Google Maps brings live traffic coverage to 13 European countries, makes work weeks even shorter

The next time you head out for a leisurely Sunday drive along the autobahn, you might wanna take a minute to consult Google Maps' live traffic feature, now available in Germany and 12 other nations across Europe. Announced earlier this week, the new addition offers regularly updated coverage of all highways and major thoroughfares in countries like Spain, the Netherlands and Switzerland, while bringing more detailed street-level data to users in the UK. Europe's road warriors will also be able to use a legend to learn about traffic patterns at specific times or days of the week, making it even easier for you to micro-manage your summer getaway to the Swiss Alps. Learning how to fit all your luggage into the back of a Twingo, however, is another matter altogether.

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Polres Akan Siapkan Program TMC

TARAKAN –Sebagai pelayanan Quick ResponsTime secara profesional kepada masyarakat, pelayanan penegakan hukum dan pusat informasi bagi Polri dan Masyarakat, beberapa kota besar di Indonesia telah menerapkan Traffic Management Centre (TMC). Yakni suatu sistem yang terintegrasi didalam ruangan yang dilengkapi dengan teknologi komputer dan multimedia yang diintegrasikan dengan tenologi Global Positioning System (GPS).

Dengan TMC, selain untuk peningkatan pelayanan kepada masyarakat dengan waktu yang cepat, juga berfungsi menganalisa pelanggaran dan kecelakaan lalu lintas (Black Spot), pusat informasi kegiatan dan kemacetan lalu lintas, pusat informasi hilang temu kendaraan bermotor, pusat kendali patroli pencurian kendaraan bermotor dalam mewujudkan keselamatan dan keamanan ketertiban serta kelancaran lalu lintas yang dipantau dalam suatu ruangan terpadu.

Mengingat pentingnya program tersebut serta korelasi akan tuntutan masyarakat atas pelayanan yang profesional dan ditunjang perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi, bukan tidak mungkin Tarakan sebagai salah satu kota madya yang dalam beberapa tahun terakhir mengalami perkembangan cukup pesat menerapkan sistem itu. Hanya, untuk merealisasikannya tentu butuh persiapan dan fasilitas yang memadai. Seperti dikatakan Kapolres Tarakan Ajun Komisariat Besar Polisi (AKBP) Drs Agustinus Budi Prasetyo SH MH melalui Kepala Satuan Lalu Lintas (Kasat Lantas) AKP Budi Heryawan S.Sos, sistem TMC ini telah menjadi program Polres Tarakan kedepannya.

“Tarakan sudah ada program untuk masalah itu (TMC,red) kedepannya, tapi kita belum bisa pastikan kapan bisa terwujud. Sebab sarana dan fasilitas yang dibutuhkan tidak sedikit,” ujar AKP Budi Heryawan. Untuk menerapkan TMC ini lanjut Budi Heryawan, harus memiliki ruang khusus untuk pusat monitor komputer, sejumlah CCTV dan fasilitas lainnya yang hingga kini belum dimiliki oleh Polres Tarakan. Juga butuh dukungan instansi lainnya untuk bekerja sama mewujudkannya.

Apakah pernah mengajukan pengadaan ke Pemerintah Kota? “Kita ada rencana untuk koordinasi dengan pemkot dalam pengadaan CCTV ini kedepannya,” imbuhnya. Intinya, terang Budi Heryawan, Polres akan terus meningkatkan pelayanan prima untuk memenuhi kebutuhan masyarakat. Salah satunya akan membuat website Polres Tarakan untuk memberikan informasi seputar kegiatan Polres, informasi tentang lalu lintas, pelayanan pembuatan SIM, data laka, jumlah kendaraan dan sebagainya. Layanan keluhan msyarakat melalui SMS (Short Messaging Service) juga sudah ada.

Untuk Website, saat ini Polres Tarakan masih menginduk kepada Polda Kaltim dalam menyampaikan informasi kepada masyarakat Tarakan melalui Website. Bahkan keluhan-keluhan dari masyarakat dapat diakomodir dalam Website tersebut yang setiap hari dapat dimonitor oleh Polda. Sehingga apa yang terjadi di Tarakan secara langsung diketahui oleh institusi yang lebih tinggi.

Budi Heryawan berpesan, meskipun Polres Tarakan belum memiliki sistem canggih TMC seperti yang dimiliki daerah lain yang lebih maju, masyarakat tetap dapat tertib terhadap aturan lalu lintas yang berlaku. Terutama pengendara kendaraan roda dua khususnya kalangan muda agar tidak melakukan balapan liar mengingat banyaknya kecelakaan lalu lintas yang terjadi di Tarakan akibat aksi nekat tersebut.

Kepada para orang tua juga diminta agar dapat membantu mengawasi anaknya serta mengingatkan agar tidak mengebut-ngebutan dalam berkendara dijalan raya, karena sudah banyak nyawa yang melayang akibat perilaku pengendara balap liar ini.Selain itu, masyarakat diminta melengkapi kendaraanyadengan spion dan penunjang keamanan standar lainnya.(jnu/lhl)

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GPS Akustik Akan Dipasang di Selat Sunda

Selat Sunda.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com — Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia atau LIPI berharap dapat segera memasang sejumlah alat GPS akustik untuk meneliti pergerakan lempeng di Selat Sunda. Demikian dikatakan Prof Dr Hery Harjono, peneliti dari Pusat Penelitian Geoteknologi LIPI, dalam seminar hasil penelitian kerja sama dengan Jepang yang digelar pada Rabu (15/6/2011).

"Alat ini digunakan untuk meneliti lempeng bawah laut. Namanya Keitei Shikaku Hendou. Di Jepang sudah dipakai sejak 10 tahun yang lalu," kata Hery. Ia mengatakan, saat ini pihaknya sedang berupaya mengusulkan kepada pemerintah untuk memakai alat itu.

Hery menerangkan, dengan alat ini, global positioning system (GPS) akan dipasang pada kapal dan di darat sementara sonar akustik akan dipasang di bawah laut. Nantinya, alat tersebut dapat membaca gerak lempeng relatif terhadap kapal, termasuk gerak kapal relatif dengan daratan. Dengan cara itu, pergerakan lempeng bisa diketahui. Menurut Hery, aplikasi GPS akustik sangat penting terutama di Selat Sunda dan lepas pantai selatan Jawa.

"Kalau di Mentawai ada banyak pulau-pulau, jadi kita bisa pasang GPS di sana. Kalau di Selat Sunda dan selatan Jawa ini agak sulit. Padahal, Jawa ini, kan, lebih tidak diketahui daripada Sumatera," ungkapnya.

Gempa yang bersumber dari aktivitas di Selat Sunda, menurut Hery, memang sejauh ini tidak pernah terdeteksi mencapai 8 skala Richter. Namun, apa yang terjadi ke depan belum bisa dipastikan. Oleh karena itu, pemakaian alat deteksi menjadi penting, terlebih banyak prediksi gempa yang meleset, terkait jumlah segmen dan kekuatannya.

Selain aplikasi alat seperti GPS akustik, Hery memandang perlunya perubahan persepsi di masyarakat."Persepsi yang sudah berkembang di masyarakat itu, kan, kadang mereka merasa daerah mereka aman," kata Hery.

Ia juga menyinggung pentingnya desain bangunan yang tahan gempa. Dalam pertemuan untuk menyampaikan hasil riset kerja sama dengan Jepang yang berlangsung hari ini, Hery memaparkan hasil penelitian seputar gempa, tsunami, dan aktivitas gunung berapi. Berkaitan dengan tema presentasi itu, ia menggarisbawahi peran ilmuwan untuk fokus tetap melakukan penelitian.

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Real Time Traffic: “The Big Revolution is Two-Way Traffic Data” (4 of 4)

TrafficCast’s BlueTOAD

He said AirSage, working with Westwood One (Metro Traffic), has come up with some kind of flow data that is being reported.“They would tell you that they are still at the early stages, at least months away after I don’t know how many years from a commercially releasable flow data service based on cell handset signalling,” he said.Bluetooth and ImagesAnother real-time data source that’s emerging is the leveraging of Bluetooth monitoring data – BT sensors along highways that are being deployed for local traffic management infrastructure types of projects.

However, Lanctot said it will take time before TrafficCast’s solution – BlueTOAD, which sniffs out passing Bluetooth-equipped devices – will have any significant impact.

“But it’s out there and will play a roll eventually. Certainly Bluetooth is pretty much ubiquitous at this point. It just remains to be seen what that data will look like and what the downside or problems with it will be.

The analyst said another area where there’s a huge source of debate in the industry is traffic camera information.

He said he wasn’t sure he would recommend looking at traffic camera images while driving – and there is a challenge in orienting yourself to a place.

However, he said the images will improve, while sensors and the means to interpret the data from those cameras that is being gathered will be added – including vehicle counting and maybe even licence plate recognition or reading.

“That will have an impact and another wave of innovation that will hit real-time traffic. What you are seeing now are solutions in the car that will deliver maybe a still image,” he said.

“To make that useful what is needed is an interface where you can ask for cameras on my route and so on. So the integration is still taking place and that will take time.”

New Possibilities

Lanctot said with the emergence of bigger pipes and more efficient means of delivering data, the big revolution is two-way traffic data – not just real-time but two-way involving probe data from the car.

This will give drivers the ability to report on incidents as they drive by, or passively to feed sensor data from cameras on cars: “People will have to open their minds a bit and think about what could be."

Lanctot said that in Europe, INRIX, ITIS and MILE Traffic and Travel are at the forefront of these solutions.

He said the sleeping giant is Nokia: “With all this probe data are they going to rise up and take over this industry? The missing piece there appears to be a vision of what a traffic experience should be and a standardised platform that could be rolled out globally.

“I think INRIX and ITIS, which has a licensing model for other countries, are in the forefront of creating standardised traffic solutions. NAVTEQ appears to be lagging here".

Finally, when it came to traffic, the analyst said the whole area is underestimated by some people and vastly misunderstood despite being absolutely critical.

“The important point is that if your traffic data sucks your navigation solution will suck. Because your navigation will be based on non-useful, irrelevant or inaccurate traffic information,” he said. “You need good traffic data to have a good navigation solution.”

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TomTom HD Traffic

Probe Data

Turning to the European real time traffic data market, Lanctot said TomTom has in the recent past been the dominant solution with HD Traffic.

He said the great leap forward there was the use of Vodafone data: “What is interesting there is that they are saying there are getting a sufficient number of probes and are using them more than they are using the Vodafone data.

“What they have come close to but have not quite said is that they are not using Vodafone data at all.”

Lanctot said that is an indication of the enhanced accuracy of the probe data – that it’s a superior data source, which is where INRIX also benefits from its fleet relationships.

“Having probe data coming from a vehicle is always going to be superior to getting probe data from a device or cell tower signalling location data from a device.

“There’s so much more work you have to do to make sense of the other data.”

However, Lanctot said the suggestion now is that HD Traffic may no longer be the top solution. He said his understanding is that what NAVIGON is currently doing is superior to the TomTom offering.

“I can’t vouch for that but it’s what people are saying. That NAVIGON, which uses INRIX, has a competitive solution,” he said.

False Positive

His own recent experience was comparing ITIS Holdings embedded in a BMW 7 Series driving in the UK with a TomTom with HD Traffic on the dash.

“The problem with the HD Traffic – and I think in the UK they are using the Vodafone data – is that with this cell signalling you get this, for a want of a better term, false positive,” he said.

“You don’t get incident data but what you are getting is flow. And I think there are some misinterpretations of the information that are suggesting there is congestion when there isn’t.”

Lanctot said this was reflected in TomTom’s announcement in which they said they identify 200% more incidents than competing devices. He said that was great if those are real incidents.

“It’s not clear that they really are. So that was sort of an unfortunate announcement by TomTom, which otherwise has a great reputation, product and service,” he said.

“That I think was a little bit misleading and pointed to the fact that using that data you do get some false positive readings about congestion.”

As to why that is, the analyst said it might have something to do with those signals only being useful when people move between one cell and another – and the data not being valid for people that are moving around within one cell.

“ I know it’s extraordinarily complex. So I salute the fact that TomTom, and ITIS too, have been able to use that sort of data and turn it into something commercially useful because no-one in the US has been able to do that,” he said.

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Real Time Traffic: “The Big Revolution is Two-Way Traffic Data” (2 of 4)

 Traffic in AUDI dashboard in Europe

TPEG Traffic Data

Lanctot said he believes that what has happened in Europe is significant for what will happen in the US as bigger pipes to cars continue emerging.

He said the recent Audi announcement was a huge development for the real-time traffic industry globally.

“The concept there was the delivery of TPEG traffic data over the customers’ embedded modem. So you needed a bigger pipe than was available because Europe doesn’t have a digital radio standard,” he said.

“It’s a mess. You don’t have this large landmass where there’s a digital radio solution like HD radio in the US. So Audi made a ground-breaking decision to decide to take that TPEG data and send it over the SIM card. That’s a really big deal.”

However, Lanctot said the strange twist to the story is that in the US they introduced the same platform where the customer plugs in a SIM card – not their own SIM card.

But in spite of having a very big HSPA+ pipe to the car, traffic data is being sent over the Sirius satellite.

Android app from INRIX

Disappointing Experience

“The big problem is, and it’s a controversial issue, is that my own personal experience with Sirius and XM has been extremely disappointing of all the services for real-time traffic data that I have used,” he said.

“Now, it’s hard to get real-time traffic right and I’ve yet to see anybody reproduce real-time traffic reality in complete fidelity on all occasions, in all places and at all times. It’s a very difficult proposition.

“But I can tell you, I’ve had more negative experiences with satellite radio traffic data.” Lanctot said he didn’t know if the data cap on the XM flavor of traffic data had anything to do with this.

“I don’t know if SiriusXM is having to reduce the data set they are getting from Traffic.com to report, but all I can tell you is that whenever I use that service, it’s always a disappointing experience,” he said.

“My experience has been validated by various Tier 1s that have done their own testing and found the Sirius real-time traffic data to be seriously wanting.”

The analyst said he has HD radio in his car but gets the ClearChannel data feed over the FM side-band: “The ClearChannel is using INRIX for the predictive and so on, and I find the INRIX solution with ClearChannel to be more accurate.”

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Real Time Traffic: “The Big Revolution is Two-Way Traffic Data” (1 of 4)

INTERVIEW: The world of real time traffic data is increasingly fluid. To get an overview of the market GPS Business News spoke to Roger Lanctot, senior analyst with Strategy Analytics, about the emergence of more efficient data delivery methods, two-way traffic data, the leveraging of Bluetooth monitoring data, traffic camera information and Nokia’s potential to take over this industry.  

Roger Lanctot

Bigger pipes to the car and increasing two-way communication between vehicles are two factors likely to dominate real time traffic in the key US and European markets over the next few years.

That’s according to Roger Lanctot, senior analyst with Strategy Analytics’ Global Automotive Practice, who expects vehicles with traffic data to almost automatically become probes in their own networks.

In an interview with GPS Business News he began by giving an overview of the real time traffic data market in the US. Lanctot said the dominant player today for systems in cars is NAVTEQ with its Traffic.com-based solution. This is thanks in large part to the partnership with SiriusXM.

In the more competitive mobile device space, he said INRIX is the dominant player – although the marketplace is changing rapidly.

“Or as rapidly as the automotive industry can change. This is why mobile is so significant because it can change in a heartbeat,” he said.

“But we are talking about data and server-based solutions, algorithmic technology. That doesn’t change quickly because what car makers, and even device makers, are looking for is global solutions. Those do take a bit of time to refine and roll out.”

However, Lanctot said the connectivity profile is changing – and it’s different in the US than it is in Europe. He said despite the US having a digital radio infrastructure in place it had not yet become standard. “It’s probably on its way to becoming standard in cars. An important reason for that is the enhanced data services like weather, parking, news and of course TPEG-based traffic,” he said.

“But HD radio is only available for about 50% of cars – and that’s a real rough estimate.”

Lanctot said while digital radio is in the process of getting deployed, the dominant platform for real time traffic remains satellite radio.

He said auto-makers are still embracing embedded or smartphone connectivity piece by piece in the car.

From a smartphone connectivity perspective, however, mobile is beginning to influence automotive solutions.

“That is manifesting with Ford SYNC and MyFord Touch, which is using the INRIX real-time traffic,” he said. “I believe Toyota has adopted INRIX for the entune connectivity platform.

“Now, you have OnStar, which has a 2.5G embedded modem, currently using Traffic.com over the satellite radio feed, not over the modem into the car. They are planning to shift to TrafficCast actually for real-time traffic data.”

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Pusat Komando TMC Polda Metro Jaya Berteknologi Canggih

Macet. Itulah yang belakangan kian membuat pusing warga DKI Jakarta dan sekitarnya. Bagi para eksekutif yang supersibuk, kemacetan tentu sangat mengganggu. Waktu adalah uang. Dengan kemacetan tersebut, banyak waktu mereka yang akhirnya terbuang percuma. Selain menjengkelkan, kemacetan itu juga bisa menyebabkan deal bisnis terancam gagal.

Kemacetan di Jakarta makin menjadi-jadi terutama semenjak adanya pembangunan jalur busway Transjakarta koridor VIII, IX, dan X. Titik-titik kemacetan meningkat 100%. Kalau biasanya “hanya” 41 titik kemacetan, kini menjadi 81 titik. Untuk menanggulangi kemacetan tersebut, Kepolisian Daerah (Polda) Metro Jaya menggelar Operasi Jala Jaya. Jumlah petugas pengatur lalu lintas pun ditambah dua kali lipat, dari 416 menjadi 862 personel.

Bagaimana pihak Polda mengatur penempatan para personel polisi itu? Untunglah Polda Metro Jaya memiliki Traffic Management Center (TMC) sebagai pusat komando, kendali, dan informasi lalu lintas. “Semua pengaturan penempatan personel dilakukan melalui TMC,” ujar Komisaris Polisi Sambodo Purnomo Yoga, koordinator TMC. Sambodo mengungkapkan, untuk mengatur lalu lintas di kawasan Jakarta-Bogor-Depok-Tangerang-Bekasi (Jabodetabek) tak bisa lagi dilakukan hanya dengan cara-cara konvensional. Apalagi permasalahan lalu lintas di Jabodetabek kian hari kian kompleks. Kemacetan tak bisa lagi diatasi dengan cara-cara yang reaktif. Misalnya, cukup dengan memerintahkan personel kepolisian melalui Handy Talky (HT) untuk mengatasi kemacetan. Guna mengendalikan arus lalu lintas di Jakarta dan sekitarnya, pihak Polda Metro Jaya membutuhkan satu sistem yang terintegrasi dan terpadu.

Sistem ini berfungsi menghimpun dan mengendalikan seluruh informasi yang berkaitan dengan kemacetan, kecelakaan, pelanggaran lalu lintas, registrasi kendaraan, dan data identitas pengendara (Surat Izin Mengemudi, SIM) di daerah Jabodetabek. Berbekal sistem ini, Polda Metro Jaya bisa melakukan tindakan preventif dalam menanggulangi kemacetan. Maka, mereka pun membuat TMC yang dilengkapi dengan fasilitas teknologi informasi (TI) dan multimedia.

Dilengkapi GPS

TMC di Polda Metro Jaya sebenarnya mulai dioperasikan sejak Maret 2005. Semula, TMC berlokasi di kantor Direktorat Lalu Lintas, Polda Metro Jaya yang lama, di bilangan Pancoran, Jakarta. Namun, sejak awal 2007, TMC dipindahkan di kantor pusat Polda Metro Jaya di Jl. Gatot Subroto. Fasilitas apa saja yang ada di situ?

Berada di lantai II, gedungnya persis berhadapan dengan pintu masuk bagian timur Polda Metro Jaya, TMC menempati ruangan seluas 400 meter persegi. Di sana ada 23 set komputer, satu layar besar, dan beberapa layar kecil serta overhead projector (OHP). Peralatan tersebut dioperasikan oleh beberapa personel kepolisian. Dari ruangan inilah mereka mengendalikan lalu lintas Kota Jakarta.

Ada beberapa aplikasi dalam sistem komputer TMC. Misalnya, peta Geographic Information Systems (GIS) yang menyajikan semua pos polisi yang ada di Jabodetabek. Jika salah satu pos di peta GIS di-klik, akan muncul nama dan nomor ponsel polisi yang sedang bertugas. GIS ini dilengkapi pula dengan sistem analisis data. Jika dibutuhkan, informasi mengenai kecelakaan lalu lintas yang terjadi dalam kurun waktu tiga hari, satu minggu, satu bulan, atau bahkan satu tahun ke belakang, tinggal klik. Informasi lebih mendetail mengenai kecelakaan pun bisa diperoleh, seperti tentang data korban, jenis kendaraan yang bertabrakan, nomor polisi kendaraa, dan jumlah korban.

Menurut Sambodo, data kecelakaan tersebut bisa disajikan secara lengkap karena TMC sudah online dengan seluruh satuan lalu lintas pada semua kepolisian resor (polres) yang ada di Jabodetabek. Setiap kecelakaan lalu lintas yang ditangani oleh polres-polres, datanya akan langsung masuk ke TMC.

TMC juga didukung dengan perangkat GPS yang memantau 100 kendaraan patroli, mobil dan motor, yang dilengkapi peralatan GPS. Jadi, jika ada laporan kecelakaan dari masyarakat, TMC bisa langsung menugaskan personel patroli yang berada pada titik terdekat untuk segera datang ke lokasi kejadian.

Hebatnya lagi, dari ruangan ini, bisa terpantau pula kondisi lalu lintas pada beberapa ruas jalan yang sudah dipasangi kamera closed-circuit television (CCTV). Saat ini, CCTV sudah terpasang pada 40 titik. Lokasinya, di antaranya, di seputar Istana Merdeka, bundaran Senayan, kawasan Semanggi, Harmoni, Pancoran, Salemba, Bandara Soekarno-Hatta, perempatan Coca-Cola, dan beberapa titik lainnya. “Melalui CCTV, kami bisa memantau kondisi yang terjadi di jalanan secara real time,” ujar Sambodo.

TMC juga sedang melakukan uji coba penggunaan smart CCTV. Saat ini sudah ada tiga smart CCTV yang terletak di beberapa lokasi. Benda ini berfungsi meng-capture nomor polisi kendaraan yang lewat di depan kamera. Image atau gambar yang terekam kemudian diubah menjadi data digital. Dari tiga layar yang ada di TMC, tampak beberapa mobil yang melintasi smart CCTV langsung teridentifikasi nomor polisinya. Bahkan, alat ini sebenarnya juga bisa digunakan untuk mengidentifikasi kendaraan-kendaraan yang melintas melebihi ambang batas kecepatan. Ke depan, menurut rencana, TMC, bekerja sama dengan satuan kerja reserse dan penegakan hukum, akan memfungsikan smart CCTV guna melacak kendaraan yang hilang, kendaraan yang digunakan untuk melakukan tindak kejahatan, atau belum membayar pajak.

Roy Suryo, pakar telematika, mengingatkan jangan sampai pemanfaatan TI dan multimedia ini menimbulkan kesan show force. Roy menyarankan agar TMC mulai melakukan analisis dan evaluasi terhadap kondisi-kondisi yang menyebabkan kemacetan lalu lintas. “Setiap minggu harus ada riset yang menghasilkan rekaman data, tidak hanya rekaman visual. Dalam kondisi seperti apa saja kemacetan biasanya terjadi,” kata Roy, sembari mengkritik Polda Metro Jaya yang dinilainya melakukan cara-cara yang sporadis dalam menanggulangi kemacetan di Jakarta.

Terintegrasi dengan Samsat

Sistem TMC juga sudah terintegrasi dengan semua kantor Sistem Administrasi Manunggal di bawah Satu Atap (Samsat) di semua wilayah Jabodetabek. Integrasi ini membantu personel yang bertugas di lapangan jika mereka mendapati ada kendaraan yang dicurigai atau melakukan pelanggaran. Jadi, personel polisi yang bertugas tak perlu lagi menghubungi kantor Samsat di suatu wilayah hanya untuk mengidentifikasi apakah nomor polisi kendaraan sudah sesuai dengan peruntukan jenis kendaraan. Cukup menghubungi TMC dan memberitahukan nomor polisi kendaraan tersebut, operator akan memberitahukan semua data kendaraan. Dari situ dengan mudah diketahui apakah kendaraan tersebut hasil curian atau bukan.

Namun, di lapangan, Sambodo mengeluhkan belum rapinya administrasi kepemilikan mobil-mobil bekas. Ia menemukan masih banyak mobil bekas yang dijual dan pembelinya tidak melakukan balik nama. Bahkan, ada mobil yang sudah berpindah tangan hingga tujuh kali, tetapi status kepemilikan dalam Buku Pemilik Kendaraan Bermotor (BPKB) masih pembeli pertama. Padahal, untuk membayar pajak kendaraan (Surat Tanda Nomor Kendaraan, STNK), Polda Metro Jaya sudah mensyaratkan harus menyertakan Kartu Tanda Penduduk (KTP) dan BPKB asli pemilik kendaraan. Namun, kenyataannya, masih banyak yang menggunakan fotokopi KTP pemilik kendaraan yang lama.

Polda Metro Jaya sangat berkepentingan dengan penataan kepemilikan kendaraan tersebut. Belajar dari pengalaman ledakan bom di Kedutaan Besar Australia di Jl. Rasuna Said, Jakarta, kendaraan yang digunakan untuk melakukan pengeboman—ketika dicek melalui database—ternyata sudah berganti pemilik hingga tujuh kali. “Tentu hal itu sangat menyulitkan,” ujar Sambodo yang punya hobi bulutangkis ini.

Selain itu, data kepemilikan kendaraan sangat penting, terutama jika kelak foto bisa menjadi alat bukti. Apabila ada yang melakukan pelanggaran lalu lintas dan terfoto melalui kamera smart CCTV, di pelanggar bisa langsung ditilang. Namun, untuk bisa menilang, tentu harus ada database yang akurat, misalnya siapa pemilik kendaraannya, sehingga pihak Polda tahu kepada siapa tilang mesti disampaikan.

Selain data kendaraan, data pemegang SIM ikut pula ditanamkan dalam sistem TMC. Apa gunanya? Sambodo menjelaskan, Polda Metro Jaya ingin mengarah pada pencatatan pelanggaran lalu lintas oleh para pengemudi. Jika pemilik SIM pernah melakukan pelanggaran lalu lintas, kasus-kasusnya akan muncul. “Jadi, kalau mereka sampai beberapa kali melanggar lalu lintas dan ditilang, SIM-nya bisa saja dicabut,” ujarnya.

Nano Sasongko, sekjen Asosiasi Peranti Lunak Indonesia (Aspiluki), yang pernah bekerja sama dengan Polda Metro Jaya dalam pemasangan perangkat GPS, menilai memang perlu dilakukan pembenahan sistem kepolisian secara menyeluruh untuk memaksimalkan pemanfaatan TMC. Akurasi data di TMC, lanjut Nano, hanya akan tercapai jika sistemnya sudah benar.

Identifikasi dan Law Enforcement

Pemanfaatan alat-alat canggih tersebut tak hanya untuk memenuhi kebutuhan internal Polda Metro Jaya. TMC sebenarnya dirancang untuk menjawab kebutuhan masyarakat akan pentingnya informasi yang berkaitan dengan lalu lintas, seperti informasi kemacetan, kecelakaan lalu lintas, dan identifikasi kendaraan. Apalagi jika mengingat tingginya angka pencurian kendaraan bermotor. Oleh sebab itu, TMC juga diintegrasikan ke semua saluran pengaduan dan pelaporan, baik melalui SMS Gateway 1717, hotline polisi 112, faksimile, radio Suara Metro, maupun website. Ternyata, respons masyarakat pun cukup antusias.

Data terakhir, sejak Januari 2007 sampai dengan 12 November 2007, misalnya, ada 603.249 pengaduan yang masuk ke TMC. Ini artinya setara dengan 1.900-an pengaduan per hari, atau 1,3 pengaduan per menit. Lumayan tinggi. Jika dirinci, pengaduan lewat SMS 1717 mencapai 504.962 kasus, melalui telepon 86.592 kasus, internet 7.571 kasus, radio 3.815 kasus, dan faksimile 309 kasus. Jumlah itu naik terus jika dirunut sejak TMC beroperasi pada 2005.

Lalu, menyangkut jenis layanan, informasi yang paling banyak ditanyakan adalah pengecekan nomor polisi, lalu informasi soal lokasi SIM keliling, lokasi STNK keliling, dan lain-lain. Selain itu, masyarakat juga memanfaatkan saluran komunikasi tersebut untuk melaporkan masalah mabuk-mabukan, pencurian kendaraan bermotor, penipuan, dan lain-lain. Sambodo menegaskan, TMC berusaha melayani informasi yang diminta oleh masyarakat dan menindaklanjuti pengaduan tersebut. Guna menangani tingginya trafik SMS, TMC tengah menyiapkan mesin penjawab otomatis.

Sejauh ini, SMS yang disampaikan masyarakat bisa dijawab dalam waktu sekitar lima menit. Sementara itu, untuk laporan mengenai kecelakaan dan tindak kriminalitas, dalam waktu 15 menit polisi sudah harus ada di lokasi kejadian. Dengan bantuan GIS dan GPS, TMC bisa langsung memerintahkan petugas terdekat untuk datang ke lokasi.

Guna memudahkan masyarakat mengetahui kondisi ruas jalan secara langsung, TMC akan bekerja sama dengan operator telekomunikasi. Kelak, TMC bisa menampilkan gambar video live yang menampilkan ruas jalan mana saja yang macet melalui ponsel. “Jadi, mereka bisa menghindar dan mencari jalan alternatif,” tandas Sambodo.

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Traffic Message Channel (TMC)

Traffic Message Channel (TMC) is a technology for delivering traffic and travel information to drivers. It is typically digitally coded using the FM-RDS system on conventional FM radio broadcasts. It can also be transmitted on DAB or satellite radio. It allows silent delivery of dynamic information suitable for reproduction or display in the language chosen by the user and without interrupting normal audio broadcast services. Services, both public and commercial, are now operational in many countries worldwide. When data is integrated directly into a navigation system, this gives the driver the option to take alternative routes to avoid traffic incidents.

How it works

Each traffic incident is binary-encoded and sent as a TMC message. Each message consists of an event code and a location code in addition to expected incident duration, affected extent and other details.

The message is coded according to the Alert C standard. It contains a list of up to 2048 event phrases (1402 pr 01.02.2007) which can be translated by a TMC receiver into the language of the user. Some phrases describe individual situations such as a crash, while others cover combinations of events such as a crash causing long delays.

In Europe, location code tables are maintained on a national level, assigning numerical codes to locations (typically major junctions) on the road network. Those location tables are integrated in the maps provided by in-vehicle navigation system companies such as NAVTEQ and Tele Atlas, and by vehicle manufacturers such as Volvo. In other countries such as the U.S. and Canada, private companies maintain the location tables and market TMC services commercially.

Sources of traffic information typically include police, traffic control centres, camera systems, traffic speed detectors, floating car data, winter driving reports, roadwork reports and others.

TMC-Forum is a non-profit organization. The members are service providers, receiver manufactures, car manufactures, map vendors, broadcasters (public and private), automobile clubs, public authorities and others. It is a forum to discuss traffic information related aspects. Furthermore it maintains the TMC-Standard (ISO 14819). On 11 November 2007 the TMC-Forum and the TPEG-Forum has merged into TISA (Traveller Information Services Association). TISA has taken over all TMC-Forum activities.

RDS-TMC is an extremely low-bandwidth system, with each RDS-TMC message comprising only 37 data bits sent at most 1-3 times per second, using a very basic data channel primarily designed for FM radio tuning and station name identification. Compressing entire traffic incident descriptions in multiple languages into a mere 16 bits for a location, 11 bits for an event code, plus 5 bits for an extent and a few more bits for the duration and system management might be regarded a miracle of ingenuity, whose need was dictated by constraints already set in the pre-existing RDS standard. Almost all the broadcast data bits were already taken.

Given so few bits to work with, one major design challenge of RDS-TMC was to find a way of using 16 bits (about 65000 locations) to describe an entire state or country. Such a system could not convey latitude-longitude data so easily available 25 years later with great precision using GPS. Instead RDS-TMC has to rely on the use of relatively lean location tables, pointing only to significant road junctions along defined national and regional highways. The precision of each traffic events’ location when compared to modern GPS devices can seem to be low. The user’s navigation system locates a driver to about 3 metres, but only knows that the crash is between Exit 3 and Exit 4, northbound on the motorway. This is because traffic events (accidents, congestion, burst water mains, faulty traffic lights, etc.) have to be superimposed onto the maps in users’ GPS devices by matching the reported location into the location table.

Navigation system makers may maintain that if the nearest location table point (nearest significant junction) is located some distance from the point of the crash, then the traffic event might be shown on the device as being out of place. (In reality, it is shown as being on a section of main road between two junctions.) Even if the lack of accuracy causes an error of only a short distance this could make a significant difference as to how the program in the GPS device will interpret the event in relation to the user’s planned route. For example, if there is roadwork close to a junction the position of the roadwork may be interpreted as being a short distance away. This could place the apparent roadwork on the other side of the junction. The consequence would be that the GPS device might not divert the user from the roadwork because it was assumed to not affect the route.

In fact, though, operationally, this level of detail may be exactly what is required. From the police and road authorities’ viewpoints, it may be as just much as they wish to give out. The police may not want sightseers homing in on exact crash sites. Also, road authorities and local communities do not want drivers taking shortcuts through the minor residential streets now opened up by in-vehicle navigation systems. On motorways and other limited-access roads, knowing where the crash is located to 3 meters is no help to casual drivers when road junctions are kilometers apart. On city streets, the commercial needs of navigation system users may be to cut through minor residential roads and play areas, but this is not necessarily the optimum solution from a community perspective. The fact that actual public deployments of RDS-TMC listed later in this article have rarely used more than 10% of the available locations suggests that it may be public policy as much as technology that is currently limiting the system’s precision.

In the U.S. and elsewhere, systems such as CARS already exist that could track and pinpoint event locations with accuracies of a meter, and these real-time data are already being published in XML for access by companies such as Google and TomTom. These incident reports are also being received from Google on mobile phones and handheld devices that are in vehicles already. Laws on the use of mobile devices may determine that this is potentially dangerous, but it exists and is working today. In conclusion, though, what this discussion has missed so far is that live incident reports themselves are almost always highly uncertain in terms of precise locations. But if it is assumed that these will get better, we now have technology required to provide the data. It is now up to society to regulate how much detail shall be given, and how safe it is for users to use these data in real time while they drive.

In April 2007 research about RDS-TMC was presented at the CanSecWest security conference by two Italian security researchers.

The presentation, titled Unusual Car Navigation Tricks, raised the point that RDS-TMC is a wireless cleartext protocol and showed how to build a receiver and transmitter with cheap electronics, capable of injecting false and potentially dangerous messages.

TMC-Forum is a non-profit organization. The members are service providers, receiver manufactures, car manufactures, map vendors, broadcasters (public and private), automobile clubs, public authorities and others. It is a forum to discuss traffic information related aspects. Furthermore it maintains the TMC-Standard (ISO 14819). On 11 November 2007 the TMC-Forum and the TPEG-Forum has merged into TISA (Traveller Information Services Association). TISA has taken over all TMC-Forum activities

An RDS-TMC receiver is in effect a special FM radio tuner that can decode TMC data. Satellite TMC receivers utilize a dedicated data channel that is broadcast as part of the much larger broadcast digital audio channels. TMC decoding is carried out by matching event and location codes against look-up tables of phrases and locations that can be translated into audio or displayed on a Sat nav device. The look-up tables must be implemented in a service-specific database mapped to geographic routes and intersections. As with the navigation systems themselves, periodic upgrades are needed as the road system changes. These steps provide opportunities for vendors to generate revenue from users who cannot use the system unless they have the latest lookup tables. [2]

The techical concepts of RDS-TMC started to be developed about 30 years ago, initially by Blaupunkt and Philips. With European Commission funding, the BBC, Transport Research Laboratory and CCETT came together in a team led by Castle Rock Consultants to develop the standard. More recently, dedicated navigation device (PND) has emerged as an alternative way of delivering traffic information via mobile phones and hand-held PDAs with GPS.[3] Nevertheless, automobile companies continue to roll out RDS-TMC launches in various countries across the world. One reason is that the use of cellular phones and PDAs by drivers is attracting a great deal of legislative attention concerned about driver distraction. Like car radios, in-vehicle navigation systems have not so far attracted the same concerns, and may continue to outsell handheld solutions, just as luxury car radios eventually outsold pocket transistor radios in the 20th century.

The reality is that both types of services have their place, with no single solution having all the answers. Higher-end models of Personal Navigation Assistant come with a TMC receiver built-in and depending on the country, the service is available in Eclipse, Garmin, iPhone (Navigon), Navman, Navway, Mio, Pioneer, TomTom and Uniden navigation systems, and in Volvo, BMW and Ford Falcon navigation systems, among many others.

There are also TMC adapters, which extends mobile navigation systems with integrated GPS receiver (as mobile phones/PDAs with GPS) with TMC functionality. They can include a bluetooth or non-bluetooth (mainly, USB) connection. With help of the adapter, the received traffic messages are through-handed to the navigation software, these can again compute an alternative route with consideration of the new traffic conditions and avoid the traffic jam. The adaptors generally includes connector for FM/TMC Antenna (2,5mm phone jack). Some example of compatible navigation programs are Navigon MN5, Falk Navigator TMC Edition (special version for MyGuide Navigator 6500XL TMC Bundle) and Destinator PN.[4]

Simple RDS-TMC Decoder is a simple RDS (Radio Data System) decoder written for TMC analysis.[5]

In some places, TMC coverage is smaller than that of the radio programme carrying the TMC service, therefore white spots exist. For example, in the USA, one of the two TMC commercial services is run by Clear Channel Communications, whose 95 FM station urban markets will probably all have some level of traffic information services. However, the other is Sirius Satellite Radio, which covers all of North America, including deeply rural areas and almost empty deserts. Although vendors are beginning to make arrangements with statewide and multi-state information source systems such as CARS, operated by state police and state departments of transportation, it can be expected that coverage will remain sketchy in some states during the next few years. [6]

The following countries provide a TMC service:

Australia

Intelematics Australia broadcasts a national RDS-TMC service focused initially on urban Australia, under the consumer brand ‘SUNA Traffic Channel’. The service, which reaches around 85% of urban Australia is transmitted by commercial FM broadcasters in seven cities, as well as via XML for online and smartphone applications. The service is available on GPS systems including TomTom, Navman, Garmin, Uniden, iPhone (Navigon), Mio, Eclipse and Pioneer navigation systems, and in Ford Falcon navigation. SUNA is currently the only source of comprehensive, metropolitan congestion monitoring content in Australia – this is achieved using proprietary technology interfacing to traffic light control systems. The Suna broadcast service is fully compliant with both the RDS and TMC standard.

Sentinel Content Pty Limited provides a TMC Service service for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane and is delivered using webservices and GPRS rather than RDS. While it does not broadcast an RDS service it does provide navigation vendors with web based traffic services.

Austria

In Austria, ORF is broadcasting the service, free of charge, on the radio channels Ö1, Ö2 (9 regional channels), Ö3, Radio Salzburg and FM4 and is supported by the Federal Ministry for Traffic, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT). ASFINAG is responsible for the location table, currently in version 2.1, which has undergone a number of updates in order to handle increased use during Euro 2008. In total, around 8.000 location codes are present in this table.

Baltic region

Destia Traffic has expressed plans to start broadcasting traffic information in the Baltic region soon.[citation needed]

Belgium

In Belgium there are 4 TMC services: TMOBILIS in Belgium, TIC-VL and 4FMTMC in Flanders and RTBF in Wallonia. All of them (except for TMOBILIS) are currently open services.

The first service is TMOBILIS provided by Be-Mobile and Touring Mobilis. It is the only fully Belgian service: On the one hand it combines all Belgian sources from the Flemish, Walloon and Brussels government, the police stations, a national Floating Car Datasystem based on Proximus and GPS vehicles, and the Touring Mobilis call center. On the other hand it is also nationally broadcast by both VRT on Studio Brussel for Flanders and RTBF on Classic21 in Wallonia.

The service TIC-VL is broadcast by VRT on Radio 2 and is using content from the Vlaams Verkeerscentrum.[7] Coverage of content and transmissions is limited to the Flanders region.

In the southern part of Belgium, Wallonia, the service CLASS.21 is broadcast by RTBF on Classic 21. The service is from the Centre PEREX of the Ministère de l’Équipement et des Transports (MET) in collaboration with TMC4U. Both coverage of transmissions and content is limited to Wallonia.

A last TMC service is 4FMTMC provided by Vialis, which is also operating TMC services in the Netherlands. It is broadcast by 4FM in Flanders, containing both the content from the Vlaams Verkeerscentrum and PEREX and so covers Belgium in total. In future they plan to add information on speed cameras.

Tritel creates the location tables by order of the regional communities. Since December 2004 the broadcast messages are according to location table version 1.4b, in which N-roads are added. The latest, currently used, version is 2.3 (from July 2008).

Czech Republic

In the Czech Republic, 3 services are available. 2 of them (TIC PRAGUE, TELEASIST) are in operation from January 2006 and one (JSDI) from 2008. All services are free to air.

A first service, called DIC PRAHA, is available in Prague. It is broadcast on Český Rozhlas – Regina (92.6 MHz). The service provider is TSK-Praha (Communication Technical Administration). The content comes from the traffic centre in Prague (TIC Prague) and consists of closures and restrictions and levels of service in Prague.

A second service, TELEASIST provided by Teleasist together with Global Assistance is available countrywide, however is not as detailed as TIC Prague in specific areas. It is being broadcasted by CRo1 Radiožurnál.

Last service, called JSDI, is provided by Czech Road Motorway Directorate (ŘSD ČR) and is broadcasted countrywide on ČRo3 Vltava. The content consists of closures and road restrictions and winter maintenance from all over the country, accident information from rescue services and detailed content from TIC Prague.

TMC developments are coordinated by CEDA. They are responsible for the location table (current version is 3.0, containing more than 16 000 records).

Denmark

The free TMC service DK-TMC in Denmark is operated by Vejdirektoratet or DRD (Danish Road Directorate). It is broadcast on DR P1, P2, P3 and P4.

DRD is also responsible for the location tables. The current version used is 9.0. It contains around 2.450 location codes.

Finland

The commercial service in Finland is provided by Destia. The service covers biggest cities and roads 1-999. These areas cover the whole country. TMC messages are broadcast nationally on YLE Radio Suomi channel. Destia uses several information sources to validate traffic data including induction loops, traffic cameras, radio stations, road users and several other partnership companies. The service is encrypted, based on the encryption specifications made by the TMC Forum.

The location table is provided by FINNRA, the Finnish Road Administration. The newest location table is version number 1.42 and it is used by Destia’s TMC service. This version of the table contains around 8.100 problem locations.

France

Both a free public service and a commercial service are available in France.

The free service is provided by the motorway operators and provides information on their toll-roads. The toll-road operators are AREA, ASF, ATMB, Cofiroute, ESCOTA, SANEF, SAPN, SAPRR, SFTRF and SMTPC. The TMC data is on the 107.7 traffic channel so it can only be received along the motorways.

The commercial service V-Trafic is provided by Mediamobile. It is a partnership between TDF, Renault, Trafficmaster and Cofiroute. The service, which replaces the previous Visionaute service, is transmitted on the frequencies of France Inter and can be received nationally. It includes the information from the motorways but also on Paris congestion. The service was first open but it is now a pay-service, but it is not encrypted: by using a different location table number they can restrict the use. This method is TMC Forum ‘s Interim encryption method. They have about 60000 customers.

Next to that a service from ViaMichelin and Carte Blanche is provided, transmitted by the Towercast network (NRJ group). In September 2005 PSA Peugeot Citroën signed a partnership with ViaMichelin for the use of this info in their navigation systems.

Location tables are released by the government agency SETRA and includes about 20000 locations. Since version 0.4 it includes both inside Paris and outside Paris. The latest certified version is 8.0 for France (the last release contained around 13.500 problem locations) and 0.0 for Andorra (containing 62 problem locations).

Germany

In Germany both a public and a commercial service are available. The public service is an open, free service that can be received by the public radio stations.

The other service TMCpro is a pay service provided by Navteq Services GmbH owned by Navteq. The service was developed and formerly provided by T-Systems Traffic GmbH a subsidiary of T-Systems which was bought by Navteq in January 2009. The service went live at the beginning of 2005 across Germany. The content is provided by ddg Gesellschaft für Verkehrsdaten mbh, a wholly owned subsidiary of T-Systems Traffic GmbH. It is an encrypted service, based on the conditional access specifications made by the TMC Forum.

BASt, the German Federal Highway Research Institute, is releasing location tables. In version 5.1 all major access roads leading to the football arenas which were used in the World Championship in 2006 were added. The current version is 8.0, which contains around 40.100 location codes.

Location tables for Germany have been updated, the new version (version 9) will be implemented on the 13 Apr 2010 11 am.

Hungary

A public TMC-service is available from 1 August 2008 in Budapest and from 20 August 2008 in the rest of the country. The current version of the location table is 2.0.

Indonesia

In Oct 2009, GEWI Europe GmbH & Co. KG released the TISA certified Location Table version 1.0 for Indonesia.  

Iran

The service is currently unavalable, although the infrastructure is already in place; originaly for use by the Iranian National Broadcasting Company (IRIB). The service is expected to become publicly avaliable in 2010.

Israel

A commercial RDS-TMC service is offered by Decell Technologies  since February 2011. Decell provides national coverage broadcasted by several leading regional radio stations. The content distribution relies on Decell's TISA certified TMC location table number 36. Decell provides real-time flow and incident traffic data on RDS-TMC to all leading navigation companies.

Italy

A public RDS-TMC service free of charge is available in Italy from 1 July 1998 by RAI. CCISS (National Traffic Information Centre) is providing the service. It is broadcasted on Rai Radio 1 FM; this service covers Italy.

Another TMC service is provided by the commercial radio station RTL 102.5 in cooperation with InfoBlu. This service is available as Premium Service so you have to use a software enabled receiver and covers 90% of the population of Italy, and is still increasing.[8]

The Italian location table, provided by RAI-CCISS, is in its version 2.1 with around 12.500 codes.

Netherlands

The service provider TMC4U is delivering a TMC service in the Netherlands. Currently it is free, but they plan a pay-service including local information. TMC4U is a collaboration between Siemens and ANWB. The transmissions are on the radio channels of SkyRadio, Radio Veronica, Radio 1 and Radio 3.

A second TMC service ViaTMC is provided by Vialis. They are transmitting on the FM channels of Q-music (previously Radio Noordzee), BNR Nieuwsradio and Radio 538. Information of traffic jams, road works and so on is the same on both channels, but they add information on speed traps to it independent of each other.

Radio 2 is also sending out TMC-messages, working with data from Vialis.

Location tables come from AVV Transport Research Centre and are supplied by TIC Nederland. The current version is 6.1 which has additions for parking areas / parking lots compared to the ‘old’ 2003.a version.

New Zealand

The New Zealand Automobile Association broadcasts traffic alerts via FM broadcast radio in and around Greater Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.[9]

Norway

As of 2009, NRK has an open TMC service in a testing phase.[9] The open service is transmitted using the P1-frequency, and information on coverage and nearest transmitter can be found on.[10] NRK broadcasts information on roadworks, planned closures and winter-closed mountain passes. Updates on accidents and other unforeseen information are currently done Mon-Fri 05.30-22.00, Sat 09.30-17.00 and Sun 13.00-22.00.

The private radio station P4 is working with Destia Traffic[11] to provide TMC info in Norway. This service is encrypted but free (according to Destia Traffic) for all private users, and some GPS manufacturers, such as TomTom, Garmin, mio and Navigon provide Destia Traffic’ service for free.[12]

In 2003 there was an experiment with distributing TMC-messages in a limited area (Østfold, Akershus and Oslo). A private operator might start a commercial service during 2008. In June Destia starts to broadcast the TMC service in Norway.

Statens vegvesen, the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA), is releasing location tables. The current version is V3.1[13]

Poland

From 1 May 2010, commercial TMC service is available in Poland, on private radio station RMF FM. The service is provided by Destia Traffic and it’s currently available for Garmin and Navigon users.

Singapore

In Jun 2006, GEWI Europe GmbH & Co. KG released the first TISA certified TMC Location Table for Singapore and started a broadcast service which is operated by its branch company, GEWI Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. GEWI's traffic services are available on several models of Nokia smartphones, PAPAGO! and Garmin GPS navigation devices.

In Nov 2010, the Land Transport Authority announced^[15] the release of the Location Table for Singapore. Quantum Inventions offers a traffic data service based on this location table and includes traffic incidents information, traffic speeds, parking availability, weather, road closures, etc. Various brands of GPS systems using the Galactio software provide these dynamic data in the navigation system.

Slovenia

In June 2009 Slovenian national radio has started to broadcast traffic data every 15 minutes. Available for Monolit and Garmin users. Plans are in place to also affer the service to Navteq users.

Spain

A TMC service is available in Spain on RNE 3. It is provided by

* SCT as the operator of traffic management in Catalonia Autonomous Community

* DT in the Basque Country Autonomous Community

* DGT (Traffic General Directorate) as the operator for the rest of the country’s traffic management.

The road network coverage is the motorways, national roads and first level roads that belong to the Autonomous Communities. Next to that, RACC[14] is working on urban TMC services, starting with Seville and Barcelona. This will broadcast on RNE 2.

Location tables are coming from DGT, Dirección General de Tráfico. The current version is 2.1 and contains about 7.750 problem locations.

Sweden

A free service is available in Sweden. Swedish Transport Administration, or Trafikverket, is responsible for the free service and for making the location tables. Nowadays version 2.2.2009 is in use for broadcasting RDS-TMC messages, which contains about 22587 location Codes and 923 Area, 4191 road/ segment/ street and 17473 points. New versions are always backward compatible.

Regarding the transmission, Sweden is divided into 8 broadcasting zones in order not to transmit traffic information that is not useful at that location. They cover the European, national and major county highways and contain information about traffic accidents, road works and road weather. The service is broadcast on Sveriges Radio P3 radio station and covers 98 percent of Sweden. 98 percent is multi-messages in the air in Sweden.

Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) has an information page for Trafikverket RDS-TMC in Swedish.

Switzerland

A TMC service is available in Switzerland. The broadcaster is SRG SSR idée suisse or Swiss Broadcasting Corporation who transmits TMC on FM chain 1 (general, services) and FM chain 3 (pop/rock) all over Switzerland.

* In German speaking areas: DRS 1 (G) / DRS 3 (G) / La 1ère (F) / Rete Uno (I) partly

* In French speaking areas: La 1ère (F) / Couleur 3 (F) / DRS 1 (G) / Rete Uno (I) partly

* In Italian speaking areas: Rete Uno (I) / Rete Tre (I) / DRS 1 (G) / La 1ère (F)

It is Viasuisse, a daughter company of it, that operates the service.

Location codes are the responsibility of the Swiss Federal Roads Authority FEDRO but B+S Ingenieur (Bundesamt fuer Strassen) makes the location tables. Version 5.5 is the latest version, containing around 10.000 codes, and is backwards compatible.

Taiwan

The Taiwanese police radio station and Ministry of Transportation and Communication (MOTC) both broadcast RDS-TMC traffic data. It is currently available for TomTom, Garmin, Panasonic, PaPaGo and Mio devices.

United Kingdom

The private company iTIS Holdings provides a commercial TMC service iTMC in the United Kingdom. It is broadcast nationally on Classic FM and broadcast is supplemented by use of other commercial radio stations. ITIS provides traffic data on RDS-TMC to all the major automotive companies (BMW, Mercedes, Toyota, Ford , Jaguar/Landrover and others). The price of the service is included in the price of the car or of the navigation system.

This system uses Floating Vehicle Data, positional information from over 160,000 vehicles fitted with fleet management systems, this data provides the information about traffic speed and congestion throughout the UK road network. The data is complemented by journalistic or “Incident” data provided by Trafficlink. Trafficlink is owned by ITIS and provides live traffic and travel bulletins to BBC National and Local Radio and also to over 95% of the UK commercial radio stations. The incident data included in to the TMC data includes road works, accidents and closures.

RAC Live operated by RAC Trafficmaster Telematics (RTT) a 50-50 joint venture between RAC Motoring Services and Trafficmaster also operates a national service. It uses the local and regional radio broadcaster Global Radio to ensure reception across mainland Britain. This system uses road-side infrastructure to measures a vehicle’s travel time between sensors placed a few miles apart, and uses number plate recognition technology.

Both providers are responsible for their own location tables. The current location table version of ITIS is 5.1. The current location table version of Trafficmaster is 3.1.

Within the United Kingdom TMC services are only offered as pay services. As such they are currently always carried by commercial radio stations rather than by the BBC, a public service broadcaster. The BBC is required by its charter to be free from both political and commercial influence and is therefore unable to carry a pay service unavailable to all.

United States and Canada

In the United States of America, XM Satellite Radio started transmitting TMC messages all over the US, as has Sirius Satellite Radio. NAVTEQ provides traffic data to both XM and Sirius Satellite Radio. NAVTEQ Traffic delivers traffic information and related advertising via RDS and HD signals to navigation devices nationwide. NAVTEQ also provides high quality traffic sourced from sensors, probes and other technologies in 10+ countries as of Dec 2009. INRIX, Inc. fuses TMC data with real-time flow information from its crowd-sourced network of floating cars and mobile devices with information from other public and private sources to deliver real-time and predictive traffic information.

Clear Channel Communications and Tele Atlas have a TMC service called Total Traffic Network (TTN), using FM RDS in 77 US cities and three Canadian metropolitan areas.[15] These services are both subscription, and were initially available to many in-car navigation units via an expansion module purchased separately.

The TomTom RDS-TMC Traffic Receiver acquires information through an FM radio signal broadcast by Clear Channel’s regional providers. By connecting a TomTom GO device to the RDS-TMC Traffic Receiver, users automatically receive traffic information via the TMC connection. Once a trip is planned, traffic alerts are displayed in the traffic bar on the right hand side of the screen. When users tap the traffic bar, they receive further information, such as accident or traffic delays. The RDS-TMC Traffic Receiver is compatible with the TomTom GO 920, TomTom GO 720, TomTom ONE XL and TomTom ONE 3rd EDITION. It provides integration of RDS-TMC Traffic information with the user interface of the TomTom GO and ONE products.

By now, in addition these after-market services, about six major motor manufacturers are offering RDS-TMC as standard in their U.S. vehicles, including Volvo and BMW.

Ibiquity HD Radio is advertising a TMC service based on the existing RDS-TMC standard. Utilizing the established standard for RDS/TMC, the Traffic Message Channel (TMC) is a data application for broadcasting real-time traffic information. Data messages will be received and decoded by a TMC-based receiver in conjunction with HD Radio devices and navigation systems. Traffic services are delivered to the driver in a vehicle in a variety of ways: the most common of these being a TMC-enabled navigation system.

[edit] Other planned services

It is also planned to start in Portugal, however no further information is available on this at present. In Romania and Luxembourg no service is currently planned. In Dubai the location table version 1.2 has been certified. In Turkey and Ireland[16] it is planned but not in usage yet.

In China they are currently investigating on which technology their traffic information system will be based. The main choice is between the Japanese system VICS and the European TMC. A TMC Location table version 1.0 has been certified already.

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