in a vehicular radio receiver having a decoder for decoding digitally encoded received traffic announcements , a memory device for route - specific characteristics and a visual and / or acoustical output device for the traffic announcements are provided . the output is effected by the readout of information from the memory device . to output not only factual information but detour recommendations as well , place names and detour route names are stored in the memory device in jointly addressable memory fields . in transmitting the encoded traffic announcements it is then possible to allow or suppress the output of the already stored detour recommendations only on the basis of a control signal .