INRIX has announced a new addition to the INRIX Trips family of products: INRIX Trip Paths. INRIX now has two products that deliver detailed connected vehicle data; INRIX Trip Reports and INRIX Trip Paths. Moonshadow Mobile’s DB4IoT uses the connected vehicle data from INRIX to power DB4IoT, the analytics platform for traffic engineers. In 2018 Moonshadow released DB4IoT with INRIX Trip Reports. Today Moonshadow is releasing DB4IoT with INRIX Trip Paths.

Moonshadow Mobile works closely with DKS Associates in Portland, OR to create the exact features that traffic engineers need and DKS uses DB4IoT in its traffic engineering practice. In March INRIX provided DKS and Moonshadow with Trip Reports data and Trip Paths data for the Regional O/D Study for RTC, the SW Washington Regional Transportation Council in Clark County, WA. Read the DKS blog post.

DB4IoT with INRIX Trip Paths - I5 & I205 SB

Northbound Traffic distribution between I5 and I205 show in DB4IoT with INRIX Trips

​With the new data in hand Moonshadow started development of DB4IoT with INRIX Trip Paths. Instead of working with the point data that is coming from connected vehicles INRIX Trip Paths provides the roads to which the points are mapped. This allowed Moonshadow to create new functionality in DB4IoT for select link analysis that is much easier to use. Just simply click on a road line segment to see where all traffic on that segment is coming from or going to. Moonshadow also added pass-through gate comparison that allows traffic engineers to quickly see how traffic is distributed among alternative routes.

Since INRIX provided Moonshadow with the Trip Reports and Trip Paths data for a full year for the same area Moonshadow was in a unique position to compare the two products before the new INRIX Trip Paths was even announced.

INRIX Trip Paths is a major improvement by INRIX for drawing conclusions from the trips reports data. Read our blog post. It provides a two-times improvement on the INRIX Trip Reports data for generating O/D matrices and performing select link analysis. The trips data is further anonymized in INRIX Trip Paths and it is easier to make selections. The only drawback is that you do not have direct access to the original waypoints but that drawback can be overcome by combining the two data sets for use cases such as the Regional O/D Study for RTC that need this.

INRIX Trip Paths is a major improvement by INRIX for drawing conclusions from trip data. INRIX Trip Paths data provides a two-times improvement on the INRIX Trip Reports data for generating O/D matrices and performing select link analysis. The trips data is further anonymized in INRIX Trip Paths and it is easier to make selections. The only drawback is that you do not have direct access to the original waypoints but that limitation can be overcome by combining the two data sets for use cases such as the Regional O/D Study for RTC that need this.

Read our DB4IoT blog post for more information.

Pre-launch trial INRIX blog post.