Navteq to release new historic road speed database

19 May 2008

NAVTEQ published its updated historic database Traffic Patterns North America v3.0 including typical traffic speeds on nearly one million miles of primary and secondary roads across the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada.

According to Vice President Howard Hayes NAVTEQ Traffic Patterns v.3.0 demonstrates up to 33% improvement in travel time accuracy when compared with typical speeds and posted speed limits on freeways and surface roadways.

The database contains of data from historical observations aggregated, verified and matched to the traffic location codes in the NAVTEQ Map database.