{{Short description|Transport Protocol Experts Group}}{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}}{{more citations needed|date=January 2015}}The Transport Protocol Experts Group (TPEG) is a data protocol suite for traffic and travel related information. TPEG can be carried over different transmission media (bearers), such as digital broadcast or cellular networks (wireless Internet). TPEG applications include, among others, information on road conditions, weather, fuel prices, parking or delays of public transport.

Overview

TPEG is a set of data protocols for carrying traffic & travel related information, comprising a range of different applications as well as basic building blocks to manage the transmission of the applications themselves, such as the handling of different messages belonging to a given application, grouping applications into data frames, or the updating and cancellation of messages. TPEG can be carried over different transmission media (bearers), such as digital broadcastWEB,weblink Traffic and Travel, 8 December 2015, World DAB Forum, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20151208171652weblink">weblink 8 December 2015, WEB,weblink All we hear is Radio Garmin: HERE is tuned into DAB, 26 March 2015, 7 December 2015, HERE 360, HERE, Delaney, Ian, WEB,weblink DAB+: Stauinfos per TPEG, 28 October 2013, 8 December 2015, Connect, WEKA MEDIA PUBLISHING GmbH, Stauch, Oliver, or cellular networks (wireless Internet). TPEG applications include, among others, information on road conditions, weather,WEB,weblink Clear Channel's Total Traffic Network and Toyota Team up to Bring Instant Traffic and Weather Updates to Drivers' Dashboards, Mahler, Shira, 7 January 2013, Business Wire, Berkeshire Hathaway, 10 March 2016, fuel prices, parking or delays of public transport.

History

The Transport Protocol Experts Group was started in 1997 by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).WEB,weblink TPEG â€“ Transport Protocol Experts Group, 2002, 7 December 2015, EBU Tech, European Broadcasting Union, Work carried on under the auspices of the EBU until 2007, when the group merged with another group working on the Traffic Message Channel (TMC) protocol, hosted by ERTICO â€“ ITS Europe and with the weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080725134440weblink">Mobile.Info project, where first prototypes of TPEG technology was tested under realistic driving conditions in various in-car navigation systems by a number of car manufacturers and their suppliers. Today, development work is carried out by the Traveller Information Services Association (TISA), who now also looks after the Alert-C standards used for implementing RDS-TMC services.In the early days of the Transport Protocol Experts Group, the plan was to develop applications that could extend traffic information services far beyond existing technologies, such as RDS-TMC or proprietary protocols. Further, TPEG should include multi-modal traveller information services, facilitating roaming of travellers between different modes of transportation, e.g. between individual transportation (using a car) and public transportation (bus, subway, trains, ...). It all started with a Road Traffic Message (RTM)WEB,weblink RTM (Road Traffic Message), 8 December 2015, Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20151208173057weblink">weblink 8 December 2015, application, which was soon complemented by a Public Transport Information (PTI) application, which both shared a common native TPEG Location Referencing method.TPEG RTM was intended as the "one size fits all" application. However, early implementations soon showed that the RTM structure was too broad to be used in navigation systems as a replacement for TMC. This first generation TPEG applications (TPEG generation 1, or TPEG1) also provided only a binary encoding, having in some cases a separate specification for the mapping to an XML encoding. Consequently, a revision of both the general information modelling style and the design approach was done, moving TPEG towards more clearly defined and separated applications for specific use cases and a top-down data modelling approach. This second generation TPEG applications (TPEG generation 2, or TPEG2) is now specified with an UML model, from which automatically both a binary encoding and XML encoding are derived. A TPEG2 application specification includes both the binary and XML encodings as integral part of the specification.With the first TPEG2 TEC application, a breakthrough was achieved in a sense that both service providersNEWS,weblink ARD-HÃ¶rfunk optimiert Verkehrsservice, 6 January 2005, 8 December 2015, ARD, and device manufacturers accepted TPEG2 as THE successor to TMCWEB,weblink Traffic and Travel Information from the point of view of the ADAC, 8 December 2015, World DAB Eureka, Mikolaschek, Peter, and deployments were rolled out in many countries.Both TPEG1 and TPEG2 are standardized with the International Organization for Standardization as ISO/TS 18234 (TPEG1) and ISO/TS 21219 (TPEG2). TPEG1 is now considered a legacy system and the implementation of new services based on TPEG1 is discouraged.

Technology

TPEG defines specifications for providing highly accurate traffic- and traveller information of many kinds. TPEG allows the transfer of data via different bearers e.g. digital broadcast or internet. In fact, today this is mainly used to inform travellers on roads, train tracks or even pedestrians. Information for a convenient journey e.g. on road conditions, weather, fuel prices, parking or delays of public transport are coded in TPEG.TPEG is a protocol with containers which carry specific content, for each service on a specific content so called 'applications' are defined in a separate technical specification. TPEG is designed to be modern and flexible, it is even more future proof, easy to adapt towards new trends, needs and conditions. Selecting the right applications and technical implementation profile, allows provision of safety relevant information to all travellers on time, accurately and precisely. Due to this major benefit, TPEG is also welcomed by regulators and public authorities. TPEG based products are already available in several European and Asian and American markets from different suppliers. Such products range from content creation/managementWEB,weblink TPEG, 8 December 2015, GEWI, over encoder/decoder equipment,WEB,weblink TPEG Encoder/Converter, 8 December 2015, Institut fÃ¼r Rundfunktechnik (IRT), WEB,weblink TPEG End-to-End Solution, 8 December 2015, SM CNS, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20151208175152weblink">weblink 8 December 2015, WEB,weblink TPEG Decoder Software, 8 December 2015, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), test equipmentWEB,weblink Traffic Telematics, 8 December 2015, Bayerische Medien Technik GmbH, and receiver/navigation devicesNEWS,weblink BMW the first with new jam-busting technology: Real Time Traffic Information (RTTI), 10 October 2011, BMW Group, 8 December 2015, NEWS,weblink Audi launches TPEG over IP traffic info powered by INRIX XD Traffic, 24 January 2011, Telematics News, 8 December 2015, to numerous servicesWEB,weblink INRIX TPEG Connectâ„¢ Optimizes Delivery and Reduces Costs of Providing Dynamic Traffic Info to Connected Vehicles and Devices, 28 July 2010, 8 December 2015, INRIX, WEB,weblink V-Traffic Premium DAB, 8 December 2015, Mediamobile, NEWS,weblink Mediamobile Delivers First Digital Radio Traffic Service in Germany, 15 May 2013, TDF Group, 8 December 2015, WEB,weblink Traffic Information Platform (TRIP), 8 December 2015, Quantum Inventions, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160213070840weblink">weblink 13 February 2016, NEWS,weblink TomTom HD Traffic now available as TPEG service for automotive navigation solutions, TomTom, 8 December 2015, MAGAZINE,weblink Real-Time Traffic Info Gets More Real, INRIX, 6 July 2012, Wired, 8 December 2015, that are online worldwide. Further, encryption solutionsWEB,weblink HECA â€“ High Efficiency Conditional Access for Digital Broadcast Services, 8 December 2015, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), are available for commercial services.

TPEG design philosophy

TPEG is developed in a top-down fashion based on modeling use cases in the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Based on the UML modeling, two encoding versions are derived:

Extensible Markup Language (XML) encoding â€“ This format is human- and machine-readable and it can be easily rendered in navigation devices by parsing the XML structure. It is further backwards compatible in a way that new XML tags can be included in a given application, which would be simply skipped by older device populations that do not recognize these tags. New device populations can however benefit from the new features.
Binary encoding â€“ This format is not human-readable, but much more compact than its XML representation. Binary encoding is therefore frequently used when the available bandwidth is small and a compact encoding of services is of the essence.

TPEG core principles

The following principles are considered as core in the development of the TPEG protocol, structure and semantics (seeWEB,weblink Intelligent transport systems -- Traffic and travel information via transport protocol experts group, generation 1 (TPEG1) binary data format -- Part 2: Syntax, semantics and framing structure (TPEG1-SSF), 15 October 2013, 12 December 2015, ISO, TISA, andWEB,weblink Intelligent transport systems â€“ Traffic and travel information (TTI) via transport protocol experts group, generation 2 (TPEG2) -- Part 5: Service framework (TPEG2-SFW), 1 March 2015, 12 December 2015, ISO, TISA, ).TPEG:

is designed for unidirectional (broadcast) and bi-directional communication channels (e.g. IP)
binary versions are byte-oriented
provides a protocol structure with asynchronous framing and a hierarchical data frame structure
includes CRC error detection capabilities on different protocol levels
assumes that the underlying communication layers provide error correction
uses a transparent data channel
facilitates transmission of service provider names, service names, network information, etc.
permits the use of encryption mechanisms, e.g. for restricting access to commercial services

TPEG additional capabilitiesTPEG:

supports dynamic ("on-the-fly") location referencing methods and therefore does not need a preloaded location database (e.g. TMC Location Tables)
offers rich content encoding
is language independent
facilitates client device filtering of service content
is designed to support "thick" and "thin" client devices
provides adaptation layers for different communication bearers

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!ISO Part No.!ISO Reference!Title!Acronym!Description|21219-1|weblink|Introduction, numbering and versions|INV|This Technical Specification provides an introduction and index to the complete set of TPEG Generation 2 toolkit components and applications. It allows the indexing of new applications as they are added to the TPEG applications family, by defining their Application Identification (AID).

|21219-2|weblink|UML modelling rules|UMR|Rules to define the semantics of a TPEG application by a suitable model, independent from its physical data format and transmission issues. These rules ease TPEG implementation process.

|21219-3|weblink|UML to binary conversion rules|UBCR|TPEG applications are modelled in UML to provide an application description that is independent of a physical format representation. By separating semantics from application description, applications can easily be developed at a functional level. Different physical format representations can be generated following a well defined set of rules on how to convert UML classes to different physical formats.

|21219-5|weblink|Service framework|SFW|TPEG2 can provide a multiplex of TPEG Services and applications. Both the binary and XML formats are specified to compose a multiplex of TPEG services, each potentially having multiple TPEG applications.

|21219-7|weblink|Location referencing container|LRC|The TPEG2-Location Referencing Container is used to signal which specific location referencing method is in use for a particular TPEG Message. It is able to handle Location Referencing methods that are external to the present ISO series and the internal location referencing methods defined as parts of this series.

|21219-9|weblink|Service and network information|SNI|The TPEG-SNI application is designed to allow the efficient and language independent delivery of information about the availability of the same service on another bearer channel or similar service data from another service provider, directly from service provider to end-users. In all TPEG streams it is mandatory to deliver to so-called GST. Additionally it is possible to signal linkage of content between different bearers and services.

|21219-10|weblink|Conditional access information|CAI|Function applied on service frame or service component level. Thanks to it, some service components may be encrypted using the same "encryption key", while other remain unencrypted or use different "encryption keys".

|21219-11||Universal location referencing|ULR|The Universal Location Referencing (ULR) was designed to support use cases beyond automotive applications and offers a flexible method that supports human-understandable representations, like text, as well as machine-readable code for map-matching on digital maps. ULR contains geo-coordinates (WGS84) together with supplementary information (e.g. direction, height, level), while keeping the overall complexity of encoding/decoding limited.

|21219-15|weblink|Traffic event compact application|TEC|Compact application for traffic event / incident information. TPEG2-TEC is optimized to support dynamic route guidance navigation devices. This application is currently in the phase of being rolled out by more and more providers to replace TMC

|21219-16|weblink|Fuel price information application|FPI|This application has been designed to support information of fuel stations, their location, fuel types offered, and fuel pricing and availability information.

|21219-18|weblink|Traffic flow and prediction application|TFP|Compact application providing precise travel speed / travel time and forecast information. Many premium dynamic navigation devices use this application as a basis to use current and expected traffic to be displayed to the user and for dynamic route calculation

|21219-20||Extended TMC location referencing|ETL|This application establishes additional fields for coding closed exit and entries. This is primarily aimed at devices which can only decode TEC with TMC-Location-Container.Furthermore, the possibility is added to "Extend" a TMC location to include the Internal road segments of the secondary location, and to exclude optionally the internal road segments of the primary location.

|21219-21||Geographic location referencing|GLR|Method for signaling geographic location references (points, poly-lines, and geographical areas), which can be transported inside a TPEG-Location Referencing Container (TPEG-LRC) for those TPEG applications wishing to relay primarily geographical locations (e.g. Weather).

|21219-22|weblink|OpenLR location referencing|OLR|Designed to transfer traffic information (e.g. current traffic situation at a certain point, special alerts) from a centre to in-vehicle systems, built-in or used as an add-on (PND, Smart Phone).

|21219-23|weblink|Road and multimodal routes application|RMR|This application enables the provision of precise information and guidance from a central knowledge base to a traveller's mobile device. It encompasses road routes as well as multi-modal routes and parking.

|21219-24|weblink|Light encryption|LTE|

|21219-25|weblink|Electromobility charging infrastructure|EMI|

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External links

Traveller Information Services Association (TISA)
Institut fÃ¼r Rundfunktechnik (IRT)
BEST Consortium
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