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This 7.5th Floor story points to a Mercury News article on Inrix, a company that will provide traffic information from pooling GPS data from vehicles. From the article: "Inrix, a Microsoft spin-off, will deliver traffic information gathered from more than a half-million ``sentinel'' commercial vehicles, equipped with GPS locators, to improve the speed and accuracy of its traffic-flow information, company representatives said last week."
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Inrix Predictive and Real-Time Traffic Service from Multiple Sources
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All Points Blog discuss a new service by Inrix which provide predictive and real-time traffic service for Windows Mobile devices. This site indicates which information is used: "Inrix acquires real-time and historical sensor data from hundreds of public and private sources including anonymous, real-time GPS probe data from more than 625,000 commercial fleet, delivery and taxi vehicles; toll tag data; and occupancy and speed measurements from Department of Transportation sensor networks. Additionally, the Inrix Smart Dust Network aggregates real-time incidents and hundreds of market-specific criteria that affect traffic – such as construction and road closures, sporting and entertainment events, school schedules and weather forecasts." See the numerous related stories below.
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