INRIX Announces Total Fusion Traffic

Combines real-time, historical and predictive traffic data to provide
comprehensive coverage on more than 800,000 miles of road across the U.S.

KIRKLAND, Wash., May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- INRIX(R), the leading provider of
traffic information, today announced the availability of INRIX Total Fusion,
the first traffic data service that intelligently combines real-time,
predictive and historical traffic information to provide speeds for busy city
streets and congested arterials in addition to major freeways and the entire
interstate highway system. Leveraging the company's unique real-time
information it gathers from over 800,000 GPS-enabled taxis, service vehicles,
airport shuttle services and other commercial vehicles as well as consumer
cellular GPS-based devices traveling on intra- and inter-city roads, INRIX
Total Fusion delivers the most accurate speeds available across 800,000 miles
of roadways across the U.S. The solution is available as part of INRIX
Connected Services, announced separately today.
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INRIX Total Fusion traffic can be easily integrated with navigation
applications and advanced route planning solutions to determine accurate
arrival time estimates, optimal routes, the best time to start a route, or
even trigger alerts on traffic changes enroute. Using the new INRIX Developer
Zone and application programming interfaces (APIs), automobile and portable
navigation device OEMs can gain direct access to the best available traffic
information for nearly a million miles of roads.
"Our customers have been asking us to provide the best available traffic
information we have on major arterials and downtown city streets, along with
our coverage of freeways and highways," commented Bryan Mistele, INRIX
president and CEO. "INRIX's bellwether approach to traffic information
technology, along with years of research and data mining, has made it
first-to-market with this breakthrough in traffic coverage,"
INRIX Total Fusion will be available in June, 2008 on the new INRIX
Developer Zone at devzone.inrix.com, announced separately today.
About INRIX Connected Services
INRIX Connected Services platform offers an unparalleled suite of content
and routing services providing navigation OEMs and location-based service
application developers with private label, go-to-market solutions for
in-vehicle, personal navigation device (PND), wireless phone and other
connected devices. The INRIX Connected Services platform encompasses the
world's first 'third generation' routing engine, dynamic traffic data covering
800,000 miles of roadways, additional location-relevant content, and a
developer zone designed to greatly simplify creation of location-based service
applications.
About INRIX
INRIX(R) is the leading provider of accurate real-time, historical and
predictive traffic information in North America and Europe, with over 50
customers and industry partners including TomTom, MapQuest, Microsoft, Clear
Channel Radio's Total Traffic Network, TeleNav, I-95 Corridor Coalition, Tele
Atlas, deCarta, ITIS Holdings, Mio, Navigon, TCS, Telmap, ANWB, ARC
Transistance, and TNO. INRIX delivers the highest quality data and broadest
coverage available for personal navigation, mapping, telematics and other
location-based service applications in the car, online and on mobile devices.
INRIX Traffic Services leverage sophisticated statistical analysis
techniques, originally developed by Microsoft Research, to aggregate and
enhance traffic-related information from hundreds of public and private
sources, including traditional road sensors and the company's unique network
of over 800,000 GPS-enabled vehicles and cellular probes. INRIX delivers
traffic information today for over 100 markets in North America and via ARC
Transistance for 16 European countries. To experience the traffic technology
revolution behind the next generation of navigation and location-based service
applications, visit http://www.inrix.com.
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other countries.
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K. Michele Large of INRIX, +1-425-284-3854, Michele@inrix.com