The paper presents a case study conducted at the Swedish Road Administration (the SRA) focussing on the RDS-TMC service, a type of e-service. The implementation of the RDS-TMC service is based on two conceptual standards: the ALERT-C and Location Code standards. The main purpose of the case study has been to understand the functionality (role) of these standards by investigating how the SRA has implemented and used the standards behind the RDS-TMC service in order to provide the service.