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Navteq Traffic.com Touts Tips
Jan 05, 2010 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) --
Navteq, a provider of digital map, traffic and location data for in-vehicle, portable, wireless and enterprise solutions, stated that it provides new ways to lower your stress level, make more time for your family, and even reduce your personal carbon footprint.
Navteq Traffic.com said it is helping drivers with four traffic-related resolutions for 2010.
- The more time you spend in traffic, the less time you have for the most important people in your life. Let Navteq Traffic.com can help you cut your commute. Sign up for MyTraffic at traffic.com and save your favorite routes. Personalized traffic updates are then available from any web-enabled device and on most major carrier portals. Just enter http://mobi.traffic.com/ into your mobile web browser, or through your carrier portals within categories such as: "Maps/Traffic," "Weather" and "Travel."
- Perhaps the only driving experience more frustrating than being stuck in traffic is getting lost. Make sure that you are equipped to find your way, no matter where you are going. In addition to Navteq Traffic.com, use a GPS navigation in your vehicle, and always make sure the maps are up to date. If you haven't updated your navigation maps in the past year, visit Navteq.com to purchase a new map update.
- Do you arrive at work or come home stressed out from fighting through traffic? Give yourself a break. Find the faster moving roads by texting your CITY CODE (NY, CHIC, PHL, LA, etc.) to TRAFC (87232) to get instant traffic updates for the worst city area delays. Navteq Traffic.com city codes can be found at http://bhelp.traffic.com/city-codes-used-for-sms.
- The less time you spend stuck in traffic, the more you reduce your carbon footprint. A recent Navteq study showed that cars equipped with GPS navigation systems with real-time traffic info can reduce the time of their average trip by 18 percent and reduce their car's carbon emissions by 21 percent. Don't have a traffic-enabled system? Check http://mobi.traffic.com/ for real time traffic updates.
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