into Mobile Navigation Applications
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., and KIRKLAND, Wash. – December 2, 2008 – Networks In Motion (NIM), the award-winning wireless navigation, hyper-local search and location-based services (LBS) company with the largest mobile phone navigation subscriber base in North America, and INRIX®, the leading provider of traffic information, today announced a premium data partnership. NIM will use Total Fusion Traffic data from INRIX to enhance its AtlasBook Navigator™ application for mobile devices, empowering the AtlasBook user with the most accurate ETAs, optimal route recommendations and timely traffic alerts available on the market.  The combination of INRIX Total Fusion Traffic with AtlasBook’s turn-by-turn routing application provides speed information on 800,000 miles of roadways, including busy city streets and arterials, in addition to freeways and highways across the U.S. INRIX’s unique, routing-optimized traffic intelligently produces highly accurate traffic data by combining real-time information from the largest GPS probe network in the world – featuring nearly a million GPS-enabled taxis, service vehicles, airport shuttle services and other commercial vehicles as well as consumer cellular GPS-based devices – with traditional road sensor information.
AtlasBook Navigator is a white-label navigation software platform available to wireless carriers for GPS-enabled mobile phones featuring local search and other LBS applications. With maps, local directories and turn-by-turn directions with voice guidance, AtlasBook Navigator transforms the mobile phone into a personalized travel guide.
About Networks in Motion Networks In Motion is an award-winning wireless navigation and local search company, with products on most major wireless carriers. Networks In Motion powers: AAA Mobile® on Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and Alltel Wireless; Verizon Wireless’ VZ Navigator; YellowPages.com Mobile, which is currently deployed on AT&T; Alltel’s Axcess Mobile Guide navigator; U.S. Cellular’s Your Navigator; TELUS Navigator and TELUS Kid Find, making NIM’s NAVBuilder platform the most widely used mobile phone navigation service in North America. Founded in 2000, the company is privately held and headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif., with international offices in Sweden and Spain. More information is available at http://www.networksinmotion.com.
US DOT Announces SafeTrip-21 Partnership with I-95 Corridor Coalition
and INRIX to Improve Safety and Mobility along the East Coast 
At the 15th World Congress on ITS, the nation’s top transportation research official, announced an agreement between the U.S. Department of Transportation and the I-95 Corridor Coalition, through the University of Maryland, and other partners to test, evaluate and deploy a wide range of traffic management, traveler information and performance measurement applications to help travelers make more informed travel decisions. The $6.4M initiative will accelerate development of applications to utilize the data, which INRIX makes available to the Coalition and its member agencies, that spans from Maine to Florida through the Coalition’s Vehicle Probe Project. Results from the initiative are scheduled to be available for evaluation in mid-2009. PBS&J, INRIX’s consulting services lead for the Vehicle Probe Project, will be spearheading the creation of a multi-state web site focused on long distance travel as well as assisting Virginia DOT in piloting integration of INRIX data into activity center and rest area displays. 
The press conference, held at the I-95 Corridor Coalition booth, featured:
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The combination of INRIX Total Fusion Traffic with AtlasBook’s turn-by-turn routing application provides speed information on 800,000 miles of roadways, including busy city streets and arterials, in addition to freeways and highways across the U.S. INRIX’s unique, routing-optimized traffic intelligently produces highly accurate traffic data by combining real-time information from the largest GPS probe network in the world – featuring nearly a million GPS-enabled taxis, service vehicles, airport shuttle services and other commercial vehicles as well as consumer cellular GPS-based devices – with traditional road sensor information.