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Yandex Maps adds gas station queues and fuel-saving routes
Yandex has updated Maps, Navigator, Go, and Refueling with gas station queue data and routes designed to cut fuel use.
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Yandex has updated its driver services with two practical additions: gas station queue data and fuel-saving routes across Maps, Navigator, Go, and Refueling. The new queue information appears directly in a gas station’s card, where drivers can also build a route immediately.
For regular drivers, that solves a common problem. Navigation apps have long been able to find nearby gas stations, but not all of them can show whether there is already a line of cars at the pumps. For now, the feature is available in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and 14 other major Russian cities.
Yandex says it looks beyond simple fuel availability and also estimates how crowded a station is. The company calculates queues using anonymized data from several sources, including Yandex Refueling, Yandex Go, driver reports, traffic conditions, and user survey responses. By combining multiple signals, the system is meant to distinguish a real queue from a brief local surge of cars at a specific station.
Fuel-saving routes may take longer, but they are typically planned to reduce stops, traffic lights, and sharp speed changes. With congestion and fuel prices both high, that tradeoff may make sense: an extra five minutes on the road can sometimes cost less than burning an extra liter of fuel.
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via ITzine
