Daily Telegraph victory for city taxi travellers TAXI customers will be caught less often in jams and drivers will be warned of crashes and congestion earlier after a NSW Taxi Council initiative providing real-time traffic information from the Transport Management Centre. The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday revealed taxi drivers were "flying blind" on the road, with companies relying on updates from their drivers to avoid congestion rather than using free information available online. NSW Taxi Council chief executive Roy Waklin-King said he was working with the NSW government with a view to setting up a fully automated notification system. "We are notified about incidents on the roads via email," Mr Waklin-King said. Our taxi rooms take those notifications and, depending on the incident, will make a broadcast to their fleets. Mr Waklin-King said taxi dispatchers had been instructed the updates were a priority and he would work with the Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian to develop a fully automated system for drivers: "We want to ensure there is more instant communication. There's a bit more work to be done but in the interim we have a communication process that's working right now. Ms Berejiklian confirmed discussions were under way to provide increased communication between the taxi industry and the Transport Management Centre "including by-the-minute updates on operational transport issues, and providing a customised live traffic feed direct to taxi outlets such as individual taxi dispatch systems." Yesterday happy drivers said they had been receiving notifications from dispatch.