INRIX’s National Traffic Scored 2009 Annual Report provides year over year insight into traffic patterns nationally. The high level point is that traffic dropped 30% starting in late 2007, bottomed in Q2’09 and is on the rise again. This pace of this rise though is driven in large part ‘by the pace of economic recovery [...]
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INRIX 2009 National Traffic Scorecard
March 3rd, 2010 
Jeff Shariat 
Posted in Etc..., LBS, News 
Tags: inrix, LBS, real-time data, real-time traffic, tech, Telematics 
1 Comment »‘What is Telematics?’ Infographic
February 4th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Telematics Update (there is no byline so I can’t give a shout out to the creator) has a cool little interactive infographic explaining the different layers and categories of telematics. It’s not meant to be exhaustive, but it does cover the basis of telematics pretty well. From the core of hardware and providers to enabling [...]
Ford Sync Feature Spotlight: Traffic, Directions and Information (TDI)
January 25th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Ford recently announced a the new Traffic, Directions and Information (TDI) app for the Ford Sync system. From Ford’s Press Release: SYNC TDI leverages a customer’s existing mobile phone; includes an integrated GPS receiver to connect customers to real-time turn-by-turn driving directions, traffic reports and business searches; offers extra features and applications such as favorite [...]
Posted in CES, Emerging Tech, Ford Sync / Touch Tags: CES, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, gps, LBS, real, real-time data, real-time traffic, Sync 1 Comment »From TechtoLiveBy: Heat Index – 4 Technologies to Watch in 2010
January 6th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Sister site TechtoLiveBy.com highlights 4 consumer technologies to watch in 2010: 4G Wireless, 3D, GeoLocation, and Google. Of the 4 3D is the one that wont have any near term impact (if ever) on the automotive telematics market. We’ve already discussed one way Google is shaping the future of real-time traffic and the additonal handsets [...]
Posted in CES, Emerging Tech, LBS, Telematics Tags: 2010, 3D, CES, gps, incident data, LBS, real-time traffic, traffic, twitter Comments Off
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