INRIX today announced a contract with Telvent to provide additional traffic information for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s forthcoming 511 service. Through the new agreement, INRIX will provide real-time traffic data, traffic flow information and travel times for key routes on nearly 800 miles of Pennsylvania roadway in the Harrisburg, Scranton, Allentown, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. INRIX now provides traffic data to departments of transportation and other agencies in 12 states, covering more than 5,000 centerline miles of road.

Telvent and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation selected INRIX for this project, building upon INRIX’s provision of traffic data in the commonwealth through the I-95 Corridor Coalition Vehicle Probe Project – the nation’s largest private traffic data contract. The expanded roadways for which INRIX will provide traffic information for “511 Pennsylvania” will also be available for monitoring and integration by neighboring states and all member agencies of the I-95 Corridor Coalition to better plan and coordinate regional travel information provision and agency response to incidents.

Telvent will integrate INRIX’s traffic data into “511 Pennsylvania,” which will be available to the public this summer via the Internet and a free 511 telephone number.

“We are excited to see our traffic data expand across Pennsylvania,” said Rick Schuman, vice president public sector, INRIX. “The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s choice to tap INRIX speaks to the revolution taking place in the use of traffic flow data by transportation agencies.”

INRIX Real-Time Traffic is available to over 250 million people across 126 metropolitan North American markets and covers 160,000 miles of roads in North America. The traffic technology company is able to provide the nation’s broadest and most accurate real-time traffic information by leveraging the INRIX Fusion engine which intelligently blends real-time data from nearly a million GPS-enabled taxis, service vehicles, airport shuttle services and other commercial vehicles as well as consumer cellular GPS-based devices and traditional road sensor information. INRIX Total Fusion Traffic provides speed information on nearly 1,000,000 miles of roadways, including busy city streets and arterials, in addition to freeways and highways across the U.S

Why this announcement is important:

1. INRIX continues to be the nation’s leading traffic data service provider to transportation agencies. The company now provides traffic information to departments of transportation and other agencies in 12 states, covering over 5000 centerline miles of road.

2. Pennsylvania is a key state with innovative ITS initiatives, including the statewide 511 Pennsylvania solution rolling out this summer. INRIX’s selection by PennDOT and Telvent over other traffic data providers further validates INRIX’s unique approach to delivering high quality, real-time traffic information.

3. Pennsylvania is a member of the I-95 Corridor Coalition. The 511 Pennsylvania project leverages the I-95 Vehicle Probe Project – the nation’s largest private traffic data contract – and expands roads covered under the project to nearly 800 miles across the state, including whether a road is or is not monitored by roadside sensors.

4. INRIX’s collaboration with Telvent, a leading transportation systems integrator, is an important new partnership in the public sector market for ITS projects around the world.

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INRIX has deployed an array of real-time data services that can be leveraged across a variety of connected devices and applications. Traffic will always be a core INRIX Connected Service, however we have started to leverage our traffic information in a variety of other scenarios, including traffic-influenced routing.

With the imminent launch of Ford SYNC with Traffic, Directions and Information the public will begin to experience INRIX's revolutionary 3rd Generation Routing engine that leverages our high-quality real-time and predictive traffic information to ensure the fastest and most accurate routes are delivered to navigation devices. Learn about this 3rd Generation Off-board Routing platform and the scenarios and opportunities for leveraging connected navigation platforms both in and out of vehicles.

We had such significant attendance and interest in our recent webinar Benchmarking Traffic Data Quality: Best Practices for Analyzing the Quality of Traffic Information, that we decide to prepare a technical follow up on this important topic.

INRIX's Senior Scientist, Chris Scofield, will deliver an in-depth discussion of the nature of INRIX traffic and the vagaries and intricacies of creating high quality traffic information. He will then provide a detailed discussion of some of the techniques of evaluating the quality of traffic data and the usefulness of the specific techniques depending on the scenario and application of the traffic information.

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 -- provides an executive summary of the report findings.

Benchmarking Traffic Data Quality (Click 'View Event Recording')

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.

Using INRIX Traffic Tile Overlays to Create Traffic Maps (Click 'View Event Recording')

Easily create traffic maps using new INRIX Connected Services functionality for creating a traffic overlay on your map of choice. This hosted service offering allows for an application to make an API request to INRIX and receive back a semi-transparent overlay image of INRIX Traffic flow for display on top of a map.

This webinar, hosted by Technical Account Manager Jason Kheriaty and Sr. Director of Product Management Ken Kranseler, will demonstrate how INRIX Traffic Tiles allow for applications to easily add traffic as a layer on top of their existing maps. Tile sizes are configurable by customer to fit your application and map projection style. Multiple types of traffic are available via this overlay service including INRIX Real-time, Historical and Total Fusion Traffic.

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