Traffic Station Allies With AvantGo
8 December 1999
Traffic Station Allies With AvantGo To Bring Personalized Traffic Alerts to Fortune 1000 Customers
LOS ANGELES--Dec. 8, 1999--to Enterprises Extends Traffic Station's Service Offering
to Nationwide Network of Companies and Organizations
Traffic Station Inc., the leading national provider of personalized traffic and transportation information via the Internet and wireless communications devices, announced it is teaming with AvantGo Inc., the authority in managing mobile information to handheld computers based on the Palm OS and Windows CE platforms.
This new relationship will enable rapid deployment of Traffic Station's real-time traffic information and up-to-the minute traffic alerts across Palm Computing and Windows CE-based handheld devices to hundreds of thousands of mobile users of AvantGo's interactive service, AvantGo.com.
The two companies will launch the Traffic Station AvantGo.com channel offering Traffic Station's services to AvantGo users.
"This significant alliance with AvantGo will impact hundreds of thousands of professionals who will now be able to receive traffic information any where and any time they need it on their handheld communications devices," explained Geoff Halstead, president and chief executive officer of Traffic Station.
"Even more importantly our services can now be fully integrated with corporate intranet and enterprise mobile workforce applications in a tremendously compelling manner."
"As the handheld market continues its explosive growth, the addition of Traffic Station's valuable resource to our award-winning interactive service will enhance our content offerings accessed by hundreds of thousands of individuals throughout our network," said Daniel Pesikoff, manager of content development for AvantGo.
Traffic Station combines comprehensive, real-time traveler information with award-winning Web design, state-of-the-art database and e-commerce technologies to provide the most advanced, consumer-oriented interactive traffic and travel condition reporting system available.
As an added option, the Personal Traffic Advisor(TM) provides customized alerts and on-demand reports to telephones, pagers, wireless telephones, PDAs and other wireless communication devices.
Through a sophisticated automated voice messaging system and support of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), Handheld Device Mark-up Language (HDML) browsers and Windows CE, Traffic Station offers the broadest selection of device support on the market, giving mobile users relevant information as they need it to elude road congestion and other transportation problems.
About Traffic Station
Traffic Station (www.trafficstation.com) launched on Oct. 1, 1997, and is the leading national provider of personalized traffic information and turnkey solutions for content aggregators delivered via the Internet, Telewarning and all mobile communications platforms. Services are currently offered in 18 major metropolitan areas with an additional 12 cities to be deployed by March 2000.
Current clients include Microsoft, Zip2/Alta Vista, Infoseek/Go Network, Vicinity MapBlast!, MyWay.com, Motorola, GTE Wireless and SkyTel. Traffic Station's leadership has been recognized through its selection as Partner in the AZTech and iTravel Federal Model Deployment initiatives in Phoenix and New York.
Traffic Station is also working with Microsoft to deliver its traffic solutions on Windows CE for the AutoPC(TM)s and Handheld PCs and with Phone.com to deliver solutions via its Wireless Applications Protocol (WAP) and Wireless Mark-up Language (WML) to a broad array of wireless phones and handheld devices.
Note to Editors: Traffic Station and Telewarning are trademarks of Traffic Station Inc. AvantGo, AvantGo.com and the AvantGo logo are trademarks of AvantGo Inc.