TOKYO -- Apps that use geographical data to suggest safe, optimal, and the most efficient routes could help ease expected bottlenecks from a new law limiting truck drivers' hours, said the president and CEO of a Japanese mapping databank company.
GeoTechnologies believes it can help ease Japan's '2024 problem'

GeoTechnologies President and CEO Hiroshige Sugihara says Japan's most urgent task right now is to increase productivity. (Photo by Jun Takai)
TOKYO -- Apps that use geographical data to suggest safe, optimal, and the most efficient routes could help ease expected bottlenecks from a new law limiting truck drivers' hours, said the president and CEO of a Japanese mapping databank company.