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Press Releases - Tele Atlas® partners with ProMiles® to offer Fuel
Price Data
TELE ATLAS® AND PROMILES TEAM TO DELIVER FUEL
PRICE DATA
Travelers set to benefit from the availability of dynamic fuel
price content delivered from Tele Atlas for location-based,
wireless and Internet services
ATLANTA, March 23, 2004- Tele Atlas and ProMiles Software
Development Corporation (PSDC), announced today that the two
companies have teamed to offer the first, up-to-date North
American fuel price data for location-based services, wireless
applications and Internet services. Through this partnership,
ProMiles will provide Tele Atlas® on a daily basis gas prices at
the pump for four grades of fuel - Regular, Plus, Premium and
Diesel - for more than 72,000 fuel stations in North America. The
addition of this dynamic fuel information is part of Tele Atlas'
commitment to bring relevant, location content to its partners and
customers to help drive adoption of location-based services and
applications by end users.
Each day actual at-the-pump prices will be sent to Tele Atlas for
integration into the Tele Atlas dynamic servers so top partners
and customers will be able to utilize this data in their LBS
applications to create more compelling applications that are
integrated with Tele Atlas maps. Consumer services and
applications can then leverage this data to provide end users fuel
prices customized to their preferred brand and to direct them to
the most affordable price near their location whether at home or
on the road. More sophisticated services will be able to optimize
stops on longer trips to lower overall fuel costs.
Location-based services, as well as navigation applications and
telematics services, are well poised to take advantage of this
dynamic traveler information, which could drive usage of and
subscriptions to their services.
"With more than 125,000 gasoline stations in the United States and
fuel prices expected to top $3 a gallon in some areas this summer,
consumers will be searching for solutions to help them identify
the most cost-effective locations to purchase gasoline to keep
their travel and commuting expenses as low as possible," said
Joseph J. Berry, vice president of GIS and LBS for Tele Atlas in
North America. "Our agreement with ProMiles will make it easy and
efficient for services used by both wired and wireless subscribers
to perform proximity searches for fuel prices as well as optimize
fuel savings for long-distance travel."
"Managing the cost of fuel is as important to individual consumers
as it is large and small businesses," stated Tony Stroncheck,
president of ProMiles Software Development Corporation (PSDC).
"By teaming with Tele Atlas, businesses and consumers will benefit
from the increased availability of fuel price information."
About Tele Atlas
Tele Atlas delivers the freshest, richest, and most accurate
digital map data and dynamic content to power the world’s most
essential geographic solutions. Tele Atlas collaborates with a
fast-growing base of leaders in the personal navigation,
Internet, and wireless markets to ensure consumers have the map
content they need to quickly and easily find places, products
and services, wherever they are.
Tele Atlas also works with business partners, who trust the
company's digital map data to deliver some of the world’s most
important emergency, business fleet and infrastructure services
applications.
For
more information, please visit
www.teleatlas.com.
About ProMiles
ProMiles Software Development Corporation, developer of the
industry's Largest and Most Accurate Mileage and Mapping Database
with over 931,000 miles of truck useable roads, develops various
types of desktop (CD) and Web applications such as Route/Stop
Optimization, Fuel Tax Reporting, Fuel Management and Fuel
Purchase Optimization. Companies such as Wal-Mart, Ocean Spray,
Bayer and General Motors have benefited from the use of ProMiles
applications. ProMiles fuel price data has tens of thousands of
users across North America including nationwide chains such as
Pilot, Loves, Flying J as well as other country stores and travel
plazas. Every Canadian Province and the majority of US State/DOT
Auditors are using ProMiles® applications for IFTA, Log Book and
IRP compliance verification. ProMiles® gives the trucking industry
the same tools to pre-audit their records that the government uses
to perform an audit. For more information on ProMiles Software
Development Corporation, visit
www.ProMiles.com. For current fuel prices, visit
www.MyFuelPrices.com.
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For more information contact:
Krista Carlson
Tele Atlas Public Relations
650-833-5388
krista.carlson@na.teleatlas.com
Chris Lee
Project Manager
ProMiles Software Development Corporation
409-697-2587 ext. 231
Chris@ProMiles.com
