Benefits of Membership
Every organisation with an interest in TMC can benefit from membership of the TMC Forum. TMC Forum members enjoy the following benefits:
- presence at the only meeting place devoted to all aspects of TMC
- access to the authority that sets and enforces TMC quality standards
- opportunity to build partnerships with all players in the business chain
- help determine priorities and "road-map" for future TMC development
- opportunity to implement new features
- free access to all working groups and documents*
- testing and approval of location tables and advice on services and terminals
- right to develop and implement Conditional Access TMC services and products
Every Forum member can take part in the full range of activities, with no limit on the number of active participants per organisation. Members have full access to the private part of the TMC Forum website. This contains a wealth of information, including:
- Guidelines
- Procedures
- Specifications
- Use cases
- Draft standards
- TMC Handbook
- Location databases
- TMC services and products
- Meeting information: agenda, minutes and working documents
Specific benefits for key sectors include:
Service providers
- neutral test and development of environment for new services
- assistance with quality assessment and receiver compatibility of services
- interface to content providers, receiver and car manufacturers, broadcasters
- help define standards for business features and quality assurance procedures
Receiver Manufacturers
- share pre-competitive development across industry
- reduce risk when implementing new features
- industry-wide control and coordination of location tables
- benchmark competitors, partner with customers
Car Manufacturers
- better planning of in-vehicle TMC products
- support for new product implementation
- help build partnerships with suppliers and service providers
- lower risk with TMC Forum seal of approval
Map Database suppliers
- Industry-level verification of location tables
- planned & orderly release of location table updates
- influence next developments in TMC location referencing
Public Authorities
- integration of TMC with national traveller information policy
- verification of service and database quality
- help with partnerships between the public and private sectors
- ensuring pan-European services
- encouragement of new traveller information services
Broadcasters
- join in verification and quality control process
- input requirements to definition and development of standards
- interface to content and service providers
* Please note, the official ISO standards describing TMC can be obtained in their final versions only from the appropriate national standards body or directly from ISO at their online standards store. This is the case for any official standard, intended to maintain the integrity and version-control by providing a definitive source.
