16-State Coalition Awards INRIX Ground Breaking, Multi-Million Dollar Contract for...

16-State Coalition Awards INRIX Ground Breaking, Multi-Million Dollar Contract
for Delivery of Real-Time Traffic Information for the I-95 Corridor
Landmark, multi-state vehicle probe data collection initiative to use INRIX
traffic from GPS-enabled vehicles and road sensors from New Jersey to North
Carolina; potential expansion could include states from Maine to Florida

KIRKLAND, Wash., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- INRIX(R) has been awarded a
multi-million dollar, multi-year contract by the I-95 Corridor Coalition to
provide travel time and speed data on a network of U.S. highways and arterials
-- across borders and beyond state boundaries -- that contribute to interstate
movement along the I-95 Corridor. The initial system will span from New Jersey
to North Carolina covering approximately 1500 center line miles of freeways
and 1000 center line miles of major arterials and is projected to be
operational in mid-2008. Ultimately the system may expand throughout the
entire eastern seaboard.
(Photo: here)
(Photo: here)
INRIX was awarded the contract as a result of a competitive solicitation
process conducted by the University of Maryland on behalf of the I-95 Corridor
Coalition and its member agencies. The solicitation process began officially
in early 2007 with release of a Request for Proposals and concluded in
December with a sole contract award to INRIX. The I-95 Corridor Coalition
region handles 565 million long distance trips, 5.3 billion tons of freight,
represents $3.95 trillion of the Gross Domestic Product and is equivalent to
the third largest economy in the world (1).
The real-time traffic data to be provided will be available to the I-95
Corridor Coalition and its members in mid-2008 and is targeted to support
various applications including travel time on signs, 511 systems, incident
management systems, Internet-based traveler information services, congestion
performance measures, and other planning and operations applications. The
INRIX Smart Dust Network and INRIX Traffic Fusion Engine provide a unique
platform to deliver the project by aggregating and blending traffic data from
a variety of sources including over 750,000 GPS-enabled vehicles and
traditional road sensors. This highly accurate method allows for the delivery
of best-available traffic information and is an extremely scalable and
cost-effective program that provides the Coalition with many of the highly
desired and preferred elements sought in the RFP. Specifically, the INRIX
method of collecting and delivering this real-time traffic data presents the
opportunity to grow coverage into state highways and arterials to other
regions within the Coalition without the need for the deployment of expensive
new road-side equipment.
"The member agencies of our 16-state Coalition identified multi-state
availability of real-time traffic data as a key element of achieving our goal
to improve transportation services through information sharing and coordinated
management and operations," said George Schoener, Executive Director, I-95
Corridor Coalition. "We selected INRIX as they had the ability to
specifically deliver the coverage and quality of the traffic information we
require for this significant initiative. INRIX real-time traffic data will
support the development of seamless networks of corridor-wide traveler
information systems and support the coordination and implementation of
interagency efforts in response to major incidents and special events."
The project, and INRIX's approach, is ground-breaking in a variety of
ways. The I-95 Corridor Coalition initiative is the largest implementation of
real-time traffic flow data sharing across a multi-state region and the first
multi-state project leveraging GPS vehicle probes and traditional road sensor
information. With the Indefinite Deliver, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract
initially slated for a period of three years (with the opportunity to extend
the contract length up to ten years), it is designed to accommodate additional
task orders to expand coverage, integrate data into existing systems or create
applications to use data as the Coalition and/or a specific agency member
desires.
With well over 12,000 center line miles of freeways in the 16-state region
spanning from Maine to Florida, this contract could evolve into the largest
network of its kind, by far. INRIX has offered several additional data
enhancement options for the Coalition and/or its agency members to consider if
additional source data is desired to improve or expand coverage. PBS&J, a
nationally recognized architecture-engineering-construction services and
program management consulting firm, under subcontract to INRIX, is leading a
multi-disciplinary team that will assist the Coalition and its members in an
on-call basis for data integration, application development and data analysis
tasks.
Another distinctive element of the project is that pricing for expansion
of coverage, enhanced data options and consulting resources have been
established in the base contract, greatly simplifying task order creation.
"The award of this contract by the I-95 Corridor Coalition is a
significant milestone for public-private partnerships of real-time traffic
information," said INRIX president and CEO Bryan Mistele. "We applaud the
Coalition and its member agencies for the foresight to establish such a bold
corridor-wide project and we look forward to our collaboration."
About I-95 Corridor Coalition
The I-95 Corridor Coalition is a partnership of transportation agencies,
toll authorities, and related organizations, including public safety, port,
transit and rail organizations -- from the State of Maine to the State of
Florida -- working together to improve long distance travel for passengers and
freight. For more information, visit www.i95coalition.org.
About PBS&J
PBS&J (http://www.pbsj.com) is an employee-owned company that provides
infrastructure planning, engineering, construction management, architecture,
and program management services to public and private clients. The firm is
ranked by Engineering News-Record as 25th among the nation's top consulting
firms. PBS&J has 4,000 employees and more than 80 offices across the United
States and abroad.
About INRIX
INRIX(R) is the leading provider of accurate real time, historical and
predictive traffic information nationwide, providing over 40 industry partners
and customers including Clear Channel Radio's Total Traffic Network, deCarta,
MapQuest, Microsoft, TCS, Tele Atlas, TeleNav, Telmap, Tom Tom and others with
the highest quality data and broadest coverage available for personal
navigation, mapping, 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, going well beyond the limitations of static road sensor networks,
historical-based models and cellular data aggregators, to offer customers the
most sophisticated understanding of the unique system-wide traffic patterns in
each metropolitan area. Additionally, INRIX offers real-time for 117 markets
in the U.S. and the U.K. and incident data for 122 markets across the country.
To experience the traffic technology revolution behind the next generation of
navigation and location-based service applications, visit
www.inrix.com.
(1) i95 Corridor Coalition brochure;
here

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