INRIX Traffic Quality Assurance Program Launched For Transportation Agencies
Industry’s first Quality Assurance Program replicates quality metrics, penalty formulas and validation methodology of the I-95 Corridor Coalition Vehicle Probe Project to provide ‘Peace of Mind’ to any real-time data customer
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md., May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – ITS America Annual Meeting — INRIX today introduced the industry’s first Real-Time Traffic Data Quality Assurance Program at the 2012 ITS America Annual Meeting. The program will embed data validation in INRIX’s data license contracts, with experienced independent validators using proven and well documented methods established and used by the I-95 Corridor Coalition over the past four years. The number of validation tests included at no additional cost will scale depending upon the size of the roadway network and the length of the contract – the larger the network, the longer the contract, the higher frequency of validation tests. The program, in partnership with Bluetooth traffic monitoring firm Traffax, applies to limited access networks in all countries and regions in which INRIX provides real-time traffic data.
“Data accuracy is critical to our government customers,” said Rick Schuman, Vice President and General Manager of Public Sector, INRIX. “At the same time, it is difficult and costly to establish an independent testing regime – leaving many customers to assess quality anecdotally, a priori, or not at all. We want our customers to be assured in a scientific way that our data meets their quality needs – throughout the life of a contract. With the I-95 Corridor Coalition, we were the first in the industry to accept contract terms linking payment directly to data quality. Today, we are expanding this same offer to all government agencies worldwide where we operate.”
In the I-95 Corridor Coalition’s Vehicle Probe Project (VPP), INRIX has been and continues to be subjected to the most extensive and longest continuously running independent quality validation of private sector traffic data in the world. Since July 2008, the University of Maryland has continued to monitor freeway data quality using portable Bluetooth readers provided by Traffax and has set the standard for quality control for outsourced traffic data. The validation has analyzed numerous facilities 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, under a wide variety of operating conditions including light to severe congestion, holidays, snow storms, overnight work zones, all seasons, daytime and nighttime, weekdays and weekends. To date, data has been collected and published on a nearly monthly basis at 35 test sites
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