Waze

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Waze
Waze Carpool.png
NIST Sector Transportation
GICS Industrial Transportation
Smart Tag(s)
Business type Public
Year Founded 2008
Founder(s) Ehud Shabtai
Amir Shinar
Uri Levine
City, State Palo Alto CA
Country United States
Region Served Country
Executives Neha Parikh
Revenue $37.7M€ 33.176 <br />£ 27.898 <br />CA$ 47.879 <br />CNY 238.641 <br />KRW 46.199 <br />
Number of employees 100
Sponsorship Level Of Interest
Members


Waze (formerly FreeMap Israel) is a subsidiary of Google that provides satellite navigation software. It works on smartphones and other computers that have GPS support. It provides turn-by-turn navigation information and user-submitted travel times and route details, while downloading location-dependent information over a mobile telephone network. Waze describes its app as a community-driven GPS navigation app, which is free to download and use.

Activities

Transparent+Move+PGH+Logo.png Move PGH
Move PGH unites diverse mobility services and created to provide Pittsburghers with more choices to get everywhere you need and want to go. Think of it as your one-stop-shop for all your transportation needs in the City of Pittsburgh. In coordination with the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure (DOMI) and powered by a group of the city's premiere mobility operators dubbed the Pittsburgh Mobility Collective, Move PGH will create a streamlined and accessible experience for car-free urban mobility.
Chapel Hill Transit.jpg Using Real-Time Traffic Data to Improve Civic Transportation Services
This project will expand Chapel Hill’s Data program to incorporate Waze real-time traffic data.

Chapel Hill already uses the OpenDataSoft platform to share public data across the town government and with citizens. This project will allow to the town to quickly and seamlessly collect, harmonize and analyze real-time traffic data through the Waze Connected Citizens Program. The Waze Connected Citizen is a free data exchange program. The OpenDataSoft platform enables the two-way free data exchange between Waze and Chapel Hill and provides tools to analyze the data and compare it with other transportation data already offered by the town.

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