Algorithms that automatically reroute your car look like the next trend in mobile mapping.

via An App that Could Stop Traffic – Technology Review.

Brüggemann, 25, and two of his friends, all of them students at universities in Germany, used this idea to create a Windows Phone app called Greenway that aims to thwart traffic jams and get you from one point to another in the shortest amount of time.

Built by 3 university students in Germany,

Won environmental sustainability award (and a $10,000 prize) at Microsoft’s annual Imagine Cup student technology competition in July

Can simulate up to 50K cars