This Function shall be capable of providing the following facilities:<br/><br/>(1) The ability to output information, and/or warnings, and/or commands to Drivers using the inter-urban road network by mechanisms other than In-vehicle displays.<br/>(2) At the same time, the ability to forward the information, and/or warnings, and/or commands to be sent to other functionality for subsequent output to approaching Vehicles and for use by In-vehicle displays.<br/>(3) The ability for the outputs to have a variety of uses ranging from providing journey time information to providing Drivers with commands for unexpected speed or lane use.<br/>(3) The ability to use several different technologies to provide the outputs but not through any in-vehicle technology as this will be provided separately. <br/>(4) The ability to accommodate through non-functional mechanisms the differentiation between the way that information and commands are provided to Drivers according to the demands of the particular implementation.<br/>(5) The ability to monitor all of the outputs and revisions to any already being output that are likely to give rise to inconsistent and incoherent messages being displayed to Drivers.<br/>
(a) when the msg (message) request data flow is received from the Inter-urban Traffic Control function, or any of the data flows from the vehicle is received, their contents shall be implemented;<br/>(b) the implementation required in (a) shall be achieved through the output of the data flows to drivers and to the Send Messages to Approaching Inter-urban Vehicle function in the inter-urban data for approaching vehicles data flow and to the Manage Vehicle Communication to Driver function through the inter-urban c&i messages data low;<br/>(c) the response to (b) shall be sent to the Inter-urban Traffic Control function using the msg response data flow;<br/>(d) if the response from (b) is that the data flow has not been output to drivers, data shall be sent to the Maintenance Management functionality using the msg equipment fault data flow;<br/>(e) when the incident warning msg or urban crossing messages data flows are received, they shall be implemented as in (b) to (d) above;<br/>(f) the contents of the outputs in (b) shall be monitored and any that might lead to inconsistent or incoherent messages being displayed to drivers, revised;<br/>(g) if the inter-urban c&i display error data flow is received, check its contents to see if a difference has been found;<br/>(h) if a difference has been found then send a device failed indication in the inter-urban c&i device status and inter-urban traffic management c&i response data flows.<br/>