The GoAkamai web site consolidates Hawaii’s traveler information into a one-stop resource, providing information on traffic conditions; schedule, route and fare information for public transportation services; carpool and vanpool information; roadway construction information; and more.

The objective is to provide advance traveler information to drivers, enabling you to plan your trips more efficiently, avoid congestion and be informed of potential delays.   

The GoAkamai web site is designed to help you plan your commute to work, school or community.  Using State and City traffic cameras, it provides you with real-time snapshots of Oahu freeways, and other major roads and intersections.  It also displays a congestion map to inform you about freeway traffic conditions.

The site also provides links to information about TheBus schedules, construction work that may delay traffic, van and carpooling information, travel by bicycle and airport information.

The GoAkamai web site currently supports the current and immediate past versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE).  The web site supports only the current versions of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari.

There are four primary features offered on the home page:

• Congestion Map
• Camera Tour
• TheBusHEA
• TheBus Transit Trip Planner

• The camera tour shows you a series of real-time photos in a specific area on the island of Oahu.  
• Select an area of the island by clicking on the drop-down menu at the top of the Camera Tour box.
• You will then see a series of photos appear showing key roadways in that area.

Traffic conditions are delineated by color bands along the roadways.  Each color represents a different level of congestion.  The following table shows the defined congestion levels displayed in the Congestion Map legend.  Note that the speed ranges are calculated as a percentage of the speed limit for each roadway segment.  "No Data" is reported on the Congestion Map when field sensors are not operational or an insufficient amount of sensor reads are available to accurately report travel conditions.

The camera snapshots are updated at least once every five minutes.

Traffic

The traffic drop-down menu gives you the opportunity to view conditions in various areas of the island of Oahu.

• By selecting "Traffic Conditions by Region" and clicking on an area, you will pull up a series of photos across the top of the page that show snapshots of the traffic conditions along the major thoroughfares of that region.  Below the filmstrip is a Congestion Map zoomed to that region.  Panning and zooming within the map are similar to the Congestion Map found on the GoAkamai home page.
• The "Cameras by Region" option gives you the opportunity to select a region of the island of Oahu and then to view major thoroughfares and intersections in that region as recorded in real time by cameras.

The Transit drop-down menu links you to web sites for the Oahu, Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii public bus systems.  It also provides a link to TheBus Transit Planner for Oahu and TheBusHEA.

Airports

The Airports drop-down menu provides links to the official web sites for the major airports for every Hawaiian island.

Construction

Links that are available on the Construction drop-down menu provide information on construction projects that may cause driving delays.

Rideshare

Links are found in this drop-down menu to sites providing vanpool and carpool information.

Bicycling

The Bicycling drop-down menu includes two links:

• The State of Hawaii link takes you to bike path maps provided by the Hawaii Department of Transportation.
• The City and County of Honolulu link takes you to a detailed page about bicycling on the island of Oahu.

Freeway Service Patrol

This drop-down menu provides a direct link to the Freeway Service Patrol program on Oahu.

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The GoAkamai initiative is a cooperative program made possible by the collaboration of the Hawaii State Department of Transportation and the City & County of Honolulu Department of Transportation Services.

Already part of the GoAkamai program is the Freeway Service Patrol (see www.fsphawaii.com).  This program provides incident management by aiding drivers on the freeway.  Six roaming tow trucks and their highly-trained drivers provide assistance like tire changes, jump starts, radiator fills and other aid, including towing off the freeway.

There is more to come over the next several years.  You can look forward to more camera images, more roads with speed data, and new information transmitted via this web site as well as other enhancements that will be branded as part of the GoAkamai program.

Translated from Hawaiian, akamai means smart, clever, expert; smartness, skill, wit[1].  With “go” before it, GoAkamai means to move smartly.

The tagline for the GoAkamai program is “Get it. Got it. Go”.   It was chosen because it conveys a sense of speed in obtaining valuable travel planning information.  It also implies that the system is easy to navigate and helps travelers get to where they need to go faster