Nice to see being that being subsidiary to TomTom is proving fruitful for TeleAtlas. In a press release early this morning, TeleAtlas announced that they will be using TomTom’s huge speed profiles database to provide better routing and estimated arrival times for customers.
Much like NAVTEQ’s Traffic Patterns, the service will be available later this year, providing a better navigation experience by drawing on over one trillion speed measurements submitted by TomTom users over the past 2 years (in 25 different countries). Says the release,
Today this speed profile database already provides highly accurate information about actual average speeds for every five minutes of the day on any day of the week on all of the roads in 23 European countries and 90 percent of the roads in the United States. To achieve this kind of accuracy, those 18 million kilometers of roads had to be driven and measured on average more than 2,000 times at different times of the day and during different days of the week.
By using a system of historical average speeds, TeleAtlas will now be available to route users taking into account such things as traffic lights, speed bumps and even pedestrian traffic generated by school lunch breaks!
via teleatlas
