Inrix, a provider of mobility analytics and connected car services, has been selected by The Eastern Transportation Coalition (TETC) in the USA as the exclusive vendor to support all dataset categories in its traffic data marketplace (TDM).
The TDM provides TETC member agencies an opportunity to select from prequalified vendors in six different dataset categories: travel time and speed, origin-destination, freight, waypoint, volume, and conflation.
Inrix currently publishes travel time and speed data for 500,000 miles, volume data for 1.1 million miles, and generates aggregated and anonymous origin-destination/waypoint data for over 40 million trips daily in the TETC region.
Inrix also offers conflation services in partnership with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), a research agency specialising in geospatial data and analysis.
“As we begin our 15th year supporting the TETC and its member agencies with our travel time and speed data, we are thrilled to be able to expand our innovation further into new datasets and insights,” said Bryan Mistele, co-founder and CEO of Inrix.
“With one of the nation’s most robust source data, derived from tens of millions of connected passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and mobile devices, INRIX looks forward to continued collaboration on ground-breaking cost-effective mobility data uses.
The TDM has its origins in the vehicle probe project (VPP), which began in 2008 with the primary goal of providing TETC members with the ability to acquire reliable, real-time travel time and speed data for their entire roadway network without the need for sensors and other hardware.
Inrix was the original VPP service provider and has supported TETC since 2008. Some 10 statewide agencies, with nearly 75 million in collective population, license Inrix services through the VPP to help streamline daily operations, improve safety, pinpoint investments, and deliver better traveller services.
“Inrix data has been integral to helping TETC members prove that scalable, virtual infrastructure is possible – and in many cases preferred – over investing in physical infrastructure,” said Denise Markow, director, TSMO programme of The Eastern Transportation Coalition.
“We appreciate their service expansion to address all TDM dataset categories desired by our members.”
The TDM will be active for the next four years, with the potential for eight years in total if all option periods are utilised.
