New INRIX Insights™ Platform Transforms Smart Cities Planning, Retail Analytics and Advertising Measurement

- -- INRIX Enables Businesses and Governments to Work Smarter with New Data from Connected Cars  KIRKLAND, Washington, May 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- INRIX®, Inc., the leading global provider of transportation intelligence and connected car services worldwide, is introducing the first analytics platform to tap big data from the connected car for urban planning, retail site selection and advertising measurement. Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150504/213652Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150504/213653Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150324/194153LOGO Through unique analysis into the movement of people, vehicles and commerce in cities worldwide, INRIX Insights™ is the first platform to provide business and government with the ability to gain insight from the connected car for use in planning new roads and transit systems, locating a business or measuring the results of a marketing campaign.  The platform leverages real-time GPS data from a growing network of more than 250 million vehicles and devices. "INRIX Insights exemplifies how the Internet of Things is transforming every aspect of business, government and society," said Bryan Mistele, president and chief executive officer, INRIX.  "An impact that extends beyond the products and services consumers use every day to how business and government design, build and ultimately measure the impact of those same products and services." Today INRIX introduced the first two services on its INRIX Insights platform:  INRIX Insights™ Trips and INRIX Insights™ Volume.  INRIX Insights Trips is a data-as-a-service (DaaS) application for understanding population movement across a metropolitan area, between two locations and at various points along the way.  INRIX Insights Volume is the first global population movement service that provides insight into how many vehicles typically pass a location by time of day, day of week at a location as well as actual vehicle counts on a specific day, time and side of the road.  Together, these services represent a breakthrough in Origin-Destination and vehicle count analysis that reduces cost and complexity while increasing the accuracy of data and reliability of information. Available to customers in the U.S. and Europe, these services revolutionize how cities, businesses and advertisers can better anticipate the movement of people and measure it across a region, around a business or past a billboard. Government:  A Foundation for Building Smarter Cities As governments work to address population growth in our cities, INRIX Insights Trips and INRIX Insights Volume provide these agencies with a more scalable, cost-effective and immediate way to predict, plan and prioritize investment in roads and transit across their entire transportation network infrastructure.  Key benefits of the services include: Public sector agencies interested in learning more can register and participate in a Webinar at 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, May 7, 2015 where INRIX Vice President Rick Schuman and his public sector team will outline use cases, technical specifications and benefits in greater detail. Retailers: Improving Site Selection and Competitive Intelligence In addition to being foundational to smart cities, INRIX Insights Volume and INRIX Insights Trips services help retailers work smarter.  Key feature benefits to retailers include: "INRIX Insight Volume and Trips really helped us better understand which of three candidate sites would have the highest return on our investment, before we laid out our money," said Pat Augustine, Planet Fitness Franchisee.  "No longer do retailers need to guess about the volume and origins of their prospective customers to a specific retail location." Added INRIX retail industry partner eSite, "Our company serves some of the fastest growing Quick Service Restaurants in the industry.  Five Guys Is a great example.  We can't afford to waste their time or run the risk of recommending poor real estate investment decisions," said Tom Blazer, CEO, eSite Analytics, Inc. "With the new data from INRIX Insights powering our Trip2Trade trade area creator, we can both eliminate poor candidate sites from consideration and help take the guesswork out of our site selection recommendations.  INRIX Insights ensures better understanding of the impact of traffic volume as an analytic data point along with demographics of prospective customers." Advertisers: From Proof of Posting to Proof of PerformanceThe INRIX Insights platform benefits to businesses also extend to advertisers.  INRIX Insights Volume takes the guesswork out of measuring the impact of the $6.9 billion billboard advertising industry.  For the first time, advertisers can now understand how many people were exposed to an ad and for how long in traffic based on time of day, day of week.  With this insight, new advertisers, who demand third party measurability, can obtain the post campaign analysis they have come to expect from other advertising media. "The Traffic Audit Bureau's mandate is to lead measurement for the US out of home advertising industry," said Jeff Casper, SVP, Director of Operations & Measurement, Traffic Audit Bureau for Media Measurement Inc. "We look forward to extending our relationship with INRIX, as we together bring out next generation planning and measurement insight that brings the highest level of transparency and accountability possible to the industry." About INRIX INRIX is one of the fastest growing big data technology companies in the world. The company leverages big data analytics to reduce the individual, economic and environmental toll of traffic congestion. Through cutting-edge data intelligence and predictive traffic technologies, INRIX helps leading automakers, fleets, governments and news organizations make it easier for drivers to navigate their world. Our vision is simple – to solve traffic, empower drivers, inform planning and enhance commerce.  Whether through an in-car or smartphone navigation application, a local newscast or our INRIX Traffic app, our up-to-the-minute traffic information and other driver services help millions of drivers save time, fuel and frustration. INRIX delivers traffic and driving-related insight, as well as sophisticated analytical tools and services across six industries covering nearly five million miles (7.9 million km) of road in 41 countries. For more information visit us at INRIX.com or download our INRIX XD Traffic App for iOS and Android.