Inrix - Nationwide Average Speeds

location based services

Inrix is using their Dust Network of fleet vehicles to figure out what the average speed is on US roads. They didn’t just compute the average speed, but figured out the average speed by time of day, while taking into account things like weather, seasonality and major events (like that big game at the local stadium). So while this database must be huge, it can be used in fleet management type applications, and plugs into data provided by the leading map data providers, NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas. I don’t know what the database size is, but one has to think that this data will someday find its way to your GPS. So while live traffic feed data can cover major highways, they can’t always get you information on secondary roads, this data could help your GPS figure out what the best way to your destination given the wacky nature of traffic.
Press Release Follows:Inrix today announced the addition of 'Nationwide Average Speeds' to its leading portfolio of traffic information services, further ensuring the company's unique position as the first and only provider of accurate historical, real-time and predictive traffic information nationwide.
Inrix 'Nationwide Average Speeds' service provides highly accurate historical road speed information, by time of day and day of week, for the entire national highway network and secondary roads including all U.S. metropolitan markets, as well as interstates, arterials and side streets. Inrix has analyzed and normalized the historical speed information to deliver the highest degree of accuracy available and account for the impact of major events, seasonality, weather, incidents and other variables that impact traffic.
While many consumer, fleet management and transportation planning applications rely heavily on posted speed limits and incident data for time estimation and routing, Inrix 'Nationwide Average Speeds' service offers customers highly accurate travel estimates and dynamic routing based on the average driving speed for any road, any day and any time.
Inrix 'Nationwide Average Speeds' is ideal for offline applications requiring broad coverage for time estimation or routing capabilities such as automotive navigation, fleet logistics and transportation planning. 'Nationwide Average Speeds' features support for leading Tele Atlas and NAVTEQ map databases and can be easily combined with real-time speed information, making it ideal for consumer applications on connected devices as well. "Accurate real-time and predictive traffic information is vital for today's enterprise and consumer navigation solutions," said Inrix President and CEO Bryan Mistele. "Only Inrix offers nationwide coverage and a complete suite of data services to meet the diverse needs of customers across a broad variety of channels including automotive, commercial, mobile, portable navigation and the Web."
Inrix now has the most comprehensive suite of traffic solutions available, including real-time and predictive speed information for 40 major metropolitan markets across the U.S., traffic incident information for 138 metropolitan markets, and historical road speed information for the entire U.S. road network.
Derived from Inrix's ground-breaking 'Smart Dust Network,' 'Nationwide Average Speeds' leverages the power of real-time and historical speed information for more than 500,000 commercial fleet vehicles, delivery trucks and taxis across the U.S. Inrix analyzes billions of data points from hundreds of data sources across the country to produce the broadest, most accurate nationwide traffic coverage available.
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