Sorin DUMITRESCU, PhD. Student Dipl.

Eng

Senior Communications Expert

Electronic Solutions Ltd, Bucharest, Romania
sorin.dumitrescu@elsol.ro

Dorin DUMITRESCU, PhD. Eng.

Director-General ITS Romania

dorin.dumitrescu@its-romania.ro

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EasyWay 2008

Test Platform for Traffic

and Travel Information
Services in Romania

Agenda

Objective
Architecture
Applications
Institutional Agreements
Acknowlegements
Conclusions
Q&A
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TTI status in Romania

Objective

Applications:

Emergency RDS text messages

RDS-TMC System
RDS Traffic Announcement (TA)
VMSs controlled via RDS TDC
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To create a development and test platform

for TTI Systems that use the FM radio as
transmission medium.

TTI Status in Romania

Main sources of information for road traffic:

National Roads Administration
Road Police
Centre for Emergency Situations and Local
authorities (Municipalities)
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In Romania there is no centralized

information regarding the traffic and roads
infrastructure status. Different information
exists at different Infrastructure
Administrators or Authorities

Architecture

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Applications

The applications deployed and tested on this

infrastructure:

Future systems/applications proposed to be

developed and tested on this
infrastructure:
Traffic Information using voice messages
Traffic Announcement (RDS TA)
Traffic Information using VMS (Variable
Message Signs) controlled via RDS TDC
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Public Information in case of Emergency

Situations using RDS text messages
Traffic Information System using RDS-TMC

Public Information in case of Emergency

Situations using RDS text messages (1)

Objective: to inform the public of

Emergency Situations using text messages
send to the radio RDS displays.
Motorways and
National
Roads Control Centre
Road Police
Headquarters
Traffic Information
Centre
Emergency Situations
National Centre
Broadcasting areas (RDS
Encoders) are selectable
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The messages could be generated by:

Public Information in case of Emergency

Situations using RDS text messages (2)
Test conclusions:
From technical point of view the tests were succesful

Drawbacks:
The system does not have a major impact on users
because:

the information is broadcasted to a relatively large area, only

major emergency messages should be broadcasted
the messages are actually received by a small number of users

The user must be tuned to the selected FM station and only a small
percentage of users are actually aware of the message because
the message is only displayed on the RDS text display without any
audio notification

Problem with the operational arrangements.

All the parties involved agreed with the implementation and testing
of this system, but there no final protocol agreed yet between
them for operating the system.

Due to these aspects the system is not operational and

remained in the test phase
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The FM transmitters have a good coverage of the selected

areas

Traffic Information System using RDS-TMC (1)

RDS-TMC test system architecture

FM
Transmitter

RDS-TMC
RDS
Hardware & Software: Database
Server
Encoder
TMC Server + Client
Communication link
RDS encoder
Receivers: PC and Navigator Equipments

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Navigator with
RDS-TMC
support

Traffic Information System using RDS-TMC (2)

Test Locations

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TMC Location Table

Traffic Information System using RDS-TMC

(3)

Results:
Tests were successful

Future steps:
Continue the tests - reception tests
on different navigator equipments
Asses the better strategy for
choosing the TMC Locations for
Romania
Further Information dissemination
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Information dissemination: A demonstration of

capabilities and benefits of RDS-TMC was made to
Public Authorities

Institutional Agreements
Romanian authorities involved:

STS The Special Telecommunications Service

This is the Governmental telecommunication service
provider
SNR The Romanian National Broadcasting
Company The body in charge with broadcasting
network of the Romanian National News Stations.
Operators:
Motorways and National Roads Information
Centre
Road Police Headquarters Traffic Information
Centre
Emergency Situations National Centre
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MCTI - Ministry of Communications and Information

Technology the Beneficiary and promoter of the
project

Conclusions

The RDS-TMC System test was very useful for

promoting a future RDS-TMC implementation in
Romania and acknowledging the actual deployment
challenges.
The institutional agreements should be further
developed and improved for a future functional TTI
system.

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The test Infrastructure System is very useful in

evaluating the quality of the traffic information
provided by these three sources. Based on these
results the primary information gathering
procedures could be improved.

Acknowledgements

For the RDS TMC test platform we thank the

companies that gave us their support:
TMC Forum (now part of TISA)
GeoLogix AG.
GEWI Gmbh
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Romanian Authorities involved in the

project

Q&A

Sorin DUMITRESCU, PhD. Student Dipl. Eng

sorin.dumitrescu@elsol.ro
Dorin DUMITRESCU, PhD. Eng.
dorin.dumitrescu@its-romania.ro

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Thank You