iiFind – The essential holiday travel pit stop planning app

Great weather, picturesque destinations and hitting the open road – summer’s an ideal time for a road trip.

Australians set out on almost 250,000 individual road trips domestically each year, many during this time of year[1].

Sadly, travel with family often turns sour, with a quarter of Australian’s believing that car rides cause arguments. Causes include tiredness (59%), back seat driving (46%), getting lost (33%) and repeated toilet stops (33%).[2] And yes, it’s women who report getting more than men.[3] New South Wales is the state most likely to argue (31%) and to get lost (37%) on long car journeys.[4]

Embarrassingly eight per cent of emergency callouts for roadside assistance in Victoria relate to failing to fill up. The national average is around five per cent.

An Australian-built app is making travel easy and argument-free.

“I decided to build the app after visiting friends one evening. I needed to stop for fuel and drinks but got lost and arrived so late as a result,’ said Yi Zhang, Founder of Telkitty Digital.

iiFind is great for life’s travelling necessities like food, fuel and bathroom stops. It shows the best route for a detour to food outlets, ATMs or petrol stations within a 200 kilometres radius at any point between your current location and destination.

‘I can get pretty fussy with what I eat too, so I made sure that people can narrow down their results based on preferences’, said Ms Zhang. 

No phone signal or Wi-Fi - no problem. iiFind allows search results to be saved and displayed when travelling through blackspots.

With around 20% of fatal road accidents involve driver fatigue, Ms Zhang hopes her app can help drivers better plan their trip both before the set out and en route.

Features include:

·       * Location search for food outlets, ATMs, fuel and public transport.

·      *  Search multiple categories with single results screen display.

·       * View search results on a map or list.

·       * Narrow search results to preferred suppliers.

·       * Search result information include phone number and website information. One click to call functionality.

·       * Save and display results when phone signal and Wi-Fi connection not available.

·       *Set visual or audio reminders.

The iiFind app, is available for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad operating systems. A free version, iiFind Lite, is also available for download on app store.

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