Date: 4/11/2009
The European Commission has issued a mandate inviting three European standardisation bodies to develop a “coherent set of standards, specifications and guidelines to support European Community wide implementation and deployment of Co-operative ITS systems”.
The Mandate addresses CEN, CENELEC and ETSI (the European Committee for Standardisation, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, respectively).
The mandate, which can be downloaded from ec.europa.eu/, describes the following work:
- “Carry out an analysis of the required European standardisation activity based on the existing roadmaps of the standardisation process for Co-operative ITS services within the European Standardisation organisations. The analysis should:
- Include a detailed work programme covering the necessary standardisation work
- Identify which are the potential functionalities that the new systems can supply... identify the risks for the privacy of the users of these functionalities and the measures to be taken to eliminate these risks. The work programme should detail the expected economic impact of these new functionalities and their requirements in terms of exchange of information and communications
- Identify the minimum set of European standards required in the field of Cooperative systems... This set of standards should be divided into communication, information and security standards and should take into account existing work, such as DATEX (CEN TC 278 WG8).
- Develop the identified minimum set of European standards (ENs) contained in the work programme within the stated time schedule
- Develop test methods for assessing the conformity of the identified minimum set of standards
- Develop the rest of the identified standards and technical specifications for Cooperative ITS.”
ITS Radar International will monitor developments in these standards
Keywords: Communications, Cooperative vehicle systems, European Commission, Policy, Standards
