Bumper month for eNaTIS

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In July 2008 the National Traffic Information System (eNaTIS) processed a total of 13,954,917 transactions – the most for a single month thus far this year and an increase of 17.99% compared to the total number of transactions processed in June 2008. The system dealt effortlessly with this increase in demand and uptime was 100% during business hours.

Significant increases were experienced in all the main transaction categories: learner’s licence authorisations rose by 29.92%, interface transactions* by 20.21%, vehicle registrations by 18.75%, reports executed** by 17.16%, user transactions*** by 17.09%, driving licence card orders by 16.75%, vehicle licensing transactions by 12.17% and vehicle record introductions by 9.22%.

The full breakdown of the transactions performed per main category during July 2008 is as follows: 914,080 vehicle licensing transactions, 290,697 vehicle registrations, 211,553 driving licence card orders, 86,168 learner’s licence authorisations and 70,292 vehicle record introductions. In addition, 122,904 reports were executed on the system.

4,121,089 transactions were performed on other computer systems that have interfaces to the eNaTIS, while users of the eNaTIS application at registering authorities, testing stations and provincial authorities performed 9,833,828 transactions.

The Johannesburg service centre once again performed the most transactions (868,290) followed by the City of Cape Town (644,037), Pretoria (566,583), Durban (338,267) and Germiston (182,537).

With 55,714 transactions Volkswagen SA was the most active non-governmental entity using a system-to-system interface with the eNaTIS, followed by BMW SA (53,804), Mercedes SA (52,533), Toyota SA (45,417) and TransUnion HPI (34,848).

[ More information is available on www.enatis.com]

The public can assist in mapping the road to safety on GPS

The public can assist in mapping the road to safety on GPS

What happens when a local municipality changes a road or a new development alters a previous route? This might pose a risk to road users blindly following the map provided by their GPS provider.

The Arrive Alive Road Safety website has recently received a TomTom XL and has undertaken to analyze how such a device might benefit road safety in South Africa. It is important for the safety of foreign visitors that we provide advice and suggestions on road conditions in South Africa – and for local expertise to be provided to the developers.

TomTom Map Share allows a community of TomTom drivers to make map corrections and share them with millions of TomTom users on the roads, with user-friendly technology.

1. Drivers change by tapping into their device
2. The change is uploaded to TomTom’s database
3. It is then sent to all Map Share usersFrom changing the name of a road to reporting a change of traffic direction, useful additions come from users actually using the roads. Even temporary changes, like road works, are included.

What corrections can be made?

 

The public can assist in mapping the road to safety on GPS

• (Un)block street
  Allows you to block access for cars from either one or both sides of the street (i.e. if a street has changed to a one way street or is not accessible at all any more).
• Reverse traffic direction
  Allows you to change the traffic direction of one way streets on your map.
• Edit  street name
  Allows you to edit street names (i.e. if the street name is incorrect or does not yet exist in the map data).
• Change turn restrictions*
  Allows you to change an incorrect road turn direction.
  * Application version 8.00 or higher
• Change road speed*
  Allows you to change road speed limit.
  * Application version 8.00 or higher
• Add missing POI (Point Of Interest)
  Allows you to add POIs to the preinstalled POI categories (i.e. if you pass a petrol station, hotel, restaurant, etc. which is not yet available on the map).
• Edit POI
  Allows you to do one of the following to a POI that exists on your map:
  • Delete the POI (if it no longer exists) 
  • Rename the POI (if the name is incorrect) 
  • Change the POI phone number (if the phone number is incorrect or not yet available in the map data) 
  • Change the POI category (if the POI is in the wrong category) 
  • Move the POI on the map (if it is not positioned correctly)

The Report other error menu provides a number of options for corrections, which do not take effect on your current map, but are reported to the map provider for verification.

The public can assist in mapping the road to safety on GPS

• Existing street
  Allows you to do the following for streets that exist on your map: 
  • Report streets that no longer exist
  • Report an incorrect street name
  • Report wrong or missing house numbers
  • Report wrong speed limits
  • Report wrong turns (i.e. if you are not allowed to turn left or right at a specific crossing)
  • Report wrong street type
  • Report a toll road
  • Report streets that are positioned incorrectly
  • Report mispronounced street names
• Missing street
  Allows you to add a new street to your map 
• City
  Allows you to report the following: 
  • Missing city
  • Wrong city name
  • Alternative city name
• Motorway entrance / exit
  Allows you to report new and incorrect motorway entrances and exits
• Postcode
  Allows you to change an incorrect postcode or add a new postcode if it does not yet exist on your map. 
• Roundabout
  Allows you to add or remove roundabouts to / from your map.

TomTom has revealed that an average of 150,000 changes are submitted to Map Share every month, and this figure is always climbing. South African users need not be passive – road users can only benefit from the assistance of other road users in mapping the way to safety!

Visit the Arrive Alive Road Safety Website for more information on “GPS and Road Safety”