Inrix wins I-95 traffic info contract

The I-95 Corridor Coalition, which is responsible for traffic management throughout the east of the US, is expected to confirm today that Inrix will provide its multi-million dollar, multi-year traffic information service. The project is claimed to be the world’s largest implementation of real-time traffic flow data sharing across a multi-state region and the first multi-state project leveraging GPS vehicle probes and traditional road sensor information.

Inrix will equip fleets of vehicles with GPS units and data transmission devices, aggregate their location information and then use satellite radio to beam it to traffic control centers.

The initial system will span from New Jersey to North Carolina covering approximately 1,500 miles of freeways and 1,000 miles of major arterial routes. It is due to be operational in mid-2008 and may ultimately expand throughout the country’s entire eastern seaboard.
 
Inrix will supply real-time traffic data to the I-95 Corridor Coalition and its members from mid-2008. It will be used to provide travel time on signs, and to support 511 systems, incident management systems, Internet-based traveler information services, congestion performance measures, and other planning and operations applications.

Inrix will use its Smart Dust Network and Traffic Fusion Engine to aggregate traffic data from a variety of sources including over 750,000 GPS-enabled vehicles and traditional road sensors. The company claims this method of collecting and delivering real-time traffic data enables the Coalition to expand coverage to state highways, arterials and to other regions within the Coalition without deploying expensive road-side equipment.
 
“Inrix real-time traffic data will support the development of seamless networks of corridor-wide traveler information systems and support the coordination and implementation of interagency efforts in response to major incidents and special events,” says George Schoener, Executive Director, I-95 Corridor Coalition.
 
The initial contract will last for three years, extendable up to 10 years.

The Coalition is responsible for over 12,000 center line miles of freeways in a 16-state region spanning from Maine to Florida.

PBS&J, the architecture-engineering-construction services and program management consulting firm, has been subcontract by Inrix to assist the Coalition and its members in data integration, application development and data analysis tasks.

29 January 2008