to Islamabad. Or "traffic islamabad islamabad highway" for last 5 updates related to "Islamabad Highway" in Islamabad.

Similarly for other cities, your SMS should be "traffic CityName PointOfInterest" for specific updates about a point of interest or "traffic CityName" for city updates.

Contributing/Updating Traffic Status

Traffic Pakistan does not require any kind of registration to be a contributor, it is open for all. You can be a part of community in two ways,

• Twitter: When posting updates meant for Traffic Pakistan, use the following "hashtags" in your tweet.And Traffic Pakistan will automatically get updated.

• #lhrtraffic for Lahore

• #isbtraffic for Islamabad

• #khitraffic for Karachi 

• SMS: If you don't use Twitter, you can still be a part of this fast growing community. You can SMS at +92-312-5554065 starting with the following keywords:

• lhrtraffic for Lahore

• isbtraffic for Islamabad

• khitraffic for Karachi

for example : SMS "isbtraffic faizabad is blocked by protestors" will update Islamabad Channel with the post, its that simple.

On successful post, you will receive an acknowledgement from Traffic Pakistan indicating that your post was successful .

For help, simply SMS "help traffic" on +92-312-5554065 .  Don't forget to save this number/

We at Wired Soup think that given the restrictions and support by the Government in Pakistan, its a very useful service for the community, but its success depends on the usage by the community. Next time you plan to go out shopping, make sure you have checked www.trafficpakistan.com