INRIX®, the leading provider of traffic and navigation services, today announced the availability of INRIX Real-Time Traffic Flow for over 50,000 kilometers across 6 European countries and the roll-out of pan-European traffic flow by early 2010. INRIX traffic services are designed for integration with advanced navigation and traffic services on mobile and vehicle-based navigation systems and are deployed by customers including the Ford Motor Company, TomTom, Telmap, Microsoft, TeleNav, and over 80 other leading companies. INRIX also published the results of traffic data quality testing completed this summer across roadway networks in major European cities in a special updated report, Benchmarking Traffic Data Quality: Best Practices for Analyzing the Quality of Traffic Information.

Traffic flow coverage from INRIX is now available in Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Luxemburg and the UK. Expanded coverage for additional countries and roads across Western Europe will continue to launch throughout 2009.

"High quality pan-European traffic information simply does not exist today," said Bryan Mistele, INRIX president and CEO. "We are working hard to change that, as we did in the U.S., by leveraging key strategic partnerships, using our proven sophisticated technologies and applying our unique and scalable crowd-sourcing model to the aggregation of traffic information."

The launch of INRIX Real Time Flow in Europe follows extensive ground truth testing in June 2009, with drivers across major European cities in key markets. Achieving comparable high quality results to coverage currently provided in North America, INRIX’s extensive traffic data quality processes in Europe are focused on managing its extensive portfolio of GPS-enabled data providers and monitoring, testing, and executing efforts to continuously improve the overall quality of its services.

INRIX’s Benchmarking Traffic Data Quality guide is now available for Europe and includes its European testing results. Designed for automobile OEMs, transportation agencies, wireless carriers and developers of location-based services, the guide showcases best practices, metrics and INRIX thought leadership on the important topic of traffic data quality.

INRIX delivers the broadest and most accurate real-time traffic information through its distinctive crowd-sourced traffic information network and data fusion technologies. INRIX intelligently blends billions of real-time data points from over one million GPS-enabled commercial and consumer devices and traditional road sensor information.

"To meet the needs of our international customers, INRIX is building best-of-breed traffic services with superior but homogenous data quality across Europe and a standardized commercial platform and interface for delivery of services," said Hans-Hendrik Puvogel, general manager of INRIX Europe. "Leveraging our profound technical expertise and intensely collaborative approach with partners and customers, we will exploit the full potential of connected services in Europe with real-time traffic flow and related solutions."

In mid-July, INRIX announced the availability of INRIX Historical Traffic Speeds for Europe. Designed for use in routing and travel time applications for mobile and vehicle-based navigation systems, INRIX Historical Traffic Speeds encompasses accurate speed information for over 420,000 kilometers across roadway networks in Germany, France, the U.K., Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemburg. Expanded coverage for additional countries and roads across Western Europe will be available soon.

“During the past several years, INRIX has aggressively built out pan-European traffic coverage through significant product development and strategic partnerships in key countries,” said Bryan Mistele, INRIX president and CEO. “With our dominant market position secure in North America, we are now able to deliver on traffic and navigation services throughout Europe, meeting the needs of our customers for international solutions.”

INRIX delivers the broadest and most accurate real-time traffic information through its distinctive crowd-sourced traffic information network and data fusion technologies. INRIX intelligently blends billions of real-time data points from over one million GPS-enabled commercial and consumer devices and traditional road sensor information.

“The scale of our crowd-sourced network of speed data from GPS-enabled commercial and consumer vehicles and devices, as well as our partnerships across Europe, is driving the availability of new INRIX traffic services such as our historical traffic speeds product,” said Hans-Hendrik Puvogel, general manager of INRIX Europe. “We are excited about collaborating with automotive OEMs and mobile navigation providers to provide innovative services for their next generation traffic and navigation solutions.”

INRIX customers have licensed INRIX Historical Traffic Speeds for Europe and North America for integration with a wide variety of current and soon-to-be-released applications including vehicle navigation systems, fleet and logistics planning solutions, and portable navigation devices. INRIX Historical Traffic Speeds for North America encompasses average speeds on nearly one million miles of roadways across major freeways, highways, urban and rural arterials and side streets in the U.S. and Canada.

INRIX today published an update to its popular Benchmarking Traffic Data Quality: Best Practices for Analyzing the Quality of Traffic Information. The 60+ page guide now incorporates European ground truth testing results from 2009. In a further industry effort to demystify the quality analysis of traffic information, Designed for automobile OEMs, transportation agencies, wireless carriers and developers of location-based services to showcase best practices, metrics and INRIX thought leadership on the important topic of traffic data quality.

This technical primer on traffic data quality provides a benchmark from which to evaluate the many components that make up the quality of traffic information. The report describes the processes and methods INRIX uses to validate, measure and verify the quality of incoming traffic reporting data. In addition, it outlines best practices for the planning and execution of ground truth testing of traffic flow data, including the results of tests conducted by INRIX and its partners.

Benchmarking Traffic Data Quality includes European testing results and an executive summary of the I-95 Corridor Coalition quality validation in North American. It is immediately available at www.inrix.com.

A new website, www.i95travelinfo.org, now offers live traffic speed information on major roadways in the region from New Jersey to North Carolina. Additionally, based on real-time traffic speeds, the website provides both the current and normal travel times between various cities, airports, and other landmarks on key routes in the multi-state region.

To receive travel time information, users only need to select their starting point and destination from of list of pre-defined locations on the "Travel Time" page. This information can be particularly helpful to long-distance travelers as they prepare to navigate through and around major cities in the Mid-Atlantic region.

The I-95 Corridor Travel Time Information website is one element of the SafeTrip-21 initiative under way by the United States Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration, in partnership with the I-95 Corridor Coalition. The USDOT SafeTrip-21 program supports the use of advanced technology to improve safety and to reduce gridlock on America's roadways.

As INRIX has created its world-class Connected Service platform featuring real-time and predictive traffic as well as the first 3rd Generation Routine Engine, we have worked to optimize the configurations and scenarios for a suite of device connectivity options. This webinar will provide insight into the options available for connecting to in-car content -- including broadcast, 2-way connected, and hybrid solutions -- and the trade-offs and scenarios that can help to optimize the customer experience.

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

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

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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