"Our partnership with AirSage merges Metro Traffic's market-leading
experience with cutting-edge cellular technology to provide local traffic
reports that are simply more accurate than what is currently available
anywhere," said
As the leading provider of traffic information, Metro Traffic serves 129 markets with incident monitoring services covering more than 350,000 miles of roadway. AirSage, the only U.S. supplier of traffic data from cell phone signaling systems, compiles and analyzes the anonymous real-time experiences of tens of millions of drivers to report up-to-the-minute traffic flows and speeds. The combined offering, an industry milestone, will vastly expand coverage of secondary roadways and provide best-choice alternatives to minimize the hassles of daily commuting.
AirSage CEO
"Coupling AirSage's breakthrough technology with our 1000+ experienced
traffic experts nationwide lifts traffic reporting accuracy to a new level,"
said
AirSage's proprietary software supplies speed, travel time and traffic-flow information for over 150,000 miles of roadway, including primary and alternate travel routes. This is a notable improvement over systems based on fixed-traffic data sensors that monitor real-time traffic for only about 7,000 miles of metropolitan interstates. By relying on the extensive presence of mobile communications technology, AirSage is also able to provide greater visibility into how the nations network of highways and arterials is performing and being used at different times of the day, month, and year.
About Westwood One
Westwood One (NYSE: WON) is a platform-agnostic content company providing over 150 news, sports, music, talk, entertainment programs, features and live events to numerous media partners. Through its subsidiaries, Metro Networks/Shadow Broadcast Services, Westwood One provides local content to the radio and TV industries and to the Web. This content includes news, sports, weather, traffic, video news services and other information. SmartRoute Systems manages traffic information centers for state and local departments of transportation, and markets traffic and travel content to wireless, Internet, in-vehicle navigation systems and voice portal customers. Westwood One serves more than 5,000 radio stations. For more information please visit http://www.westwoodone.com.
About AirSage, Inc.
AirSage is the leading provider of reliable and accurate real-time traffic
information providing partners and customers with the highest quality speed,
travel time and traffic flow information on more than 150,000 miles of the
nation's highways, freeways, primary roadways and arterial roads. The
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