5-1-1
5-1-1 is a special telephone number in the United States and some parts of Canada. It is made to be easy to remember. People can dial the number on a landline phone or on a mobile phone to get information about traffic and travel.
History
In March 2001, there were more than three hundred phone numbers about traffic and travel. This was confusing to many people, because so many numbers existed, or were there, for the same thing. To fix this, the United States Department of Transportation (called the USDOT) asked the Federal Communications Commission (called the FCC) for a special N11 code. On July 21, 2000, the FCC made 5-1-1 the national telephone number for travel information.[1]
5-1-1 Media
A traffic sign in the San Francisco Bay Area that encourages drivers to call the 5-1-1 telephone number for information o
FasTrak antennae that poll vehicle transponders to collect data used to generate 511.org traffic information, San Francisco
References
- ↑ "511 Guidelines Version 3.0" (PDF). Sep 2005. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-03-17. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
Other websites
5-1-1 numbers for specific places
- Arizona
- San Francisco Bay Area
- San Diego Archived 2008-02-17 at the Wayback Machine
- Florida
- Florida - Tampa Bay Area Archived 2008-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
- Florida - Southwest Florida Area Archived 2008-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
- Georgia
- Kansas Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- Kentucky Archived 2012-05-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Louisiana
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- Montana
- Nebraska
- North Carolina Archived 2006-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
- North Dakota Archived 2008-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
- Northern New England – Vermont
- Nevada Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
- Northern New England – New Hampshire Archived 2008-11-20 at the Wayback Machine
- Northern New England – Maine[dead link]
- Oregon
- Southwest Ohio - Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky
- South Dakota Archived 2008-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- Tennessee
- Virginia