This Function shall be capable of providing the following facilities:<br/><br/>(1) The ability to collect road based travel data for use in the preparation of trip plans for Travellers, as well as for Freight and Emergency Vehicles.<br/>(2) The ability to collect the data as it arrives from functionality in the Manage Traffic Functional Area.<br/>(3) The ability to load the collected data into the store of Road Trip Planning Data and to manage all of the data in that store.<br/>
(a) continuously monitor for the receipt of the data flows from functionality in the Manage Traffic Functional Area;<br/>(b) when any of the data flows in (a) arrive, their contents shall be immediately sent to the Road Trip Planning Data Store management function;<br/>(c) if the road network traffic predictions data flow is not received, predicted travel time data for every segment of the road network shall be calculated based on the current and historic travel data received in the other data flows;<br/>(d) the results from (c) shall be sent to the Road Trip Planning Data Store management function to take the place of the data that would have been received in the road network traffic predictions data flow;<br/>(e) the journey time data from (b) or (d) shall be sent to the Other Navigation Device in the data flow containing traffic data;<br/>(f) continuously monitor for the receipt of traffic data from the Other Navigational Device in the data flow containing traffic data;<br/>(g) when the data flow in (f) is received, load the data it contains into a separate part of the store of Road Trip Planning Data that is reserved for data from Other Navigation Devices.<br/>