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Thanks for the insight. So how does a company like Inrix get their data? (http://inrix.com/products/traffic/ http://inrix.com/products/traffic/) On their site,
by bob_theslob646 9y ago
Thanks for the insight. So how does a company like Inrix get their data? (http://inrix.com/products/traffic/ http://inrix.com/products/traffic/)
On their site, it says this, which seems like bs.
>Robust, high quality data
INRIX gathers real-time, predictive and historical data from more than 300 million sources, including commercial fleets, GPS, cell towers, mobile devices and cameras.
>Calculating traffic at a 100m granularity, we use advanced algorithms and heuristics to ensure data is intelligently fused to true traffic conditions for 8 million kilometers of roads in more than 47 countries, making every trip safer and more efficient.
- tallytalwar 9y agoOn open traffic data: http://opentraffic.io/ http://opentraffic.io/ https://github.com/opentraffic https://github.com/opentraffic http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2016/12/19/open-traffic-data-to-revolutionize-transport http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2016/12/19/open-tra... https://mapzen.com/blog/open-traffic-release/ https://mapzen.com/blog/open-traffic-release/
- rickycook 9y agomapzen seems to be 1 of the 3 founding members of open traffic :(
- yat1ma 9y agoKinda like it says, they get it from fleets, app makers, etc. For example, you might put an OBD2 device like Automatic in your car to lower your insurance - the company making the OBD2 device might be selling location data of that OBD2 device. Commercial fleets have those as well, and that data is also sold. Same for mobile apps - a lot of them collect user location data, especially anything related to motion/navigation. One example - http://www.coyotesystems.eu/ http://www.coyotesystems.eu/ but there are dozens, if not hundreds, more companies selling this kind of data on their users, and companies like Inrix aggregate it.