Flow Labs and TomTom Announce Major Data Partnership

Transport software technology, Artificial Intelligence and data integration company Flow Labs has announced a new partnership with sat nav, traffic data and mapping company TomTom. The companies say the collaboration marks a “significant leap forward in the quality, accuracy, and security of transportation data available to agencies across the United States to enhance transportation safety, […]

Flow Labs and TomTom announce major data partnership to bring agencies unprecedented traffic data accuracy 

Flow Labs, a transportation software technology leader specialising in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and transportation data integration, announced a new partnership with TomTom, the location technology specialist with over 30 years of leadership in global mapping, navigation and traffic data. The collaboration marks a significant leap forward in the quality, accuracy, and security of transportation data […]

TomTom and StreetLight partner to deliver transportation data and insights worldwide

Location technology company TomTom has partnered with Jacobs subsidiary StreetLight Data, which is a Big Data company providing insights into how people, goods, and services move. This partnership includes incorporating TomTom’s global data into StreetLight’s growing line of cloud-based products that support transport professionals with the most critical analytics, for any road and any mode. […]

Companies come together to compete with Apple and Google maps

A group of leading tech companies have come together to deliver an open map dataset aimed at providing app developers with free geographical data, and take on Google and Apple Maps. Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom have jointly launched the Overture Maps Foundation, collaborating “to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map products, today announced […]

Historic traffic demand now integrated with automated model generation solution PTV Model2Go

Mobility software and modelling company PTV Group has launched what it calls a more sophisticated version of PTV Model2Go. PTV Model2Go Demand now combines automated model generation technology with comprehensive traffic demand data based on TomTom’s analysis of trips, preferred routes and most driven streets throughout time. The new cloud-based solution provides users such as […]

VicOne and TomTom partner on in-car data privacy

Automotive cybersecurity solutions companyVicOne is partnering with geolocation technology firm TomTom on protecting data privacy in-vehicle through purpose-built smart cockpit cybersecurity software. They say that, focused on delivering greatly enhanced and more secure services to car users to extend their cabin experience, automotive ecosystem players are now planning to provide in-vehicle infotainment apps, for conference […]

Sat Nav software to be updated so that they avoid residential roads

Residential areas will not be used by Sat nav’s in the future, as software will be updated so that quiet, residential areas will not be used – and drivers will instead by directed to main roads. The goal is to end ‘rat running’ in major towns and cities – and avoid congestion in streets that […]

Sat Navs could have algorithms changed to end use of rat runs

It’s reported Sat Nav companies are looking to change the way they calculate routes to stop minor roads being used to avoid congested main routes. Sat-nav provider TomTom says it is set to change how the algorithm, with other providers such as Google and Waze doing so to, in order to direct drivers away from […]

World’s slowest city to drive in is London, according to new research

Travelling across London took an average of 36 minutes and 20 seconds to travel 6.2 miles (10 km) in the centre of the capital in 2022, new TomTom research has found. That was almost two minutes slower than 2021 and represents the longest time for a journey of that distance out of 389 cities in […]

PTV and TomTom team up on navigation app

Mapping and traffic information company TomTom has announced it will power transport modelling firm PTV’s Truck Navigator G2, the next generation of the group’s professional truck navigation app. PTV Group will be using TomTom’s recently launched Navigation SDK (Mobile Software Development Kit) to power up-to-date maps, custom truck routing and more in their app, now […]