13 April 2010

ITIS Is Looking For Beta Testers
To Help Evaluate Its Mobile Traffic Client

The new version of ITIS's UK traffic client application for S60v5 and S50v3 mobile phones is close to shipping and the team is looking for beta testers to help make sure that the product is ready for consumers.

Their last release was around 18 months ago, and featured here on Symbian freak, but since then they’ve been busy working on a new client using openstreetmaps instead of their regular mapping solution.

Traffic congestion is a growing problem in major urban areas and there is a large and growing necessity in the provision of services and information for people on the move, from weather reports at your destination to wireless hotspots en route. ITIS provides high quality real time, historic and predictive traffic information for all motorways and major trunk roads.

Its pioneering Floating Vehicle Data technology is used to rapidly deliver traffic information on a nationwide scale and at significantly reduced cost compared to traditional fixed-sensor based systems.

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People expect to be able to access the latest traffic and travel in formation before and during their journey, on demand and at their own convenience. Rroad users needs a high-quality traffic information in order to plan and adjust their routes and if you are looking for free and cost effective service look no more, this handy ITIS’ application will meets all your needs.

ITIS Mobile Traffic Client is a personal solution for increasing traffic jams that is compatible with most of the S60 3rd edition devices with the built in GPS such as Nokia N96, Nokia N95 and Nokia E66 and now also supports 5th edition devices inclusing Nokia 5800 and N97. In order to get it to work, you need you need to install client application and a "map-pack".

The client sends the ITIS traffic server its GPS coordinates, and in return the server sends back traffic information for the surrounding area. GPS Data is added to the existing fleet data of around 80'000 unique vehicles per day, which is then fused with journalistic data provided by the "trafficlink" arm of ITIS.