Since about 1970, motorists have been informed about traffic conditions on the motorways by means of radio broadcasts. The system could be improved if a denser system of automatic data collection, efficient data processing and a quick conversion of the data into information to be broadcast via the radio information system were available. The improvement of the topicality of the traffic information is not so much a technical as a financial problem. Suitable measures in this respect will be taken by the Federal Republic of Germany in the years to come.
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