TPEG - Achieving technical consensus and supporting standardisation of TPEG applications, targeted at rapid implementation of enhanced multi-modal information services and navigation systems for European travellers
Overview
Background & policy context:
A range of European Commission policies addressed already previously the provision of better traffic and travel information to the citizen, with the view to promote the growth of the Information Society. These policy objectives also demanded better and more efficient use and integration of the transportation systems and networks. Additionally, they aimed at improved quality of life for the citizen by better protection of the environment and ultimately also improved safety on the roads. The TPEG Project aimed to validate and build a consensus on the European scale and offered an open innovative TTI broadcast technology that supported well all those objectives.
Prior to the TPEG Project, there was already a pre-operational TPEG service from the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC that started in 1999, first on DAB and later also on the Internet. Through the TPEG Project’s activities TPEG signals were also to be put on air using the Digital Radio DAB infrastructures, already developed in Munich, Stuttgart and other parts of southwest Germany, as well as in Stockholm.
Objectives:
This project aimed to develop a new and open international standard for broadcasting language independent and multimodal traffic and travel information. It covers all modes such as road, bus, train, ferry, air traffic and may be distributed over a wide range of digital media (Digital radio/DAB, Internet, DVB, etc).
The major objective of this project was to test and validate the TPEG data stream on the DAB broadcast network and the Internet with specifically developed TPEG software decoders from the Consumer Electronics industry that would permit to test the wide range of TPEG functionalities specified in the European pre-standards of CEN TC 278.
Methodology:
The work will be organised in five Work packages:
WP 1: Project management:
Deliver a smoothly run beneficial informative project for the benefit of Europe and the IST programme;
WP 2: Definition of test environment:
Define the testing procedures by evaluating the whole information chain from message origination, processing, routing, broadcasting, reception and end-user presentation and define requirements for message encoding & decoding;
WP 3: Assessment and Verification:
Implement TPEG within existing broadcast infrastructures and realise the whole information chain from message origination, processing, routing, encoding to broadcasting on DAB and Internet and then test the functionalities for all possible options of the TPEG service. Reach industry consensus on TPEG decoder and produce platform independent TPEG decoder software module, implement geographical location referencing; and adapt all this then to receiver products. Carry out receiving tests in the validation areas;
WP 4: Guidelines and Standardisation:
Provide Guidelines ready for service implementers for the start of a fully operational TPEG Traffic and Travel Information services. Achieve early coherent standards that allow smooth integration with existing TTI services;
WP 5: Dissemination and Implementation:
Provide information on the plan for dissemination of the project results, describe the technology used and indicate the exploitation of project results expected by the project partners.
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