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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

More cities covered!

Check Beat the Traffic® if you plan a trip to Montreal, Houston, Ottawa, Milwaukee, Portland (Maine)… And still more cities to come!

As you are getting ready for holiday travel we wanted to share with you a brand new feature that may help you make smart decisions on when to travel and what route to take.

Introducing MyTraffic on your mobile device

Now there is one more reason to create a MyTraffic profile on Beat the Traffic.com: http://www.beatthetraffic.com/login.aspx

As you set up your familiar routes, including regional routes that you might take on your getaway or Holiday trip, you may now easily access those on your mobile device.

Just type the following address on your mobile web browser:

http://www.BeatTheTraffic.mobi 

and you will be redirected to the mobile menu below to the right. By selecting login to MyTraffic you will be prompted to enter your user name (email address you chose when entering your MyTraffic profile) and password.

You will then see all your routes listed on your mobile device screen together with the corresponding drive time as well as any potential delay.

If there is a specific incident (or incidents) along a route causing a delay by clicking on the route such incidents will be displayed.

Here is my own MyTraffic screen on my blackberry device, where I have at my fingertips the important routes for my own travels including my commute routes as well as some routes I plan on traveling this weekend. One of them is highlighted in red with 12 minutes of delay so I am better informed and can alleviate stress and plan on taking the Hamilton to Mission alternative that is looking significantly better.

Another thing I like to do is to save this MyTraffic personalized content as a bookmark on my mobile device, and turn on a useful feature which consists of auto-refreshing the page at regular intervals so it always displays fresh content when I need to. 

BeatTheTraffic.mobi also provides convenient, up-to-the minute maps of traffic conditions for your region at your fingertips. Here is for instance a map of the Atlanta area. It comes complete with colored roadways illustrating the speed of traffic (green for 45 mph average or faster, yellow for 25 to 45 mph, and red for 25 or less mph), traffic incidents as represented with yellow, orange and red diamonds depending upon the severity, and, in most areas, icons representing real-time traffic camera snapshots. These cameras may be selected by clicking or you may access a full menu list of cameras available for your region.

We would love to have your feedback on these new features, and would appreciate it greatly if you would write to us at

http://www.beatthetraffic.com/feedback.aspx

Everyone at Beat the Traffic(R) wishes you a happy Holiday!