Costa Rica Gets PND with RDS-TMC Traffic

31 May 2010

Costa Rican LBS provider NAVSAT has launched a PND called NAVIGATOR which receives real-time traffic information through RDS-TMC.

This solution, the first of this kind Latin America, was built in partnership with UK-based ITIS Holdings, a worldwide supplier of traffic and travel information. NAVSAT has implemented their TrafficScience software using floating vehicle data combined with incident data from NAVSAT's local traffic monitoring center.

The Costa Rican routable map data, POI database and TISA certified TMC table have also been developed by NAVSAT's GIS department.

According to the company, NAVSAT map data is used by over 100,000 navigation systems in the consumer and car rental market. NAVSAT was founded in December 2006 and has a staff of 30 people.