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Continental acquires mobility intelligence provider Quantum Inventions

Continental has announced of its acquisition of Singapore-based mobility intelligence provider Quantum Inventions. The deal will add to Continental’s growing intelligent transportation systems portfolio with Quantum’s city data including next generation navigation systems that are highly responsive to real-time information such as traffic data, road incident information and dynamic road pricing. Quantum’s solutions are based on its proprietary state-of-the-art data technology platform, which provides connec
August 10, 2017 Read time: 1 min
260 Continental has announced of its acquisition of Singapore-based mobility intelligence provider Quantum Inventions. The deal will add to Continental’s growing intelligent transportation systems portfolio with Quantum’s city data including next generation navigation systems that are highly responsive to real-time information such as traffic data, road incident information and dynamic road pricing.


Quantum’s solutions are based on its proprietary state-of-the-art data technology platform, which provides connected navigation, traffic and transportation intelligence, high-speed dynamic routing computation algorithms, and real-time probe data processing and analysis. The company has three business lines – automotive, telematics and intelligent mobility.

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