Traffic.com, a NAVTEQ company, unveiled today a beta version of “fastest drive now”, a feature that takes into account the current traffic and traffic trending conditions along the way and provides commuters the ability to easily obtain simultaneous results for address-to-address drives and traffic optimized routes. Drivers across the U.S. can now obtain the point A-to-B travel information they need to make the best decisions about when to leave and the fastest drive to take.

An accompanying interactive traffic map provides color-coded highlighted drives, pinpointed accident, construction and event icons as well as surrounding red, yellow and green real-time traffic flow on area roadways. Also provided with the beta release is dynamic interactive drive editing giving users the ability to instantly create custom drive time information simply by clicking and moving highlighted drives to alternate roadways on the map.

Traffic.com visitors can also access traffic information using the following ways:

+ HTML email traffic alerts and scheduled reports sent to your PC+ Text-only email traffic alerts and scheduled reports sent to your mobile device
+ Voice traffic alerts and scheduled reports sent to your cell phone or landline
+ SMS text message updates obtained by texting a city code to TRAFC (87232)
+ Toll-free traffic hotline updates obtained by calling 1-866-MY-TRAFC (1-866-698-7232)
+ Wireless web (WAP) site traffic hotspot updates accessed with any web-enabled device at mobi.traffic.com