We just received a new U.S. patent # 7,610,145 in October 2009 focusing on our alerts and forecasts solutions.
Beat the Traffic determines the optimal travel route and recommends departure time based on, among other things, destination, and arrival time and changing traffic conditions.
You can input a starting location, a destination, a desired arrival time and other optional attributes such as maximum desired speed and vehicle type. Using a database of predictive road speeds and a routing engine, the Beat the Traffic system determines your optimal route and recommends a departure time for your pre-selected arrival time.
You can also choose how you would like to be alerted (e-mail, SMS, telephone, instant message or other). We will then send you the information through your desired device.
Starting prior to your departure, as well as after you departed, we keep evaluating the suggested route, and we alert you when there is a significant change in the recommended route or forecast.
The availability of such information can significantly reduce your trip time, thereby resulting in increased on-time arrival and an overall reduction of stress!
All the details about this patent can be found on the www.uspto.gov website. Click here to have more details.
In this recent Blog Post on Engadget.com Darren Murph explains
how Katherine Whaley, KHOU’s traffic reporter uses a Wiimote to control the Beat the Traffic graphical system she uses to illustrate her reports.
See another link on the topic KHOU 11 makes Net news for Wii traffic remote.
In a recent post we explained how our technology to control the display using a Wiimote was introduced at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in April 2009.
Barry Fulmer- bfulmer@fox41.com
Bill Lamb- blamb@WDRB.com
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(LOUISVILLE) –WDRB and Fox41.com are happy to announce that they have reached an agreement to work with Beat the Traffic®, a patented traffic solution. Beat the Traffic®’s new and highly innovative traffic reporting system will significantly help Louisville drivers ease their daily commute. The station is the first local television station in Louisville committed to bringing their audience real-time, data-driven traffic reports each week day morning. Beat the Traffic®’s cutting-edge technology will provide a dynamic 3-D perspective of roads and highways displaying current traffic conditions throughout the region. WDRB-TV will display their new system shortly after October 28, 2009.
WDRB 41 viewers, as well as Fox41.com users will benefit from real-time traffic speed information in all of Louisville, which will help better plan their commutes and react to traffic problems. WDRB’s most up-to-the-minute traffic reports will be complemented with instant trip times on key routes such as Interstate 71, 65, and interstate 64.
WDRB 41 will also report significant traffic incidents on other Louisville roadways, leveraging the ease of use and striking graphics of the system. “Traffic is a big challenge in Louisville and our viewers can really use the help WDRB 41 and Fox41.com will provide using the Beat the Traffic® system,” says WDRB News Director, Barry Fulmer. “We chose Beat the Traffic® because it is the only system providing truly real-time traffic speeds in Louisville. The system is also very easy to use and is visually far superior to the competition.” “In addition, the team is a pleasure to work with.”
ABC 30 and abc30.com to Provide More High-Tech Help for Fresno Commuters with 3-D HD Traffic Reports
September 28, 2009
Contacts:
Tracey Watkowski, News Director, Tracey.Watkowski@abc.com
Dan Adams, President and General Manager, Dan.A.Adams@abc.co
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(FRESNO) –ABC 30/KFSN-TV and abc30.com have reached a new agreement to bring Beat the Traffic®’s new traffic reporting system to the station’s viewers and website users. Beat the Traffic®, a traffic solution used by ABC 30 since 2006, is designed to significantly help Fresno drivers ease their daily commute. The latest enhancements — debuting at ABC 30 and abc30.com shortly after Oct. 1 — include a dynamic 3-D HD perspective of roads and highways displaying current traffic conditions throughout the Central Valley.
The new traffic reports in 1080i High Definition are part of ABC 30’s ongoing commitment to offer the Fresno audience the best real-time, data-driven traffic information each weekday morning. ABC 30 will be using the dynamic graphics now available through the Beat the Traffic® system to report significant traffic incidents in Fresno, Visalia, Merced and other local cities.
For more information about Beat the Traffic®, please contact Andre Gueziec at (408) 777-6600 and visit www.beatthetraffic.com and www.trianglesoftware.com. For more information on ABC 30 traffic coverage or other ABC 30 News related items, please contact Tracey Watkowski at Tracey.Watkowski@abc.com.
Did you plan on driving for your Labor Day getaway? Beat the Traffic® may help you!
Plan your trip
Beat the Traffic® provides travel time/ peak times/ forecasts for major routes in cities such as Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Seattle, Phoenix, Denver, Raleigh, etc. with many more cities to come in the next few weeks.
Get alerted
Enter your own routes using your My Traffic account.
Set up your alerts so we can warn you of traffic jams along your way!
Check traffic on-the-go!
Wherever you can safely do so, check live traffic report on your mobile phone!
- Go to www.BeatTheTraffic.mobi using your mobile phone browser
- If you own a BlackBerry, you can download our BlackBerry App
Dennehy writes “Despite the worldwide economic slump, Triangle Software’s Beat the Traffic product is successfully moving in several markets.” Click here for complete newsletter .
For example, the company launched a mobile WAP portal, www.BeatTheTraffic.mobi , which was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal. Gueziec, whose Triangle Software purchased LandSonar in 2008, believes the presentation of traffic information is the company’s strength.
The company offers traffic speeds, incidents, cameras and personalized point-to-point trip times. The Beat the Traffic GPS-based software is powered by Inrix.
Here is what a user wrote to us over the 4th of July weekend:
“When we were stopped in traffic Friday, July 3rd at I-5 near the Westley rest area, I checked NBC Bay Area, KCRA, sigalert.com and the CHP site and couldn’t find any information as of 10:30 a.m. When I googled “best traffic site in northern california” your site popped up and HAD THE INFO on the accident that had happened an hour earlier. You beat everyone else. Thank you and great job!”
(Raleigh, NC and Santa Clara, CA, June 25, 2009) WRAL.com launches on-line, personalized traffic reports to assist harried commuters of the Raleigh-Durham Triangle area.
WRAL just introduced WRAL.com users to Beat the Traffic®, the nation’s fast-growing traffic information platform that will help Raleigh, Durham and Fayetteville drivers ease their commutes. The Triangle metropolitan area has significant traffic congestion issues according to a recent study by the Texas Transportation Institute. The study reports that commuters in Raleigh Durham waste an average of 35 hours per year to congestion-induced traffic delays. This represents an entire work-or leisure-week wasted every single year!
WRAL.com is working to help commuters by offering high-value, innovative traffic reporting using leading-edge technology from Beat the Traffic®. WRAL.com will be the first in the market to feature such innovations as travel time forecasts, and a point to point trip time widget. The timing of the new service coincides with a busy travel period of the 4th of July holiday. Motorists will be able to check the WRAL.com traffic section to avoid accident and construction delays as they head to the beach or mountains.
Beat the Traffic® provides one-screen access to complete information including traffic speeds, incidents, camera snapshots and weather information on WRAL.com/traffic. A new trip-time widget rotates point to point travel times for the Triangle’s key commute routes. The trip time widget is also available on WRAL.com’s home page during peak hours.
Perhaps the most innovative part is the new My Routes personalization feature. WRAL.com visitors can personalize their traffic information by saving their routes on WRAL.com, being informed of instant trip times on their personalized routes and receiving SMS/text alerts on their cell phones or email when delays or incidents occur. Powered by INRIX data, the system’s live traffic coverage has been expanded to cover a large number of routes in the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville area.
..says the narrator of a wonderful Discovery Channel documentary on “Gridlock” that just aired in Canada.
Speaking of personal cars and trucks, the narrator goes further to say: “They’ve taken over the world. Put them end to end and they would circle the globe one hundred times. We created them, we fell in love with them and now we’ve run out of ideas on how to get rid of them”.
The documentary provides a truly international perspective on the traffic congestion that is sprawling through out the world. It shares the experience of commuters in Vancouver and Toronto, of an airborne traffic reporter and a trucking company in Vancouver.
This is followed by an interview of a Faculty Professor in Great Britain specializing in transportation studies. “Gridlock” also evokes the traffic congestion situation in big cities of India and China.
”Innovators see an opportunity. Crunch data from cell phone signals, GPS, road sensors and traffic centers, you can create live graphics for the local TV news. The innovation comes from California where Gridlock is an epidemic. Andre Gueziec [our CEO] things he can help fix it.”
Andre then gives a short interview and demonstration of our BeatTheTraffic-3D system that is used by 30 TV/Cable channels in the USA and Canada. “It’s visual, accurate and can help drivers beat gridlock by avoiding the hotspots as they appear.”
Below is a short excerpt of the Beat the Traffic interview:
KLAS Las Vegas Channel 8’s Dayna Roselli is using Beat the Traffic® for her traffic reports. In a segment of the documentary, Dayna reports on HOV sign and rule changes.
We hear that this stunning piece of journalism will soon be airing in other countries, so stay tuned…
We’ve added great new features for your mobile phone. Check out the brand new version of our WAP site:
Now you can zoom in and out to get a better view of the location you want. Easily change maps views using the navigation buttons.
Cameras images and maps load faster, as image sizes are specifically adapted to your mobile device.
You may access our new WAP website from any web-enabled mobile phone.
Give it a try !
If you already surfed on our mobile site, you will see these changes next time you connect your device to www.BeatTheTraffic.mobi.
Otherwise, try it now! Type www.BeatTheTraffic.mobi on your mobile web browser and you will be redirected to the mobile menu of Beat the Traffic® .
By selecting a city, you will be able to access the map you want, travel times for the most common routes, a listing of relevant incidents, as well as live camera snapshots in selected markets.
Do you want Beat the Traffic® to remember your personal routes?
From your PC, create your personal routes. Then, you will have one click access to instant travel times on your personalized routes. Just login to MyTraffic from your mobile phone or PC.
You may also create alerts, so that Beat the Traffic® will send you a text message to alert you of incidents and delays.
(Raleigh, NC and Santa Clara, CA, June 25, 2009) WRAL.com launches on-line, personalized traffic reports to assist harried commuters of the Raleigh-Durham Triangle area.
