Webinars

INRIX National Traffic Scorecard 2009 Annual Report

In late February, 2010, INRIX released the 160-page INRIX National Traffic Scorecard 2009 Annual Report, identifying that the significant drop in congestion that began in late 2007/early 2008 is over and that congestion nationwide is likely "as good as it gets" barring an unforeseen further softening of the economy or major fuel price shock. The severe recession and associated job loss has turned back the clock on congestion to levels likely last seen in 2004 or 2005.

By analyzing traffic on major highways in the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas, the Scorecard provides the most comprehensive and national scale glimpse into the intractable issues of urban traffic congestion. Among hundreds of findings, the report identifies that 75 of the 100 largest metropolitan areas still have less congestion than in 2006 and that 30 minute commutes in 2009 averaged 22 hours of annual travel time delay nationwide.

Additionally, INRIX will provide a snapshot of commercial freight traffic concentration across America, leveraging unique analysis from its vast data warehouse.

This webinar -- hosted by Rick Schuman, the report author and INRIX Vice President of Public Sector -- will provide an executive summary of the report findings and analysis of issues to watch in 2010.

Using the INRIX Mobile Gateway to Create Mobile Applications

Some mobile app developers need to get to market rapidly with an easy and secure way to provision mobile device applications with traffic and other LBS functionality. The new INRIX Connected Services Mobile Gateway allows app developers to utilize device self-registration for an elegant security approach for the provisioning of their mobile apps.

This technical webinar, hosted by Technical Account Manager Jason Kheriaty, will demonstrate how to manage the provisioning of new mobile application users, employing device level registration and authentication. Utilize the INRIX Connected Services traffic and LBS APIs available in the INRIX Mobile Gateway to easily build your mobile application

Getting Started with INRIX Connected Services

Technical Account Manager Jason Kheriaty hosts this webinar providing a jumpstart for INRIX customers and partners to use INRIX Connected Services. Designed for developers and solution integrators, this technical workshop will introduce the suite of INRIX Connected Services available, include a live demonstration of the INRIX Developer Zone, and provide a walkthrough of the technical interface for executing an INRIX Connected Services API. The webinar will give you the foundation necessary to get started with your technical integration of INRIX Connected Services.

INRIX National Traffic Scorecard Mid-Year 2009 Special Report

INRIX has released the INRIX National Traffic Scorecard Mid-Year 2009 Special Report, calling a "bottom in traffic gridlock." Traffic congestion across the country is rising due to signs of economic recovery, initial rollouts of highway construction projects funded by federal stimulus packages, and lower fuel prices. In fact, 64 of the top 100 most populated cities in the U.S. experienced increases in traffic congestion levels in early 2009.

This webinar -- hosted by Rick Schuman, the report author and INRIX Vice President of Public Sector -- will provide an executive summary of the report findings.

How Crowdsourcing GPS Data Is Radically Changing the Traffic Information Landscape

INRIX is a leading innovator in crowdsourcing technologies and techniques. The company was founded in 2005 on the premise that traditional methods of collecting traffic information from road sensors and broadcast radio stations could not provide a scalable approach to delivering high quality traffic information across the complex road networks of North America and Europe. With increasing market demand for premium quality traffic information from navigation software and hardware companies, auto OEMs, transportation agencies, and commercial fleets, INRIX recognized that a dramatically new approach to aggregating, analyzing and distributing traffic was required.

INRIX VP of Marketing Scott Sedlik will discuss the company's breakthrough crowdsourcing technologies, methods, and business models for providing drivers instant access to the most comprehensive and reliable traffic and routing information available. He will share a case study on the challenges and lessons learned with crowdsourcing live GPS data from user communities, including how crowdsourcing is helping customers like Ford provide the best driver experience possible for turn-by-turn routing and traffic alerts in the recently introduced Ford SYNC with Traffic, Directions & Information.

Today INRIX crowdsources real-time traffic information from over 1.3 million commercial and consumer vehicles and GPS-enabled smartphones and connected devices across North America and Europe. Each driver in the INRIX Smart Driver Network sends anonymous "GPS probe" data to INRIX servers, which intelligently combine the information with billions of real-time speed data points from other drivers in the network and road sensor information from Departments of Transportation across the country. Billions of data points every day enable INRIX to continuously and instantaneously update traffic resulting in the most accurate current and forecast traffic information available anywhere.

INRIX and Delivery of Connected Services

The best of connected services are only valuable to consumers if they can actually receive them. The world of connectivity of data is evolving rapidly with ever-expanding options and costs. While this increases the flexibility of service providers, it also makes for a very complicated world of decisions and models.

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 that optimize the connectivity options. What are the benefits and disadvantages of 1-way and 2-way networks - Data over Voice, RDS-TMC, HD, Satellite, GPRS/GSM, Hybrid -- to devices in the car?

This webinar will provide some insight into the options available for connecting to content and the trade-offs and scenarios that can help to optimize the customer experience.

• What choices are available for connecting your in-vehicle experience
• The trade-offs you face with each connectivity choice
• Real-world examples of connected in-vehicle experiences
• The costs and considerations you face in deciding to create a connected experience
• Key next steps for leveraging real-time information in your in-vehicle experience

INRIX Connected Services and 3rd Generation Routing

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.

Understanding INRIX Traffic Data and Techniques for Evaluating

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.

INRIX National Traffic Scorecard 2008 Annual Report

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.