The Road Traffic Safety Association (RTSA) of Korea, which mainly provides safety improvement services under the umbrella of the National Police Agency (NPA), is expected to provide traffic information to the general public, hopefully from fall of 1997. The types of traffic information would be those of traffic congestion, incident, construction sites, and the optimum path over networks based on current traffic status. The system is to be called KORTIC (Korea Road Traffic Information Center) and it is now evolving with scanty traffic sources that are available. The purpose of this paper is to describe the system concept, components and configuration, building process, and the functions and present and future roles of the system. The first phase system development will be deployed up to late August of this year, with the second, third, and fourth phase plans to be deployed as scheduled in 1998 and 1999, respectively.
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