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The Highway is a commercial-free country music radio station on Sirius XM channel 56. It was created when Sirius and XM merged their competing hit country stations, "New Country" on Sirius and "Highway 16" on XM. The Highway can also be streamed at SiriusXM.com and through its app for mobile devices. [1]
SIRIUS Traffic is a premium data service, providing continuous updates pertaining to circumstances on upcoming roads and highways, such as road closures, traffic accidents, and road works. SIRIUS Traffic is available without Travel Link, but all vehicles that do come with Travel Link come with SIRIUS Traffic.
Both public and commercial services are operational in many countries. When data is integrated directly into a navigation system, traffic information can be used in the system's route calculation. A Radio Data System – Traffic Message Channel (RDS-TMC) receiver (left) attached to a TomTom navigation system via a USB cable.
The main motivation for vehicular communication systems is safety and eliminating the excessive cost of traffic collisions. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road accidents annually cause approximately 1.2 million deaths worldwide; one fourth of all deaths caused by injury.
Sirius XM has developed a software application for use on the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices that allows its subscribers and users of those devices to listen to its programming. The application was released and available for download on the evening of June 17, 2009. The Sirius XM app is available at the iTunes App Store.
Vehicles are enabled to communicate among themselves (vehicle-to-vehicle, V2V) and via roadside access points (vehicle-to-roadside, V2R) also called as Road Side Units (RSUs). Vehicular communication is expected to contribute to safer and more efficient roads by providing timely information to drivers, and also to make travel more convenient.
Sirius XM Radio now has more than 25 million subscribers to its premium radio service, but there are more than 50 million Sirius or XM receivers out there. Simple math tells us that roughly half ...
Floating cellular data is one of the methods to collect floating car data. This method uses cellular network data ( CDMA , GSM , UMTS , GPRS ). No special devices/hardware are necessary: every switched-on mobile phone becomes a traffic probe and is as such an anonymous source of information.