INRIX today announced immediate availability of the largest, most accurate and most advanced database of fully geo-coded traffic cameras available. INRIX is now the exclusive commercial licensor of traffic camera information from Vizzion, a leading developer of traffic camera data services. INRIX Connected Services now delivers real-time access to 10,000 traffic cameras in over 100 markets across nearly every major city in the US, Canada, UK, and New Zealand.

Expanding upon INRIX’s extensive suite of real-time traffic flow services and other in-car connected services content, images from traffic cameras can be sent to mobile phones, displayed on a Web page, or viewed on a connected navigation device. INRIX Connected Services provides a suite of application programming interfaces (APIs) making integration of traffic cameras by Web portals, mobile application publishers, navigation developers and broadcast media easy and reliable.

“Our new service provides instant access to double the number of traffic cameras available anywhere,” said Kush Parikh, vice president of business development, INRIX. “INRIX Connected Services continues to deliver best-in-class traffic flow, incident, traffic camera, routing and other in-car services.”

INRIX and its traffic camera sources use advanced automated systems to continuously evaluate the integrity of the camera data, which when coupled with our dynamic image quality checks, enables us to offer unrivaled accuracy. Additionally, INRIX provides exceptional server performance leveraging its state-of-the-art data center with intelligent caching to offload the burden from local authority image feeds and onto our network of servers. Image retrieval times are normally less than one second.

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In late February, INRIX released the second annual INRIX National Traffic Scorecard, revealing a startling 30 percent decline in traffic congestion in 2008 during the peak periods on major roads in urban America. Overall the report found that 99 of the top 100 most populated cities in the U.S. experienced decreases in traffic congestion levels in 2008 as compared to the prior year.

The Scorecard contains the most accurate and current information in the country regarding overall congestion and bottlenecks on nearly 50,000 miles of America’s major roadways, and is compiled using tens of billions of data points from INRIX’s network of nearly one million GPS-enabled cars and trucks traveling across over 800,000 miles of roads.

This webinar -- hosted by Rick Schuman, the report author and INRIX Vice President of Public Sector -- will provide an executive summary of the report findings.

Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://inrixevents.webex.com/inrixevents/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=667812502&t=a

In a further industry effort to demystify the analysis of traffic information quality, INRIX recently published Benchmarking Traffic Data Quality: Best Practices for Analyzing the Quality of Traffic Information. This 60-page guide showcases best practices, key metrics and INRIX thought leadership on this important topic.

Hosted by INRIX CTO Craig Chapman and VP of Marketing Scott Sedlik, this webinar offers a technical primer on traffic data quality providing a benchmark from which to evaluate the many components that make up the quality of traffic information. The discussion will describe the processes and methods INRIX uses to validate, measure and verify the quality of traffic reporting data. In addition, it outlines best practices for the planning and execution of ground truth testing of traffic flow data, including results from the just published I-95 Corridor Coalition report and from recent ground truth tests conducted by INRIX and its partner, Clear Channel Total Traffic Network.

Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://inrixevents.webex.com/inrixevents/onstage/g.php?d=663477953&t=a

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