GEWI would like to thank everyone involved in hosting and attending our first ever North American Traffic Technologies Tour. Topics included technologies that are used around the world for location referencing and harmonization, data exchange between systems, next generation of real-time data for traffic navigation, and data exchange for connected vehicles/infrastructure projects. We had many requests from locations and attendees we were unable to honor, so please look for a follow-up webinar to be held in January 2011. If you’d like to receive notification of this event, register for the GEWI newsletter at www.gewi.com.
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GEWI Global Business & Product Workshop
GEWI’s 2010 global business and product workshop was held in September in Germany on the shores of Lake Tegernsee, about an hour south of Munich in Bavaria.
Teams from Product Development, Customer Projects and Sales and Marketing engaged in a week of intense review of product requirements, features, and process improvements.
Read MoreGEWI Exhibited at ITS World Congress in Busan, Korea
Visitors to ITS World Congress in Busan Korea had an opportunity to view the latest developments in TIC3, the world’s most popular platform for the management of traffic data.
GEWI’s David Marsh presented a paper on the TPEG traffic data protocol during the exhibition.
Read MoreAlpine Electronics Selects TIC NavTest
GEWI is pleased to announce that Alpine Electronics is the latest device manufacturer to use TIC NavTest for navigation testing,
Alpine Electronics of America, Inc., is the industry-leading manufacturer of high performance mobile electronics.
Read MoreCustomer Requests Generate New TIC Features
One of the ongoing benefits to GEWI clients is the continual improvement of the TIC product.
Every week, GEWI engineers release a new developmental version of the TIC3 software which includes new features. These releases are tested and then issued as new production versions about 4 times per year.
The items included in each of these releases are a summary of new features or enhancements that have been requested by TIC clients worldwide. These new features are available at no additional cost to licensed TIC clients beyond the standard support and maintenaince.
A few new features include: the ability to assign confidence levels to various types of data, deeper map zoom levels (useful for the user to recognize the traffic situation on special locations where many roads are within a small area), tile re-sizing and enhanced caching of network tiles to improve performance, and new labels for highway junctions.
Read MoreTIC for location reference harmonization
GEWI has devised a unique solution to the challenge of harmonizing location references between systems and data sets. With this solution, multiple location references can be harmonized.
Objects in TIC3 can be referenced by the most popular location referencing methods such as geographical position (lat, long), TMC location, distance marker, AGORA-C and OpenLR. TIC3 locations are used for the internal representation of each location to provide harmonization between the other location referencing methods.
This means, regardless of which location referencing system is used, TIC3 is able to cross reference this data. Each referencing method will be referenced to a TIC3 Location and back to each referencing method. This makes it possible to now cross reference between any one or more referencing methods.
Read MoreTIC Supports GDF Map Data From Tele Atlas and NAVTEQ
TIC3 can be used to reference all objects to road network and areas. As a network digital map data in GDF 3.0 format from Tele Atlas and NAVTEQ can be used. TIC also features the capability to reference objects to multiple road networks, including ESRI shape files and custom networks.
Read MoreTIC for Vehicle Infrastructure Projects
In the US, the Vehicle to Infrastructure initiative is called IntelliDrive. In Europe, a similar project is underway called DIAMANT. This project involves dynamic information and applications for retaining mobility by using adaptive networks and telematics infrastrucure. TIC is used in this project to collect traffic events, link speed, variable message signs and roadwork from the road network. From the vehicle, TIC collects GPS position plus heading, speed and status of brakes, lights, and other systems.
Read MoreDenis Troian Joins GEWI Development Team
GEWI is pleased to welcome Denis Troian to the Product Development Team. Denis holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Computer Sciences and specializes in software ergonomics and usability, and software localization. Prior to joining GEWI, Denis was a VB and C# developer at Fujitsu-Siemens.
Read MoreGEWI Global Business & Product Workshop
This September, GEWI will hold its annual business and product workshop. GEWI product development, customer projects, sales & marketing and business management teams will meet to discuss customer requirements, new markets, new technologies, and processes to improve GEWI products. The workshop also serves as a forum to improve overall GEWI business systems and processes.
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