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Traffic Information in Germany

How to deal with Traffic Information national Organisations:

Dr. Fritz BolteBundesanstalt fuer Strassenwesen (bast)

(Federal Highway Research Institute)

Bergisch Gladbach/Germany

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Berne, 06 July 2006

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Traffic Information in Germany Development History Actors involved Traffic Information in its Context Public and Commercial Traffic Information Public Authorities and their mandate Commercial Service Providers and their mandate Traffic Information as Traffic Management Tool European Aspects

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Traffic Information in its Context “Information Society”

Print Media, Radio, TV, World-wide satellite TV and Radio Telephones, Mobile Phones Internet Public and Commercial Services

Traffic Information as a specific content Free access to Traffic information as

common target

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Back to the roots ... Traditional operation since

the early 1960s Police Broadcasters Road Authorities

RDS-TMC Tests in the early 1990s Police Road Authorities Broadcasters Receiver Industry Support from Consultancies

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... and stepwise forwards

Transition to RDS-TMC operational systems, MoU, Commitment mainly Police, Road Authorities,

Broadcasters, Receiver Industry, Automobile clubs

Commercial Service providers followed when “critical mass” was achieved and a business case was seen

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Public and Commercial Traffic Information

Competition

or Co-existence?

or even Co-operation?

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"Public authorities"

In this context, public authorities and public broadcasters are considered.

Their mandates are different, however, as for traffic information, their interests go into the same direction: to distribute relevant and uptodate traffic

messages to as many traffic participants as possible

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Mandates of Public Authorities

Transport Policy Objectives such as Provision of efficient Transport Capacity Accessibility of Cities and Regions Improvement of Traffic Safety Protection of Environment and Resources Transport Economy ...

Superior Objective: Enabling Mobility of People and Goods

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Public Broadcasters Mandate

Distribution of independent and correct information to their listeners

Binding their listeners by means of highly appreciated programs (news, traffic messages, entertainment)

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Tools of Road Authorities completion and widening of roads and networks regulation of network use dynamic traffic management variable direction signs systems variable message signs temporary use of hard shoulders, ramp metering dynamic lane allocation and traffic information

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Limited roadside implementations of dynamic regulations

(only) traffic and accident hot spots equipped

limited information contents (HMI)

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Traffic Information as Complement for Traffic Management

Explaining roadside regulations

Available everywhere

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Synergy ...

... of Roadside Regulations ...

... and In-Vehicle Information

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Improving Driver AcceptanceEffectiveness of traffic management measures

depends on driver acceptance:

"Vienna Convention": "Driver is in the loop" no automatic intervention into vehicle actions

from outside

Good and complementing traffic information as support for traffic management measures

Hundred percent enforcement as alternative?

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Complement to traffic regulations

Traffic information as complement to road regulations and dynamic signing improvement of acceptance by supporting traffic

information Advantage of traffic information:

High flexibility Availability and Accessibility of information

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Structural Scheme of RDS-TMC Services

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Basis for Co-operation / Networking

Win-win Situation for all Actors (no cashflow between Actors) Operation on agreed Rules of Co-operation Mutual Respect of other actors interests

and responsibility Mutual confidence based on experience “Round Table” to solve occurring

problems and for further developments

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Technical and operational Consequences

automatic generation of traffic messages on the bases of traffic detectors

consistency of dynamic road signing and traffic information

synergies

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Costs

RA: Traffic Monitoring, TCC, .... Police: Staff, transmission, Info Centre ... Broadcasters: Editorial Staff,

Broadcasting costs ...... User Associations: Operation of User

Reports, Editorial Staff, GSM airtime

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Commercial Service Providers and their Mandate

Commercial Service Providers need financial success of their investments through collection of revenues from their Clients.

Satisfaction of clients is a precondition Traffic Safety is only a secondary target.

= Clear and legal Business objectives

Example: Alerting their clients in case of police speed enforcement actions: Is this supporting traffic safety?

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European Aspects European challenge to halve fatalities till 2010 Real Time Traffic Information as high priority safety

relevant tool Safety relevance of free access services Minimum free accessible messages in all countries Extension of RDS-TMC services in all EU countries Improvement of existing services to reach targeted

quality standards

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RTTI: Next Steps From the answers to the letter to the national ministries an actual survey is

to be expected of the strategies of the Member States.

The new member states will install rather rapidly RTTI services.

Standardisation of TPEG should soon be achieved allowing trials and evaluations with RTTI services in 2006.

Agreements with as many Urban Traffic Centres as possible should be made so that traffic information which is readily available there may be used for RTTI-services.

To avoid expensive installation of new sensors for traffic data collection, it has been proposed to use the location information of mobile phones to measure traffic density and average speed. First installations for RTTI services may be realised in the near future, eventually. This may be most valuable in towns, suburban areas and on roads without sensors to monitor the actual traffic flow.

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Further important actors in the information train

road users and their clubs as sources and destination of information

jam busters organised by road user clubs and broadcasters

Result: Networked information chains

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Commercial services as add-on to public information services

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Detecting market niches to develop new services and to adopt them to user needs

needs of fleet operators needs of logistics companies needs of individual users needs of specific user groups needs of business clients (hotels, commercial

companies, etc.)

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Specific technologies and opportunities for commercial service providers

Bi-directional communication (GPRS) Central route calculation Linking additional user services to traffic

information Public services are limited to general traffic

information items

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European aspects Real time traffic information (RTTI) as tool to improve traffic

safety RTTI requirements concerning quality, availability,

accessibility and accuracy of traffic information Economic considerations

Data pooling Access to new data collection technologies, such as

Floating car data, Floating Phone data European coverage: Europe-wide access to traffic

information free-of-charge Obstacles to be removed, efforts needed

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Common Task

Mobility Management

AutomobileIndustry

Police

Telematic-Industry End User

Broadcasters

Commercial Info-

Services

Road Auth.

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New Co-operation ModelsTomorrow?

PublicFCD,FPD,

Sensoren

AdAC...

DataPool

HistoricData

TrafficControl Level

VMS, DRG

VWFRDS-TMC

CommercialService Provider

IndividualisedInformation

Public

PPP

Private

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ENDThank you for your

attention

Any questions?