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Inrix powers on-street parking service for BMW 5 Series

Inrix has announced the availability of its On-Street Parking service in the new BMW 5 Series car, providing real-time on-street parking service for a connected car, using historical and real time parking data to predict the availability of parking spaces.
July 7, 2017 Read time: 1 min

163 Inrix has announced the availability of its On-Street Parking service in the new BMW 5 Series car, providing real-time on-street parking service for a connected car, using historical and real time parking data to predict the availability of parking spaces.

The BMW 5 Series also includes a real-time traffic service, powered by Inrix in North America, for up-to-the-minute and predictive traffic flow information for routes, travel times and alerts to accidents and incidents on over five million miles of roads. Inrix Traffic incorporates information from its network of more than 300 million connected vehicles and devices in over 40 countries.

The Inrix On-Street Parking service is live with 6419 BMW Group in 16 cities in Germany and the US, with more cities set to launch in 2017.

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