Standards for Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C‐ITS)

This chapter addresses the question of standardized technologies enabling the exchange of data between vehicles, other road users, road infrastructure, urban infrastructure, traffic control centers and services management platforms in the cloud. Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C‐ITS) technologies include long‐range centralized communication technologies based on the cellular network, geo‐localized data organization functionalities and many others, which are being standardized. To ensure interoperability, these technologies are grouped together and integrated into a unified communication architecture whose motivations, origins, use cases and vast sets of features will be further explained in this chapter. The ITS station architecture optimally combines different technological bricks within a unified architecture for all connected & cooperative mobility uses. To speed up deployment, it is necessary to equip vehicles from captive fleets to circulate at a specific area and to simultaneously deploy equipment in the road infrastructure in notable places where the first equipped vehicle is able to benefit from the technology.