The Smart-Traveler URL is Caltrans511. What does Smart-Traveler have to do with 5-1-1?
The three-digit telephone number, 511 – pronounced five-one-one – is the nationwide standard telephone number for traveler information (www.deploy511.org). Typically 511 includes real-time traffic, incidents and delays, road construction and weather-related closures for highways and major local roads. In urban areas 511 has bus-transit and train schedules with on-time status and information on other travel choices. The California Smart-Traveler is a statewide web version of 511, linking to traveler information in much the same way as 511 does over the telephone. In California dialing 511 works in the San Francisco Bay Area (www.511.org) and Sacramento/Northern California (www.sacregion511.org). San Diego 511 is expected to be working by July 2005. Other Western States already using the 511 telephone number include Oregon (www.tripcheck.com/RoadCond/roadcondindex.htm), Washington (wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/), Nevada/Reno, Utah (www.commuterlink.utah.gov/nav.htm), Arizona (www.AZ511.com) and
