TomTom have launched a new online route planner, which allows travellers to pre-plan their journey with access to the company's traffic delay data. The system, which is open to free registration to ...

Accidentally straying into scary areas of town could become a thing of the past, because Microsoft has been awarded a patent for direction-finding technology that finds the safest route to your ...

Newly Published Apple Mapping Patent Details Route Feedback System, Real-Time Accident Reporting Thursday July 4, 2013 11:14 am PDT by Juli Clover ...

Farhad Farokhi receives funding from the University of Melbourne and the Australian Research Council. There are plenty of smartphone apps that can help map your movements as you are driving, cycling, ...

Starting next month, ALK Technologies hopes to take iOS device owners in a new direction. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona over the weekend, the navigation software maker announced plans for ...

Route optimization has become ever more important in recent years. The rise in e-commerce has created new routing pressures, especially in the last mile. At the same time, rising fuel costs, the push ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) -- Trimble Navigation Ltd. said Thursday that it bought privately held ALK Technologies Inc., which makes route-drawing tools for professional drivers. Financial terms were not ...

A world map hangs on the wall of Patrick Quayle's Willis Tower office, festooned with red pins showing the 113 cities, 68 countries and six continents he's visited. In his day job as head of ...