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About ISO/TC204 Intelligent Transport Systems

Overview

Since our establishment in 1992, TC204 has developed and maintained a suite of standards and other artefacts for the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) environment. The ITS environment interacts with many other domains and TC 204 coordinates with other ISO technical committees (e.g., TC 22) to ensure a proper division of work as defined by our scope.

ISO / TC 204 standardizes all aspects of information and communication technologies (ICT) for the control, operations and management of surface and near-surface transport systems. This scope covers pedestrians as well as private, public, and commercial movement of people and goods using roads, bridges, tunnels, ferries, motorways, micromobility, public-area mobile robots (PMRs), low-flying aerial vehicles, motorized and non-motorized vehicles, and various driving automation systems within indoor, outdoor, urban, rural, intermodal, and multimodal environments.

The scope includes, but is not limited to, the following service domains and technical aspects: traveller information, traffic management and operations, vehicle services, freight transport, public transport, emergency service, payment for transport-related services, weather and environmental conditions monitoring, disaster response management and coordination, performance management.

Excluded:

  • In-vehicle information and control systems and services that are independent of any (1) external data perceived by on-board sensors, or (2) information received via communications with external sources (ISO/TC 22)

Note:

  • ISO / TC 204 is responsible for the overall system and infrastructure aspects of intelligent transport systems (ITS), as well as the coordination of the overall ISO work programme in this field including the schedule for standards development, taking into account the work of existing international standardization bodies.
  • ISO/TC 204 has developed ISO 14813-1 to formally describe the covered service domains.

Our 360 active documents collectively describe:

  • a common ITS framework including:
  • many specialised deliverables that describe and define various components that help deliver ITS Services and solutions.

TC204 and our work exists within a much broader operating context requiring collaboration with other developers of related standards, both within ISO (such as TC22 Road Vehicles and TC344 Innovative Logisitics) and beyond (such as CEN/TC278 ITS Standards and ISO/IEC/JTC 1/WG 11 Smart cities). Our current liaisons are illustrated below, with links available here.

TC204 Liaisons

TC 204 Liaisons {:.figcaption}

TC204 Committee Structure

TC204 delivers its official work programme through a broad range of groups consisting of:

  • AG - Advisory Groups (typically special projects / initiatives)
  • WG - Working Groups within TC204
  • JWG - Joint Working Groups to formally collaborate with experts outside of TC204 (such as other ISO/TCs or other SDOs).

Our structure is shown below together with our Participating and Observing members. All of TC204’s groups and convenors may be approached via the TC204 Secretariat.

TC204 Structure

TC 204 Structure

Scope of TC204 Working Groups

TC204's current active groups and their purposes are outlined below.

  • AG 2: Identifiers
  • AG 3: Operational improvement group
  • AG 4: Program coordination
  • AG 5: Publication and marketing review
  • AHG 2: ITS CyberSecurity
  • JWG 1: City data model — Transport
  • WG 1: Architecture
  • WG 3: ITS geographic data
  • WG 5: Fee and toll collection
  • WG 7: General fleet management and commercial/freight
  • WG 8: Public transport/emergency
  • WG 9: Integrated transport information, management and control
  • WG 10: Traveller information systems
  • WG 14: Driving automation and active safety systems
  • WG 16: Communications
  • WG 17: Nomadic Devices in ITS Systems
  • WG 18: Cooperative systems
  • WG 19: Mobility integration
  • WG 20: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence supporting ITS