INRIX®, the leading provider of traffic and navigation services, today 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.
