TISA Latest News

German Automotive Workshop at AMICOM

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

On 4 June 2012, WorldDMB and the German Project Office will jointly host a workshop on German automotive in Leipzig. The workshop aims to provide colleagues of the auto industry and the aftermarket with information on the development of digital radio in Germany, Europe and globally.

The focus of the event will be to show how the German market has developed new services on-air, promotion to the market, receiver sales, service coverage roadmap of digital radio broadcasters, improved traffic and travel information using the new TPEG system and the potential for revenue for OEM and aftermarket product manufacturers that support DAB/DAB+.

The event will be held during AMI and AMICOM, an automotive event aimed at OEM and the aftermarket products industry. Participants include manufacturers, importers & exporters of vehicle accessories, special equipment, tuning, performance systems, design refinement.

You can view the programme here. For more information and to register for the event, send an email to Caroline Seville.

Please note that deadline for registration is 28 May 2012.

TISA welcomes new Member

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

TISA is pleased to welcome HYUNDAI MNSOFT Inc. as new Member.

MNSOFT is a subsidiary of HYUNDAI MOTORS in Korea and, with 265 employees, is a major software company in Korean vehicle navigation industry including after-market and OEM for Hyundai-Kia Motors. MNSOFT is present in several countries including Canada, USA, China, Australia, India, Thailand and Malaysia.

Currently MNSOFT is developing next-generation OEM navigation for global market.

For more information, please visit MNSOFT website.

New Joint-Chairman of the TISA Technical and Standardisation Committee appointed

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

On 20 March 2012, TISA Steering Board announced the appointment of Dave Francis (INRIX) as Joint-Chairman of the Technical and Standardisation Committee. He succeeds Heinz-Werner Pfeiffer (Bosch) who stepped down as Chairman last December.

Dave Francis will be chairing the Technical and Standardisation Committee together with Teun Hendriks (ClearChannel). Dave has been very active within TISA for several years, and he is an expert on TMC and TPEG standards as well as on broadcast and connected services.

TISA wishes to thank Heinz-Werner for his dedication to TISA as well as Dave for ensuring continuity in the Chairmanship of the Committee.

BEST consortium presents broadcaster’s vision on future traffic and travel information services

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

During its first workshop on 14 March at the Institut für Rundfunktechnik in Munich, the BEST consortium (Broadcasters’ European Solution for Travel information) presented its plans and activities to implement a common public broadcast vision for future traffic and travel information (TTI) services on an international level. Intensive discussions with over 80 representatives of the whole service delivery chain addressed current and future challenges. The public broadcasters involved strive for open, license-free and cooperative solutions and plan to intensify the essential close collaboration with data providers as well as with car- and end-user device manufacturers to enable the future delivery of high-quality services. The BEST founders, originating from the German speaking countries, also announced to welcome additional members, specifically targeting the public broadcasters in Europe, to realise this common vision.

The quality of TTI services is a central theme for BEST. Current TMC-based navigation devices (TMC: Traffic Message Channel) too often present the editorially prepared traffic announcements in an erroneous way. Therefore a key activity is the improvement of the quality of these services. Furthermore, a quality initiative on international level, with support from BEST, shall ensure end-to-end information quality for future TTI services based on TPEG (TPEG: Transport Protocol Experts Group).

During the workshop many speakers emphasised the progress that TPEG specifications have made towards their introduction in the market. TPEG applications are part of a live service in the current digital radio pilot project by Bayerischer Rundfunk in Bavaria, in which traffic events, traffic flow data as well as parking information are being transmitted. Other broadcasters such as Westdeutscher Rundfunk conduct TPEG test transmissions as well.
Technical solutions are readily available and are successfully deployed.

For consumers, TPEG provides maximum flexibility in delivering a wider variety of information compared to current TMC-based services. This new format can give motorists more detailed intelligence about what is happening on the road ahead, with details of traffic speeds, the length of queues and the impact of a delay on overall travel time. TPEG offers pinpoint accuracy, being able to locate events precisely. Additionally, TPEG is designed to
provide many more types of information to the end user including parking information, public transport information, fuel prices and more. This way, future services can truly become multimodal.

The end-user will also benefit from TPEG’s language independency and its possibility to support multiple presentation formats e.g. as text or as presentation on a map in a navigation device. Against the background of digital radio broadcast which is being rolled out in European
countries, insights were shared between broadcasters and other service providers on the challenges to smoothly realise the migration of traffic- and travel services in due time. To the way forward Thomas Kusche, ARD coordinator for Traffic Telematic activities and BEST chairman, stated: “We cannot do this by ourselves, cooperation and a continuous dialogue with all parties involved is essential. We invite all relevant market players to join us in the realisation of this vision. The workshop will give an additional impetus for the implementation of TPEG in the market”.

Download the full Press Release here.

Presentation on TISA at the 4th ETSI TC ITS Workshop in Doha now available

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The presentation “TISA - A facilitator for Traffic Management and Safety & Mobility Information” given by Dr-Ing. K. Belhoula, on behalf of Thomas Kuhn (Continental Automotive GmbH), at the 4th ETSI TC ITS Workshop in Doha in February 2012 is freely available here.

For more information about the workshop, visit ETSI website.

To view the workshop conclusions, click here.

A TISA first... - a TPEG first... - two Members first!

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Toyota UK have recently shown off two cars, about to enter the retail market, fitted with TPEG based Navi systems using the INRIX UK TPEG service delivered by Digital Radio (DAB).

As far as we know this is an in-vehicle first: to install and sell to retail customers TPEG based Navigation system capability, to be used with on-air TPEG services and facilitated by several other TISA Members working behind the scenes to make all this possible.

Here we see some displays – photos taken by TISA Members, Mark Sutcliffe from Arqiva and Dave Francis from INRIX - showing the Navi system screen renderings.

	Landcruiser display – showing there is Traffic info (TPEG-TEC) and Traffic prediction (TPEG-TFP) is possible. It is also possible to receive Parking information (TPEG-PKI), but it is not received at the current time/location.
	Prius display – showing road events delivered by TPEG-TEC – rendered by icon display. TEC is used for Live incidents and current Congestion.
	Landcruiser display - the system is capable of displaying prediction data, by rendering road-aligned colour codes; although this is not currently part of the UK live service.

For more information, contact Amaury Cornelis.

TISA Members Fraunhofer First and Frontier Silicon to present TPEG services at CeBIT 2012

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

On 6 to 10 March, TISA Member Fraunhoffer First will present its TPEG components at CeBIT 2012 in Hannover (Hall 11, Booth B54). Among other TPEG Products, Fraunhoffer First is displaying components developed with TISA Member Frontier Silicon aiming to facilitate the reception of TPEG services broadcasted over DAB.

A pre-arranged appointment is possible by sending an e-mail to christiane.peters@first.fraunhofer.de.

For more information, visit Fraunhofer First website.

For more information about CeBIT 2012, visit the event website.

IRT & BEST Workshop "From TMC to TPEG" - DEADLINE EXTENDED

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

TISA Member IRT (Institut für Rundfunktechnik) and the BEST Consortium (Broadcasters European Solution for Travel Information) are organising an international workshop

"From TMC to TPEG - cooperative migration of broadcast-based travel information services”

Date: 7 March 2012 – 10:00 to 16:30

Venue: IRT, Munich, Germany

The detailed programme is available here

Registration is now open

http://www.irt.de/anmeldung/BEST-WS_03.2012

STA has announced major updates of their TMC service

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100

STA has announced a major upgrade of their TMC service in Sweden that is now being fed by DATEX2 node. TMC-events are now broadcasted with precise location on the TERN+ road network. Norway and Denmark are currently working on a similar update using precise location. Additionally, SRA is now working on a 2011-update of their Swedish Location Table that should submitted to TISA for certification in June 2011. This new Table (ver. 2.4.) will be covering 22000 points of the Swedish road network. The current Swedish Location Table from SRA is available free of charge upon request, on the SRA website www.trafikverket.se/tmc

TPEG-Workshop “Getting in touch with TPEG” 15 March 2012

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

In cooperation with TISA, Bayerische Medien Technik (bmt) will organize a workshop "Getting in touch with TPEG" on 15 March 2012.

More information about program and registation is available on the bmt website