Transport standards organisations is an article transport Standards organisations, consortia and groups that are involved in producing and maintaining standards that are relevant to the global transport technology, transport journey planning and transport ticket/retailing industry. Transport systems are inherently distributed systems with complex information requirements. Robust modern standards for transport data are important for the safe and efficient operation of transport systems. These include:
Formal standards development organisations;
Other international bodies developing definitive core specifications;
Other important international bodies;
Other National bodies developing definitive core specifications;
Other important National bodies
The formal development of international standards is organised in three tiers of Standards Development Organisations, recognised by international agreements :
World: International Organisation for Standardisation, ISO.
Regional Regional Standards bodies coordinate standardisation between geographically or politically connected regions with a need to harmonise products and practices. For example in Europe, the European Committee for Standardisation or CEN
National, e.g. Most Nations have a coordinating body responsible for organizing participation in CEN & ISO activities, for publishing ISO & CEN standards within the country, and for coordinating national standardisation activities. The National SDO in turn will delegate responsibility as appropriate to the relevant trade associations, government departments and other stakeholders for a specific are of technical expertise. For example, in the UK the British Standards Institution or BSI is the National SDO.
The SDOs conduct their work through a system of working groups, responsible for different areas of expertise. These evolve over time to accommodate changes in technology. key current working groups for transport standards are outlined below.
CEN Working Groups and leaders for Transport Standards
CEN Allocates responsibility for different areas of transport standardisation to working groups
WG1 - Automatic Fee Collection and Access Control -CEN
WG2 - Freight and Fleet Management System - ISO
WG3 - Public Transport - ISO
WG4 - TTI – Traffic and Traveller Information - ISO
WG5 - TC - Traffic Control - ISO
WG6 - Parking Management - n/a
WG7/8 - Geographic Road Data Base: Road Traffic Data - ISO
WG9 - Dedicated Short Range Communications - CEN
WG10 - Man-machine Interface - n/a
WG11 - Subsystem- Intersystem Interfaces - ISO
WG12 - Automatic Vehicle and Equipment Identification - CEN
WG13 - System Architecture and Terminology - ISO
ISO Working Groups and leaders for Transport Standards
ISO Technical Committee 204 is responsible for Transport Information and Control Systems. It has a number of standing Working Groups, which set up Subgroups from time to time.
Current ISO TC204 Working Groups, Work program & Countries that provide Secretariat are as follows
WG1 Architecture - UK
WG2 Quality and Reliability Requirements - Japan
WG3 TICS Database Technology - Japan
WG4 Automatic Vehicle Identification - Norway
WG5 Fee and Toll Collection Holland
WG7 General Fleet Management and Commercial and Freight - Canada
WG8 Public Transport/Emergency - America
WG9 Integrated Transport Information, Management, and Control - Australia
WG10 Traveller Information Systems - UK
WG11 Route Guidance and Navigation Systems - Germany
WG14 Vehicle/Roadway Warning and Control Systems - Japan
WG15 Dedicated Short Range Communications for TICS Applications - Germany
WG16 Wide Area Communications/Protocols and Interfaces - America
For an up-to-date schedule of the remit of TC204, its current Working Groups and their points of contact please refer to: [1]
The U.S. standards developing organization which is tasked with the domestic implementation of ISO TC204 Transport Standards, is the Telecommunications Industry Association.
As well as the formal SDOs, a number of other international bodies undertake work that is important for Transport and Transport Information standards
International Air Transport Association (IATA)
International Union of Railways (UIC)
European Broadcasting Union (EBU) - See TPEG
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
OpenTravel Alliance (OTA)
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
Object Management Group (OMG)
EuroRoadS
Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST)
European Railway Agency (ERA)
German organisations active in Transport Standards development
Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen (VDV)
Department for Transport (DfT)
Ordnance Survey (OS)
Rail Settlement Plan (RSP)
National Rail Enquiries (NRE)
Integrated Transport Smartcard Organisation (ITSO)
UTMC Development Group (UDG)
Real Time Information Group (RTIG)
Travel Information Highway (TIH)
Other important UK bodies and initiatives
Transport for London
National Traffic Control Centre (NTCC)
Association of Transport Operating Officers (ATCO)
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID)
Journey Solutions
Oyster card
US bodies developing definitive core Transit Standard specifications
National Transportation Communications for Intelligent Transportation System Protocol or NTCIP
