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Two separate questionnaires were prepared. One covering the operational issues and planned for Programme Directors to complete and the other planned for Technical Directors to complete.
Please use separate sheets to answer questions requiring more detail than allowed on these question sheets and reference the question numbers
1.1 Existing Traffic and Travel Information:
| No | Question | Answer | Explanation/Notes |
| 1 | Do you provide spoken Traffic and Travel Information, now? | No/Yes | |
| 2 | What programme services carry Traffic and Travel Information? | Explain how many services carry TTI and indicate if these are national, regional, sub regional or local. | |
| 3 | Do you consider that now (or soon) you have too much Traffic and Travel Information in your audio programmes? | No/Yes | An explanation of your answer would be helpful! |
1.2 Statisitics:
| No | Question | Answer | Explanation/Notes |
| 4 | How many TTI reports are made, daily, for each region? | If possible, indicate numbers of separate messages too | |
| 5 | How many TTI reports are made, daily, for the whole country? | If possible, indicate numbers of separate messages too |
1.3 Information origins:
| No | Question | Answer | Explanations/Notes |
| 6 | What existing traffic information providers do you obtain information from? | eg police, automobile club. | |
| 7 | Do you make use of direct public reports via phone? With or without verification? | No/Yes | An explanation of verification policy would be useful. |
| 8 | Do you live broadcast direct public reports via phone? | Is this an exceptional or normal activity? |
1.4 RDS-TMC Message management and editorial control:
| No | Question | Answer | Explanations/Notes |
| 9 | Do you have a traffic studio where operations are centred? | No / Yes | |
| 10 | Are you aware of other similar studios? What communication is there between them? | eg in your company or another broadcaster. | |
| 11 | What message management system is planned? | Broadcasters traffic centre, manned availability hours. | |
| 12 | Will TMC messages from a TIC be routed directly (via an RDS Server) to your transmitters? | No / Yes | TIC = Traffic Information Centre. |
| 13 | If yes, will there be the option for editorial control on a message-by- message basis? | If necessary? |
1.5 Alternative outlets:
| No | Question | Answer | Explanations/Notes |
| 14 | Do you provide other types of Traffic and Travel Information? | eg teletext, in-vision, WWW. |
2. General questions on RDS-TMC
Please use separate sheets to answer questions requiring more detail than allowed on these question sheets and reference the question numbers
| No | Question | Answer | Explanations/Notes |
| 17 | What RDS-TMC plans do you have? | eg past, present, future - give acronyms if generally known, such as DRIVE, MELYSSA etc | |
| 18 | What timescales apply to these plans? | ||
| 19 | Do you have any third party agreements associated with RDS-TMC? | eg information supply contracts with automobile club | |
| 20 | Who are your 3 most important contacts in the RDS-TMC context? | [1] [2] [3] |
please give name, organisation and fax number |
| 21 | Assuming that RDS-TMC is a public service, what revenue costs are expected to finance its operation? | Please give per annum information | |
| 22 | What obstacles do you see to RDS-TMC? | eg institutional, legal, technical, logistic. | |
| 23 | Do you have any other observations? |
2.5.3.2 Survey of Broadcasters providing FM coverage of the Trans European Road Network - Technical aspects of RDS-TMC
Please use separate sheets to answer questions requiring more detail than allowed on these question sheets and reference the question numbers
1.1 RDS implementation:
| No | Question | Answer | Explanations / Notes |
| 1 | Have you implemented RDS? | No / Yes | |
| 2 | If no, when will RDS be available? | Month and year: eg 09/97. |
1.2 RDS Static/Dynamic:
| No | Question | Answer | Explanations / Notes |
| 3 | Is your RDS dynamic? | No / Yes | |
| 4 | If not dynamic, when do you want dynamic for your purposes? | Month and year: eg 09/97.Ie programme purposes |
1.3 RDS Features:
| No | Question | Answer | Explanation / Notes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | What RDS features are transmitted? |
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Tick, if implemented, see Acronym descriptions which are appended
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1.4 Signal Distribution:
| No | Question | Answer | Explanations / Notes |
| 6 | What audio distribution network is used from studios to transmitters? | eg microwave, terrestrial, satellite. | |
| 7 | What data distribution network is used from studios to transmitters? | eg microwave, terrestrial, satellite |
1.5 RDS Encoders / Protocols:
| No | Question | Answer | Explanations / Notes |
| 8 | What RDS encoders are used? | eg Aztec, Ericsson, R&S, Telefunken. | |
| 9 | What encoder communications protocol is used? | eg EBU SPB 490 (UECP), manufacturer specific. |
1.6 FM / RDS Coverage:
| No | Question | Answer | Explanations / Notes |
| 10 | Do you have Band II FM coverage for the roads shown in the attached map of your country? | No / Yes | Attached maps show main Trans European Road Network roads in Red. |
| 11 | If no, do you have partial coverage? | Please mark coverage on attached map and return. | |
| 12 | How many transmitter sites are involved? | Site names, ERP and programme services. If possible please supply service coverage maps. | |
| 13 | What hours per day? | Overnight depowered? | |
| 14 | What service availability? | eg 96% of expected service in question above. |
1.7 Regulatory issues:
| No | Question | Answer | Explanations / Notes |
| 15 | What radio regulatory issues affect your development of RDS? | eg do you need a licence to use RDS? |
1.8 RDS ownership:
| No | Question | Answer | Explanations / Notes |
| 16 | Who "owns" the 57kHz sub-carrier? | eg broadcaster or transmission operator. |
2. General questions on RDS-TMC
Please use separate sheets to answer questions requiring more detail than allowed on these question sheets and reference the question numbers
| No | Question | Answer | Explanations / Notes |
| 17 | What RDS-TMC plans do you have? | eg past, present, future - give acronyms if generally known, such as DRIVE, MELYSSA etc | |
| 18 | What timescales apply to these plans? | ||
| 19 | Do you have any third party agreements associated with RDS-TMC? | eg information supply contracts with automobile club | |
| 20 | Who are your 3 most important contacts in the RDS-TMC context? | [1] [2] [3] |
please give name, organisation and fax number |
| 21 | Assuming that RDS-TMC is a public service, what revenue costs are expected to finance its operation? | Please give per annum information | |
| 22 | What obstacles do you see to RDS-TMC? | eg institutional, legal, technical, logistic. | |
| 23 | Do you have any other observations? |
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Issue date January 03, 2000
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