INRIX, a major worldwide provider of traffic details and car owner services, presents a new app for the iPhone and iPad that allows motorists take control of their travel and avoid traffic. With motorists spending up to 60 time last season idling on This country's Toughest Roads1, INRIX Visitors allows cut the cost of traffic jams with the following time-saving features:
Your Quickest Tracks to Home & Work: Individuals can quickly decide which path is the best choice to get around present-day traffic. Only INRIX examines the effect injuries, sports, live reveals and other unique activities in your area have on visitors provide the quickest routes with the least wait.
Recommended Leaving & Travel Times: The INRIX Visitors Prediction Slider reveals motorists the best options for preventing annoying waiting now and in the future.
Share INRIX Appearance Times: Easily send your INRIX Appearance Time immediately to any contact with just a few faucets.
Personalized Visitors Alerts: Individuals can exclusively beat their app to only aware them to injuries and other accidents producing waiting along their path.
"We're putting 100 million traffic reporters into the palm of you," said Kevin Foreman, INRIX Vice Chief executive of Customer Programs. "Our newest launch allows motorists never be overdue again."
INRIX Visitors is operated by the same company used by major international car manufacturers like Mercedes, Honda and Chevy. INRIX protects more roads with greater precision than any other traffic service providing some time to fuel-saving understanding to motorists for more than thousands of kilometers of roads, interstates, city roads and intensely visited regional roads in the U.S. and thousands of kilometers across European countries. INRIX exclusively includes ideas from the biggest group of more than 100 million daily motorists with thousands of other resources to provide understanding precise within 2 mph of actual traffic connections under all driving conditions 24 time a day, 7 days a week.
INRIX at Work
Besides INRIX Visitors, the organization's large store of traffic details and innovative statistics engine are reducing new light on traffic traffic jam, its has an effect on and how to help fix them. Today's launch of the INRIX Visitors Scorecard confirming on the effect of traffic traffic jam globally found motorists in This country's 10 Toughest Visitors Places sit lazy on average 44 time a season in traffic jams. The Top 10 Toughest Visitors Places for 2011 and time thrown away yearly by motorists in these cities yearly are:
Honolulu (58 hours)
Los Angeles (56 hours)
San Francisco (48 hours)
New York (57 hours)
Bridgeport, CT (42 hours)
Washington, D.C. (45 hours)
Seattle (33 hours)
Austin (30 hours)
Boston (35 hours)
Chicago (36 hours)
Tuesday at 8:00 AM was the busiest morning commute hour, and Friday at 5:30 PM was the worst evening rush hour. Each weekday morning, overall national congestion peaks between 7:45 to 8:00 AM. Overall national evening congestion peaks between 5:30 and 5:45 PM.
Consumers interested in learning more about the impact of traffic congestion on their own commute can view information unique to their city including how many hours they waste idle every year, the worst roads, how traffic is trending and other insights by downloading the mobile app and tapping the bar graph icon at the bottom of their home screen.
The new INRIX Traffic App is available today as a free, ad-free download for iPhone; iPad and iPod Touch from the Apple App Store. To learn more about the INRIX Traffic, visit www.inrixtraffic.com.