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KIRKLAND, Washington and BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 23 /PRNewswire/ — - Leading North American provider of traffic data brings innovative technology to Europe via strategic partnerships with ARC Transistance and its leading network of European automobile clubs; commercial vehicle fleets and research organizations for initial launch across 16 European countries INRIX(R) today announced the immediate availability of pan-Europeantraffic information and significant investments in expanding the coverage ofrich flow data on major road networks throughout Europe. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060424/SFM077LOGO-b) INRIX is combining its unique and successful traffic data aggregation andintelligent fusion technologies with key strategic partnerships with leadingEuropean automobile clubs, commercial vehicle fleets, and researchorganizations. Leveraging INRIX’s relationship with ARC Transistance –Europe’s largest motoring assistance network whose automobile clubs are48 million members strong across 43 European countries and cover 80ACIORFIPROCENTE ofthe roadway network in Europe — and INRIX’s partnerships with ITIS Holdings,TNO, and others, INRIX’s strategy takes a pan-European approach to real-time,historical and predictive traffic data. Through its partnership with ARC Transistance, INRIX will now be able todistribute, to its global customers, ARC’s aggregated traffic information –initially available for 16 countries — with significant expansion plannedthroughout 2008 and 2009. Via INRIX and ARC’s joint efforts, Europe’s leadingautomobile clubs will receive significantly enriched and expanded trafficofferings available within individual countries and across the Europeancommunity. One of the first clubs to benefit from this new partnership isANWB, the leading automobile club in the Netherlands with over 3.8 millionmembers.”We are impressed and confident with INRIX’s scalable technology andapproach to aggregating, analyzing and delivering traffic information,” saidCharles Capelleman, director of product development, ARC Transistance. “Inour extensive evaluation of options for expanding the road coverage andimproving the quality of traffic information to our club members, wedetermined INRIX is the ideal traffic data partner.” In addition to aggregating country-specific traffic incident informationvia the automobile club network, INRIX is working with its partners, countryby country to develop expanded traffic flow information for major highways,roads and arterials. INRIX is focused on improving the overall quality oftraffic information in Europe by providing its unique method of mining andaggregating data from a combination of intelligent sources includingGPS-enabled commercial and consumer vehicles, data collected anonymouslyfrom mobile phone devices, traditional road sensor information and cellularGPS data, the result of which is highly accurate road speeds andcomprehensive market coverage. Dominique Bonte, principal analyst, telematics and navigation at ABIResearch commented, “In an increasingly competitive navigation ecosystem thedelivery of high quality traffic content to end users remains a keydifferentiator for navigation providers in Europe. Traffic content providersare required to provide a wide range of traffic information includingincident, flow, historical and predictive data. While distribution ofcountry-specific traffic data over the free and commercial RDS-TMCnetworks is the most widely used means of getting traffic data today inEurope, traffic content aggregators which combine technological excellenceand rich, pan-European coverage will succeed with the next generation of connected navigation devices and telematics services.” Building upon its success as the leading provider of traffic in NorthAmerica, INRIX Traffic services target automobile OEMs, GPS navigation devicemanufacturers, wireless operators, web portals and navigation applicationproviders interested in integrating international road traffic data withtheir consumer and enterprise services.”We have global customers who are demanding the same traffic informationquality and extensive road coverage in Europe that we provide today in NorthAmerica,” said Bryan Mistele, president and CEO of INRIX. “INRIX is in aunique position to deliver comprehensive real-time incident and flow dataacross Europe based upon our technological lead, our blended data aggregationapproach and our unique partnership model with ARC Transistance and others.” Since launching the company in 2004, INRIX has catapulted itself tobecome the leading provider of traffic information in North America with over50 customers, 55,000 miles of real-time flow, over 100,000 miles ofnationwide traffic alerts covering the entire U.S. Interstate Highway System,800,000 miles of historical traffic flow and the only provider of dynamicpredictive traffic. Scaling Through Unique Partnerships ARC Transistance INRIX and ARC Transistance are partnering on the availability of trafficinformation data for their clients across North America and Europe. INRIX isalso collaborating with ARC Transistance to collect, analyze and distributetraffic information across its premiere automobile clubs and organizationsinitially representing 16 European countries. ARC Transistance is Europe’slargest motoring assistance network providing a full range of services to48 million drivers, operating through affiliate organizations in over 40 territories in Europe. ANWB INRIX is working with ANWB, the largest automobile club in theNetherlands with more than 3.8 million club members, to launch the firstdynamic predictive traffic information available in the Netherlands athttp://www.anwb.nl. INRIX and ANWB are applying INRIX’s predictive trafficmodels across 4000 kilometers of roads throughout the entire country. Thecompanies will also collaborate on expanding the coverage and quality ofreal-time traffic information in the Netherlands. ITIS HOLDINGS INRIX and ITIS Holdings, Plc, the UK’s leading provider of trafficincident and travel information, have been partnering on leveraging ITIS’premier U.K. real-time traffic information with INRIX’s predictive modelingfor the UK since 2006. TNO INRIX and TNO, the leading Dutch research organization, are partnering onEuropean predictive traffic models and improving the state-of-the-art intraffic information systems for government and commercial organizationsacross Europe. Commercial Fleets, Technology Providers INRIX is also partnering with leading commercial vehicle fleets andtechnology providers throughout Europe to aggregate rich, comprehensive datafrom GPS-enabled vehicles traveling on major roads within and betweencountries throughout Europe. European traffic from INRIX is available in partnership with ARCTransistance. ARC’s network currently includes real-time traffic incidentinformation for Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark,Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway,Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Real-time flowinformation is now available for the entire United Kingdom via INRIX’spartnership with ITIS Holdings and the entire Netherlands in partnership withANWB, with additional country expansion throughout 2008 and 2009. About INRIX INRIX(R) is the leading provider of accurate real-time, historical andpredictive traffic information in North America and now in Europe, viacooperation with ARC Transistance, the leading network of European automobileclubs. Over 50 customers and industry partners depend on INRIX Trafficincluding ANWB, Clear Channel Radio’s Total Traffic Network, TomTom, deCarta,I-95 Corridor Coalition, ITIS Holdings, MapQuest, Microsoft, Mio, Navigon,TCS, Tele Atlas, TeleNav, Telmap, and TNO. INRIX delivers the highest qualitydata and broadest coverage available for personal navigation, mapping,telematics and other location-based service applications in the car, onlineand on mobile devices. INRIX Traffic Services leverage sophisticated statistical analysistechniques, originally developed by Microsoft Research, to aggregate andenhance traffic-related information from hundreds of public and privatesources, including traditional road sensors and the company’s unique networkof over 800,000 GPS-enabled vehicles and cellular probes. INRIX deliverstraffic information today for over 100 markets in North America and, via ARCTransistance, for 16 European countries. To experience the traffic technologyrevolution behind the next generation of navigation and location-basedservice applications, visit http://www.inrix.com. INRIX is a registered trademark of INRIX, Inc. in the United Statesand/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be thetrademarks of their respective owners. Web site: http://www.inrix.com INRIX

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