Traffic Update

My project is a traffic update service that uses SMS (Text Messaging) to send updates to people while they are on the road. The user registers them self in the database then fills out the trip planer. After the trip planer is filled out the user will click activate and they will receive text messages 30 min before they are set to arrive on a given road.

The project uses the MailMessage class built into .NET to build an email message and that is sent to the cell phone number with the appropriate context following the number for example #@vtext.com for verizon. That is sent to the provider's server and then sent to the cell phone as a text message.

The Project uses traffic information from http://apps.dot.state.nc.us/tims/ http://www.dot.state.sc.us/getting/interstate_traffic.asp and http://data.georgia-navigator.com/. Information is gathered using shell scripts and C++ programs to format the data.