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Chapter 14
ITS standardization bodies
and standards
14.1 World-level standardization bodies
The main standardization body for intelligent transport systems (ITS) or telemat-
ics standards is the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO
has released three technical standards on ITS, which concern the management
of traffic and travel information. However, there exist many regional associa-
tions that define standards at a continent level such as the European Commit-
tee for Standardization (CEN), or the European Telecommunication Standards
Institute (ETSI) or even national bodies such as the Association of Radio Indus-
tries and Businesses (ARIB) in Japan, which further complicate the landscape
of standardization in the ITS domain. The standards issued so far cover a wide
range of transport systems’ aspects ranging from information management and
communications to the services delivered to the end-user (Williams, 2008). ISO
provides standards for:
• Communications Access for Land Mobiles (CALM), ISO-21210. Also a se-
ries of CALM standards such as ISO-21217 on CALM using WLAN, ISO
25111 on CALM using Public Wireless Networks, WIMAX, and other stan-
dards, etc.
• Personal data protection in Probe Vehicle Information Services, ISO 24100
• IT security evaluation, ISO 15408 and ISO 15446
• Data interoperability and information exchange, ISO 9160, ISO 9591, ISO
10736, ISO 11577, etc.
• Road Transport and Traffic Telematics, ISO 24534, ISO 24535
• Radio frequency identification for Item Management, ISO 18000
• Geographic and Location-Based Services for ITS, ISO 14825, ISO 17572,
ISO 22953
Since ITS operates over a complex ecosystem that comprises humans, vehi-
cles and the backbone network, the standards may relate to the short or long-
range wireless communications standards, to the technical specification of ITS,
and the technology they employ for information encoding, information privacy,
and security, for the geographic/location-based services and for the human-
machine interfacing. Under this assumption, ISO 19100 Series of Standards on