Microsoft to use Inrix Traffic Data
Big news out of the Inrix shop today, as they have now partnered with Microsoft to have the Inrix traffic data used across the Microsoft platforms and web outlets. I would imagine that this could likely include Windows Live Search / Virtual Earth, MSN direct and other internet related sites as well as for use in desktop applications such as Streets & Trips and Outlook, and across mobile applications such as Live Local Search. Microsoft currently uses Traffic.com for the traffic data.
“Consumers are pining after ways to minimize the time spent stuck in traffic, locating a business or simply getting home after work,” said Ziya Genceren, Live Search Maps product manager at Microsoft Corp. “INRIX’s approach to real time, historic and predictive traffic information offers a level of accuracy and reliability that brings value to our customers.”
This should be a good first glimpse to the broad public of what the future of traffic reporting can be like. I do look forward to the day that historical average speed data can be held in my dash-mounted GPS….. someday soon I hope.
Inrix also announced that the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) will look for INRIX to provide real time traffic flow data for nearly 250 centerline miles of US 41, I-43, and WIS 172. This milestone makes INRIX the first company to provide operational vehicle-probe based traffic data services to a government agency. Wisconsin DOT is now integrating INRIX data into its Traffic Management software.
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Posted by Scott Martin at September 5, 2007 10:20 PM
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