BBC DEMONSTRATES ITS PROPOSED DRIVER INFORMATION SERVICE

Proposals by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for small-area broadcasting of traffic information are outlined. A network of about 80 low-power medium-wave transmitters would be set up in the pattern of a grid covering the whole country, each station being about 50km from its neighbour in any direction. All the stations would operate on a single, medium frequency which would be just within the tuning range of a medium-wave receiver. Individual stations in an area would each broadcast in turn for a short time, such as 30 seconds once every eight minutes. Limited trails are being carried out. /TRRL/

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• Corporate Authors:

  Printerhall Limited

  29 Newmart Street
  London W1P 3PE,   England 
• Publication Date: 1976-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 164
• Serial:
  • Traffic Engineering & Control
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Hemming Group, Limited
  • ISSN: 0041-0683
  • Serial URL: http://www.tecmagazine.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Broadcasting; Cartographic grids; Demonstration projects; Driver information systems; Electrical grids; Electromagnetic frequencies; Radio receivers; Traffic; Transmission
• Old TRIS Terms: Demonstration; Radio transmission
• ITRD Terms: 9098: Communication; 224: Cost; 1772: Driver; 9109: Prototype; 6947: Radio; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00138884
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 16 1977 12:00AM