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Traffic.com Launches TrafficPro TrafficML Service and Sets New Industry Standard for Confidence, Accuracy and Reliability.


Breakthrough Technology Offers the Broadest Coverage with Fully Integrated Historical, Real-Time and Forecasted Drive Times

WAYNE, Pa. -- Traffic.com, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

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TRFC Row Refresh Cycle Time
), the leading provider of personalized traffic information for drivers coast-to-coast, today announced the availability of the TrafficPro[TM] TrafficML Service, the industry's first comprehensive traffic solution that combines historical, and real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided.

Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data.
 from a full complement of data sources to provide broad, accurate and quantified, current and forecasted drive time coverage. This breakthrough technology utilizes data obtained from GPS-based probe, the Traffic.com sensor network A low-speed industrial network that is used to connect sensors to actuators. A sensor network implies limited or no controller functions. Multiple sensor networks may be coupled to form device networks. See industrial control network.  and government sensor data, and proprietary traffic incident and localized event data.

This new service generates drive times across the entire traffic-encoded road network of Traffic.com's digital mapping Digitizing geographic information for a geographic information system (GIS).  partner, NAVTEQ, spanning over 90,000 road miles, calculating in unprecedented granularity, a unique 'Confidence Factor' for each drive time measurement.

TrafficPro TrafficML is an advanced XML XML
 in full Extensible Markup Language.

Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations.
 data feed that leverages the Traffic.com Traffic Information Management System (TIMS TIMS Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry
TIMS The Institute of Management Sciences
TIMS Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner
TIMS Transportation Information Management System
TIMS The International Molinological Society
TIMS Tuberculosis Information Management System
) for data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a  and multi-platform services dissemination. With this release, the TIMS processing capabilities incorporate a breakthrough Hierarchical Travel Time Model (HTTM) and Predictive Engine. HTTM uses proprietary algorithms to calculate travel times from the most diverse and accurate collection of historical, real-time and forecast traffic data sources including:

* GPS-based probe, anonymous cellular probe, and toll-tag data

* Proprietary and government sensor information

* Proprietary incident and event data collected by hundreds of locally-based Traffic.com nationwide operations personnel

* The Traffic.com Predictive Engine

The Traffic.com Predictive Engine applies statistical pattern-matching algorithms to current real-time conditions and historical travel models to estimate future speeds and drive times. Based upon the characteristics of each data sample used to calculate drive times, a 'Confidence Factor' is derived providing a percentage level of accuracy for each travel time value. With this sophisticated model, application developers will benefit from unparalleled control of end-user content in consideration of extended geographic coverage.

Coupled with Traffic.com's proven reliable and scalable content delivery systems, TrafficPro TrafficML will enable a new range of advanced services in the navigation and location based services marketplace. By integrating with the NAVTEQ traffic-encoded road network, Traffic.com provides enhanced capabilities for optimal routing and route-arounds based on past, current and future roadway conditions. Applications can now deliver the most reliable traffic information to drivers with dynamic congestion-related changes to route directions while on the road.

"Our TrafficPro TrafficML solution responds to the increasing need for our customers to expand geographically with increasingly detailed roadway network coverage for their service offerings and fine tune their applications for accuracy and reliability," said Christopher Rothey, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO)

The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president.
, Traffic.com, Inc. "Not all traffic data is the same; the dynamic nature, extreme diversity and sheer volume of traffic information introduced by expanded coverage requires heightened, continuous diligence and expertise, and Traffic.com offers the only solution that serves as the ultimate in coverage with quality assurance."

"Never before, have traffic providers delivered the ability to access a percentage of accuracy associated with drive time calculations," said Brian Smyth Brian Smyth (born 1967) is an Irish painter from Cork.

Smyth studied art at the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork, graduating in 1995. His work has been widely exhibited both in Ireland (Lavitt gallery, Cork and Oisin gallery, Dublin) and abroad (New York, Chicago
, senior vice president of software development, Traffic.com, Inc. "With the Traffic.com Confidence Factors, Web, mobile, in-vehicle, and personal navigation application integrators will have the unique ability to control the level of detail, quality and coverage that allows them to finely-tune their end users' experience."

The TrafficPro TrafficML Service is available today. Requests for consultative sales assistance and evaluations can be sent to info@traffic.com.

About Traffic.com, Inc.

Traffic.com([R]) is the leading provider of personalized traffic information for drivers coast to coast. Through the industry's most comprehensive data collection infrastructure, Traffic.com offers consumers real-time customized traffic reports in 83 U.S. markets. These personalized consumer reports are complete with predictive traffic trends, vehicle speeds, congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load.

congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity.
 levels, travel times, and delay times delivered via Web, wireless device, radio, television, and in-vehicle navigation systems. Traffic.com's ability to distribute traffic information via specialized data feeds and across multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms.  creates unique, powerful branding opportunities for advertisers, enabling them to expand their reach and target consumers with useful, relevant content multiple times per day. Traffic.com's business partners include AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Comcast, Garmin International Inc., Microsoft, NAVTEQ, The Weather Channel([R]), and XM Satellite Radio.

Forward-Looking Statement forward-looking statement

A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections.
 

This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1995. Because these statements apply to future events, they are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including Traffic.com's history of operating losses operating loss

The excess of operating expenses over revenue. As with operating income, operating losses exclude revenues and expenses from operations that are not considered a regular part of the business. Also called deficit. Compare operating income.
, risks associated with its recently expanded business model, the substantial competition it faces, its ability to maintain advertiser relationships and attract additional advertisers, its dependency on government contracts, possible failure of its traffic information management system, and failure to protect its intellectual property or to defend against intellectual property claims of others. These and other risks are described in greater detail in Traffic.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Traffic.com may not actually achieve the goals or plans described in its forward-looking statements, and investors should not place undue reliance on these statements. Traffic.com disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of developments occurring after the date of this press release.

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The Traffic.com logo and Traffic.com are registered trademarks and TrafficPro is a trademark of Traffic.com, Inc. All other product or service names or marks are the property of their respective owners. [c] 2006 Traffic.com, Inc.
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