This Function shall be capable of providing the following facilities:<br/><br/>(1) The ability to periodically receive data about current traffic conditions in the inter-urban road network from the functionality that manages the store of Inter-urban Traffic Data, plus the functionality that manages lane use and maximum speeds within the inter-urban road network.<br/>(2) The ability to immediately output the data which has been received to other parts of the System or to entities that are outside of the System.<br/>(3) When a request is received from the Broadcaster entity, the ability to output the latest set of data that is available about inter-urban traffic conditions.<br/>
(a) continuously monitor for the receipt of the any of the input data flows;<br/>(b) when the data flow inter-urban traffic information request is received in (a), output the current traffic information to the broadcaster using the data flow containing inter-urban traffic data;<br/>(c) when the inter-urban traffic data for output data flow is received in (a), store its contents locally updating any previously received data that has been changed;<br/>(d) when (c) is complete, output the revised version of the inter-urban traffic data to functionality in other Functional Areas, the broadcaster and the traffic and travel information provide in the appropriate output data flows;<br/>(e) when either the inter-urban lane instructions or the inter-urban speed limit changes data flows are received in (a), repeat (c) and (d) for the data that they contain.<br/>