Traffic.com, a NAVTEQ subsidiary, has been targeted for a possible congressional investigation. Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) has asked the chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit to initiate an investigative hearing.
The reason, according to the Mother Jones article Hogging the Road…
"Under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), in more than a decade the politically connected Traffic.com has received over $50 million in sole-source government contracts to establish data-collection systems in at least 25 metropolitan areas. The stated goal of the program is to help state and local agencies manage traffic flow on increasingly congested roads. But the main beneficiary, according to critics, has been Traffic.com itself."
Traffic.com has recently come under criticism for public funding of their data collection, while charging public agencies and users to access that data. Now they’ve attracted congressional attention as a result. Hey, I’m sure that Nokia, the putative buyer of Traffic.com’s parent corporation NAVTEQ, has a great legal department!
Via BlinkGeo
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Traffic.com Target of Congressional Investigation?
Traffic.com, the new subsidiary of NAVTEQ, the target of a takeover by Nokia…… is the target of a possible investigation by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’ subcommittee on highways and Transit; whew! Anyway, according to Mot…