TPEG – new targets, actors and deployment scenarios

October 16, 2015

 

TISA organised a Special Interest Session in the Industry Insight Stream of the congress on 7 October with the title “TPEG – new targets, actors and deployment scenarios”.

The format of this session took a business-oriented approach, providing insights into services currently operated or being rolled out by service providers and road operators. Several speakers took the opportunity to give an outlook on future services and business opportunities, or discussed requirements for technologies currently under development, such as V2X systems.

Among the panellists were Tony Belkin (HERE), Jacques Naves (MICHELIN), Olaf Meng (Garmin), Manfred Harrer (ASFINAG), Philippe Goudal (Mediamobile), Scott Sedlik (INRIX), Gert Siegle (on behalf of the ECODyNIS project). The session was moderated by Matthias Unbehaun (TISA Executive Director).

TPEG, enabling new applications and services

The TISA session attracted about thirty participants who could learn that as of today, there are several million TPEG-enabled devices on the market. TPEG services, for example incident information, allow road operations to quickly react and disseminate information in case of road hazards.

The R&D project ECODyNIS – “Ecological Electro-Mobility and Effective CO2-Reduction by Dynamical Navigation in Towns”- investigated the potential to reduce energy consumption by broadcasting traffic information for travellers to avoid traffic jams, blocked roads or roads in poor conditions.

Standardisation was by most panellists considered to be a ‘must’ for traffic information services to fully benefit from the scaling effects across services and devices, although it was acknowledged that current standardisation processes are sometimes too slow considering the speed of technological progress.

From a broader perspective, discussions also revolved around the potential of TPEG to facilitate new location-based businesses and new modes of travelling, such as public transport or carpooling. TPEG is flexible enough to accommodate these new types of information. Related discussions are currently ongoing among TISA members.