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How Google Maps Predicts Traffic and ETAs: The Technology Behind Real-Time Navigation

Calculating a route across millions of concurrent users is a complex optimization challenge. Moving past simple real-time data aggregation, modern navigation systems rely on distributed infrastructure to transform billions of chaotic traffic observations into reliable predictive models. This analysis is based on publicly available research from Google, DeepMind, transportation-network studies, and distributed systems architecture principles. Because the exact production implementation…