Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
Fuel Prices Service incorporates POI data about gas stations.
Press Release Summary:
Featuring dynamic fuel price data for 100,000 stations, Inrix Dynamic Fuel Prices service also includes POI data like location, phone, and brand of station for 140,000 gas stations. Service integrates with navigation and local search solutions to provide consumers and businesses with price data by station for gasoline and diesel. Updated on an hourly basis, service is suited for navigation device OEMs, wireless application providers, fleet management services, and portals.
Original Press Release:
Inrix Announces Dynamic Fuel Prices Service
Ideal Service for Navigation Device OEMs, Wireless Application Providers, Fleet Management Services and Portals
KIRKLAND, Wash., Oct. 25 // -- Inrix, the leader in traffic data services, today announced the availability of Inrix Dynamic Fuel Prices, a new offering that features enhanced point of interest (POI) data for 140,000 gas stations and dynamic fuel price data for 100,000 stations in the U.S. Inrix is providing the service exclusively in partnership with Oil Price Information Service (OPIS), the world's most comprehensive source for petroleum pricing and news information.
The new Inrix Dynamic Fuel Prices service easily integrates with navigation and local search solutions to provide consumers and businesses with fuel price data by station for gasoline and diesel. The service, which is updated on an hourly basis, also includes enhanced POI data about gas stations such as the location, phone and brand of the station.
"Our customers asked us to provide a single source for dynamic traffic and fuel price information," said Kush Parikh, Vice President of Business Development at Inrix. "The potential for fuel price savings and routing efficiencies across both commercial and consumer markets is significant."
The American Trucking Association estimates that trucking industry fuel costs will surpass $100 billion in 2006 -- a nearly 50% increase in the last three years. In the consumer market, the average 2-driver household now spends $4,132 on gas annually compared to $2620 last year.
Inrix Dynamic Fuel Prices allows navigation and local search solution providers to display or route to gas stations of a specific brand or product offering, such as stations that carry only diesel fuel, or to find the most affordable gas of a specific grade in any given area. Fleet management service providers can enable their customers to schedule the most efficient fuel station stops along a specific long haul route or determine the most efficient route.
Inrix will showcase its Dynamic Fuel Prices service at the American Trucking Association (ATA) annual conference in Dallas, Texas on October 28-30 in Tele Atlas booth # 214. Additional information on Inrix's traffic and dynamic data services is available at www.inrix.com.
About Inrix
Inrix is the leading provider of accurate real-time and predictive traffic information nationwide, providing industry partners and customers with the highest quality data and broadest coverage available for personal navigation, mapping, and other location-based service applications in the car, online and on mobile devices.
Inrix Traffic Services leverage sophisticated statistical analysis techniques, originally developed by Microsoft Research, to aggregate and enhance traffic-related information from hundreds of public and private sources, going well beyond the limitations of static road sensor networks, historical-based models and cellular data aggregators, to offer customers the most sophisticated understanding of the unique system-wide traffic patterns in each metropolitan area. Additionally, Inrix offers real-time incident data for 130 markets through its partnership with Clear Channel Total Traffic Network. To experience the traffic technology revolution behind the next generation of navigation and location-based service applications, visit www.inrix.com.
Source: Inrix
Web site: www.inrix.com/
