Trafficmaster now offers live traffic information through its www.trafficmaster-online.com website. The website provides free, but time capped, access to detailed UK maps overlaid with traffic congestion information.

It offers a range of next generation, cross-platform traffic services to the fixed and mobile internet. Subscriptions to the service will be available for £35 a year through the website as well as the What Car? site.

Users will be able to plan routes, obtain traffic information and use a 'Journey Guard' facility that alerts them via Wap phone, SMS messaging or e-mail about expected delays on predefined or regular journeys.

Tony Eales, Trafficmaster corporate development director, said: “Trafficmaster-online.com provides an important opportunity for the continued development of our business to business partnerships.”