MELBOURNE, Australia — (BUSINESS WIRE) — October 9, 2016 — TomTom ( TOM2) today announced that TomTom City has now extended to 100 cities in only 6 months since launching. The traffic portal is a showcase for the extensive range of traffic information available on a city by city basis and provides a platform to connect traffic authorities, businesses and citizens to jointly manage sustainable and efficient mobility.
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TomTom City reaches 100 cities (Photo: Business Wire)
TomTom City, which can be found at http://city.tomtom.com, is also now available in 6 different languages and covers 6 continents. The addition of a further 50 cities means that, in total, over 175 million people can now benefit from the service to help them plan their journeys better.
Ralf-Peter Schäfer, Head of Traffic at TomTom, said: “TomTom City has proved popular so it’s great to extend TomTom City by another 50 cities. Alongside the launch of our Traffic Centre, TomTom is really showing the extensive capabilities it has to help optimize the road network for everyone and we’ll continue to add functionality to the site. This is a further step in our mission to help reduce delays for all drivers and paving the way to smarter cities by using data from over 450 million GPS devices* globally.”
TomTom City is accessible from any internet enabled computer, tablet or smartphone and provides freely accessible content showing live traffic status and incidents and other driver-based information in cities.
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CITIES ADDED TO TOMTOM CITY
| Europe: | Antwerp (BE), Liege (BE), Le Havre (FR), Lille (FR), Lyon (FR), Marseille (FR), Toulouse (FR), Bremen (DE), Cologne (DE), Dortmund (DE), Duisburg (DE), Düsseldorf (DE), Essen (DE), Hannover/ Niedersachsen (DE), Ingolstadt(DE), Karlsruhe (DE), Kassel (DE), Kiel (DE), Leipzig (DE), Munich (DE), Saarbrucken (DE), Stuttgart (DE), Wolfsburg (DE), Dublin (IE), Bari (IT), Verona (IT), Eindhoven (NL), Utrecht (NL), Barcelona (ES), Valencia (ES), Birmingham (UK), Bristol (UK), Edinburgh (UK) | |||
| APAC | Adelaide (AU)Brisbane (AU), Canberra (AU), Perth (AU), Kuala Lumpur (MY), Christchurch (NZ), Jakarta (ID) | |||
| Americas: | Porto Alegre (BR), Santiago (CL), Mexico City (MX), Columbus (US), Cleveland (US), Denver (US), Detroit (US), Los Angeles (US), Sacramento (US), San Diego (US) | |||
*Devices include dedicated Portable Navigation Devices, connected smartphone applications, in-dash navigation and fleet management systems.
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About TomTom
At TomTom (TOM2) our mission is to make technology so easy to use, that everyone can benefit from it.
We created easy to use navigation devices, helping millions of people to get where they want to be. Today, we continue to simplify the complex, making technology more accessible for everyone.
We have four customer facing business units: Consumer, Telematics, Automotive and Licensing.
We make easy to use navigation devices, sport watches and action cameras for consumers. We enable businesses with vehicles to more easily manage and improve fleet efficiency whilst increasing overall business performance with our Telematics solutions. We also offer a world leading real-time map platform that is powering innovative location based services and helping to make automated driving a reality for the automotive industry.
Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have over 4,600 employees and sell our products worldwide.
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