Over the past 20 years, GEWI's TIC Software product has evolved from simply providing the ability to create and broadcast traffic information for RDS-TMC navigation devices to now encompass an ever growing list of product features which power a range of solutions for Cities.

GEWI's customers include state road agencies and municipalities, police, car and device manufacturers, automobile clubs, police, radio stations, commercial service providers and toll road operators.

This broad customer base has resulted in GEWI's development of a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution that satisfies the requirements between all these customer types.

Just a few of the TIC Product Features relevant to Cities include:

Work Zone provides the ability to plan and provide permits for multi-phase work zones including distribution of all relevant information to all involved organizations as well as navigation, broadcast, apps and other systems.

Parking allows for the collection, or creation of important parking data such as occupancy, location, pricing, and many other easily configurable elements. The information is then available to be distributed to any app, systems or service providers who require the data. 

Organized event provides the ability to collect, or create, information about events and use this information as an input to create traffic and travel information associated with the event.

Accident information can be automatically collected or manually created with details including the location, direction, and in the case of accidents people involved, and road infrastructure damages caused by the accident, and much more. 

Traffic Flow data such as speed, delay, and LOS can be collected from suppliers such as TomTom, HERE, Inrix, and ADAC and distributed to required systems and apps in TIC3 XML format.  The traffic flow can also be related in TIC to provide Operators an accurate picture of real-time conditions on the roadway to quickly verify and process traffic events.

For more information about the many other TIC Product features and how they can benefit Cities, visit www.gewi.com

2017 was a milestone year for GEWI. Not only did the company celebrate 25 years in business, but also the 20th year of TIC Software as a product. The first public radio broadcast customer to used TIC (known originally as TMC Office), was MDR.

MDR has used all four versions of the software starting with TMC Office to create RDS-TMC broadcast and recently upgrading to TIC3 to enable MDR to provide TPEG broadcast services.

As the TIC software evolved, so has MDR's usage of more of the additional features. TIC3 is now used for traffic announcements as well as providing traffic via the Internet to mobile devices. Previously 4 instances of TIC were used regionally to provide broadcasts for local areas but since 2015 all local and countrywide stations broadcast are produced by one central location in Halle, Germany.

While GEWI is proud of the 20 year evolution of the TIC Software product, we are even more pleased to have MDR as a customer all these years and look forward to providing them with many product enhancements in the years to come.

The theme of the 2017 ITS World Congress was "Next Generation Integrated Mobility, Driving Smart Cities", which is an appropriate topic for which GEWI's TIC Software is well suited to demonstrate real world solutions.

• Traffic and Travel Information Services.
• Work Zone.
• Road Incident Management.
• ITS Asset Management.
• Real-time information for Navigation.
• Traffic News for Radio.
• Public Transport Events.
• ...and more.