The release of Freeway 2008 and Freeway 2008 Premium, the industry standard drive time applications from Applied Spatial Technology, Inc. has been announced by Spatial Insights, Inc.

Along with output tables of drive times and drive distances between multiple origins and multiple destinations, Freeway creates drive time polygons. To delineate trade areas, and to analyze spatial relationships between locations based on drive time and distance, Freeway is widely used in site selection.

Freeway 2008 and Freeway 2008 Premium, enhanced with the most up-to-date street networks, offer increased accuracy to help solve spatial challenges, delineate trade areas, and analyze demographics. Freeway 2008 US, offering complete seamless nationwide coverage for the United States and Canada, was developed using current year TIGER data; current year Statistics Canada data was used for Freeway 2008 Canada; Freeway 2008 Premium uses 2007 Q4 NAVTEQ data for both countries. A UK/Ireland version of Freeway is also available.

Spatial Insights president, Don Segal, stated: "We feel that the Freeway 2008 suite of products offers the fastest and most accurate drive time analysis capability available." He added: "The annual update which incorporates the most recent road networks reinforces our commitment to provide the most accurate and user-friendly analytic products available."

Freeway 2008 and Freeway 2008 Premium, in addition to the standard stand-alone software purchases, are available as a software development kit, allowing the drive time analysis functionality to be embedded within other applications, or the development of fully customized drive time applications.

Specializing in innovative project consulting and mapping services, customized software solutions and data products for commercial organizations, Spatial Insights is a geographic information services company.