@Road Announces Homeland Security Initiative and Collaboration Activities with Congressman Mike Honda to Enhance Security Efforts of Businesses and Public Entities.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2001

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Vice President, Corporate Affairs to Lead Initiative

@Road(SM) (Nasdaq:ARDI), a leading provider of location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile resource management (MRM), today announced the launch of its homeland security initiative. This initiative seeks to meet a growing need for cost-effective technology solutions to enhance the security activities of businesses and public entities with mobile resources.

Since September, @Road has been working with Congressional leaders, including Silicon Valley Congressman Mike Honda and his colleagues, to develop an appropriate response to the attacks of September 11th. These efforts have helped yield provisions in the Aviation Security Act recently signed by President Bush that fund the development and testing of air travel technology solutions. Additionally, @Road worked closely with Congressman Honda in his capacity as a Vice Chair of the Congressional Homeland Security Task Force. By working with leading technology companies such as @Road, the Task Force was able to draft provisions in the Bioterrorism Protection Act (BioPAct) of 2001 that are reflective of the most up-to-date applications, including the deployment of a monitoring system similar to that offered by @Road to help mitigate the risk of a bioterrorist attack.

"Congressman Honda has been at the forefront in bringing together legislators and policymakers with technology leaders in an effort apply advanced technologies to the nation's security efforts," said Krish Panu, @Road chairman and CEO. "Significantly, we are working with the Congressman to define solutions from commercially available technologies that would yield high-quality, timely and cost-effective enhancements to our homeland security. We commend Congressman Honda for his innovation and leadership on this important issue," concluded Mr. Panu.

"In the aftermath of September 11th, our airports and our critical infrastructure face a new landscape of complex security challenges," said Honda. "In order to meet these new challenges, the federal government must continue to work closely with Silicon Valley companies to design and implement a 21st-century security policy that is reflective of the latest innovations in GPS, wireless, Internet and other promising technologies."

@Road Homeland Security Initiative Details

@Road intends to leverage its LocationSmart(TM) technology platform to create security-related monitoring, prevention, response and investigation services. The LocationSmart technology platform combines global positioning system, wireless communications and Internet technologies to deliver an end-to-end mobile resource management solution. Below is a sample of service features @Road can provide:

-- Monitoring and prevention - these services could show periodic current map views of mobile resources, establish geo-fencing to create authorized use areas, set alerts for breaches of defined parameters, and set toggle switches to monitor cargo-hold activity

-- Response - these services could offer location on-demand via text or voice to enhance dispatching, alert escalation paths to help insure timely incident responses, and instant wireless messaging to update response units and provide for workflow management

-- Investigation - these services offer data and message storage and detailed historical activity reporting in downloadable formats to enable auditing and evidence preservation

With its advanced customer solutions group, @Road can develop customer-specific solutions with features such as those described above through the combination of @Road wireless transaction processing, data warehousing, software and hardware platform technologies. Additionally, the @Road technologies can be integrated with customers' existing software and information technology infrastructures.

@Road has designated its corporate affairs group to support the homeland security initiative, with technical support from the company's advanced customer solutions group. @Road recently promoted James (J.D.) Fay to the position of vice president, corporate affairs, adding the management of corporate affairs and development of security and government business opportunities to his existing roles of general counsel and secretary.

"We expect policymakers to continue to pass legislation that would encourage businesses and public entities to deploy security enhancement services such as those developed by @Road," said Mr. Fay. "We look forward to the opportunity to be a productive part of the solution to enhance the security of our communities and the country."

Target Users

The @Road homeland security initiative is intended to meet the requirements of businesses and public entities managing mobile resources that have a need to mitigate the risks associated with unauthorized use of their assets. Examples include:

-- Air travel carriers, airport tenants and suppliers to the air transportation network

-- Entities managing biological and other hazardous materials

-- Emergency services such as police, fire and special response

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-- Entities with secure or critical installations or transportation activities, such as laboratories, manufacturing facilities and transportation hubs 

-- Public works and business organizations responding to emergency conditions, such as transportation and utility services

For More Information

Prospective customers may call 510/870-1925 to inquire about @Road homeland security development services.

About @Road

Based in Fremont, CA, @Road is a publicly traded company that provides location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile resource management. Its patented LocationSmart technology platform combines wireless, positioning and XML technologies with the Internet into a fully integrated network that supports the delivery of location-enhanced wireless Internet services for businesses and mobile professionals. For more information, please visit the company Web site at www.atroad.com.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the ability of @Road to successfully develop, market and sell the services described in this press release, actions of legislatures, administrations and policymakers, expectations about future law, dependence of @Road on mobile data systems technology, wireless networks, network infrastructure and positioning systems owned and controlled by others, and general economic and political conditions. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the @Road Report on Form 10-K dated March 30, 2001 and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. @Road undertakes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained in this press release.

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