Standards
The project aims to keep the HA informed on the latest news and developments in standards relevant to ITS at a national, European and international level. A document is also periodically maintained, which tracks the progress of new and developing standards, as well as listing published standards with any updates or reviews. Common approaches, guidelines and agreements are also monitored, in addition to formal standards. |
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A standard is a technical specification or report that is developed with consensus across industry and is then approved by a body recognised at the national or international level. Standards specify how systems, products and services should operate and they should facilitate inter-operability and integration without impeding innovation as new technologies and approaches develop.
Specific ITS standardisation topics have been identified as having particular relevance to the HA. Click the links below for a summary description, related fact sheets and links to recent articles.
- INSPIRE Directive and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) - Europe-wide sharing of spatial data, where it is possible to search, view, download and transform
- Wireless Communications for Co-operative Systems - Saving lives and reducing congestion through vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication
- Traffic and Traveller Information (TTI) - Reducing congestion through better real-time traveller information
- Location Referencing - Compatible matching of locations from different geographical databases
- Data Exchange - Common methods for exchange of traffic data between roadside modules and traffic management centres
- eCall - Pan-European in-vehicle automatic 112 emergency call service
- Project MESA - Automatic broadband Internet for real-time video and communications at incident scenes
- Electronic Fee Collection (EFC) - Interoperability for EFC and tolling
Contact the Project Help Desk to register additional topics of interest.
The ITS Standards Tracking Spreadsheet lists published standards with any updates or reviews, as well as tracking the progress of new and developing standards. Contact details for the various working groups are also given.
Please find below links to Articles, Newsletters and Fact Sheets about ITS Standards:
