Speed Profiles for Taiwan First to Use Community Input in Asia to Help Drivers
Identify Optimal Routes and More Accurately Estimate Travel Times
SINGAPORE--(Business Wire)--
Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for
navigation and location based solutions, today announced the availability of
Tele Atlas Speed Profiles in Taiwan, the first complete historic speed product
in Asia built with insight from local drivers that enables navigation system
users find the fastest routes and far more accurately estimate travel times.
Speed Profiles for Taiwan provides drivers with unique insight into real world
traffic patterns across the country`s complete navigable road network. With
Speed Profiles, drivers can make the best route choices that normally only
well-informed locals would select and in turn, also save valuable time and
money.
With congested roadways and ever-increasing travel times, users of mapping
applications are seeking better ways to travel efficiently, minimize
transportation costs and find the optimal routes to their destinations. Speed
Profiles aggregates and enhances real speed data from GPS-enabled devices, using
consumer driving patterns to provide true average speeds on individual road
segments. In contrast, traditional systems use standardized estimates to
calculate routes, ignoring hurdles such as traffic lights, school hours and
rotaries that can severely impact travel times. Speed Profiles for Taiwan is
Tele Atlas` first community-based offering outside of North America and Europe,
highlighting the expanding and ever more global role of community in advancing
navigation and location-based solutions.
"With Speed Profiles, our regional customers can now deliver solutions that help
consumers save time and money, consume less fuel and help preserve the
environment, as well as help businesses cut transportation and logistics costs,"
said Rik Temmink, Vice President of Product Management, Tele Atlas. "This is
especially important in densely populated countries like Taiwan, whose traffic
jams are some of the most complex and chaotic in the world. We are excited to
extend availability of this unique and powerful product to Asia and to be the
first to deliver a complete solution in the region based on historical driving
information."
Speed Profiles enables route calculations based on highly comprehensive
historical travel time and measured speed information. Tele Atlas Speed Profiles
is available in 27 countries and territories, covering 35 million kilometers of
both directions of roads. The version for Taiwan includes 211,000 kilometers and
complete coverage of the navigable road network.
About Tele Atlas
Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power many of the
world`s most essential navigation and location-based services (LBS). Through a
combination of its own products and partnerships, Tele Atlas offers map coverage
of more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company was founded in
1984 and has offices in 27 countries around the world. Today, Tele Atlas
products are developed with the insight of a community of millions of digital
map users worldwide, who are adding to the company`s unmatched network of
sources to track and validate changes in real time, and deliver the best digital
maps and dynamic content. For more information, visit www.teleatlas.com or
http://investors.tomtom.com/index.cfm. Tele Atlas is a subsidiary of TomTom N.V.
(AEX: TOM2).
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