ODOT's TripCheck Part of the Waze of the Future

TripCheck is catching the Waze.

The Oregon Department of Transportation announced on Thursday that they are including information from Waze in their TripCheck service.

Waze, a Google company, crowdsources current traffic conditions from drivers through an app.

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"We want to take advantage of new ideas and innovative technology that improve safety and reliability for everyone traveling around the state," said ODOT Director Matt Garrett.

"TripCheck.com has been a valuable resource for Oregonians for more than a decade, and adding Waze user-generated reports allows us to bypass the process of building and maintaining our own app for crowd-sourced data collection."

By adding certain data to TripCheck from the Waze Connected Citizens Program, a free, two-way data share of publicly available traffic information, ODOT hopes to help users of the transportation system get where they are going more efficiently, ODOT said in a release.

"Waze is thrilled to see how ODOT continues to evolve its traffic management through the Waze Connected Citizens Program," said Paige Fitzgerald, Connected Citizens Program Manager at Waze.

"By harnessing the power of our crowdsourced traffic information, ODOT is enhancing TripCheck and further optimizing the local driving experience."