Developing connected vehicles and intelligent transport systems standards
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Developing connected vehicles and intelligent transport systems standards

BSI
BSI
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19 Jul 2021

The connected car communicates with other vehicles and surrounding infrastructure.

It can transfer data on aspects such as driving conditions, vehicle status, and cargo monitoring; sending out and receiving information on everything from traffic signal timing to what variable message signs are displaying at the roadside and the status of multiple neighboring connected vehicles.

Cars are perhaps the most complex ‘mobile’ devices that people own and one of the biggest challenges is in ensuring that a vehicle’s connectivity remains unbroken, wherever in the world, it is being driven. This means that the industry needs to look beyond regional and national levels and work together globally to make sure its products have the widest possible reach.

Why are Intelligent Transport Systems Needed?

Intelligent transportation systems have many benefits.

They are needed because:

  • Currently, it is not possible to build enough new roads or to meet the demand

  •  To make the transportation system more efficient, secure, and safer through information, communications, and control technologies

  • To improve the attractiveness of public transport

  • To tackle rising congestion which increases travel times and industry costs

  •  To reduce the environmental impacts of transport

  • To lower accident rates

Intelligent transportation systems include a wide range of applications that process and share information to ease congestion, improve traffic management, minimize environmental impact and increase the benefits of transportation to commercial users and the public in general.

To read more on the topic of Sustainability in the Automotive Industry, click here.

Building the Automotive Standards and Infrastructure of the Future

There is much international discussion and teamwork around developing standards for the connected vehicle, with important and ongoing collaboration between several standard development organizations (BSI, ISO, ITU, CEN, ETSI, SAE, IEEE) to provide a rich landscape of appropriate standards.

Predicting the future is not easy.

In an ideal world, infrastructures will have the capacity to communicate with all vehicles on the road at any one time. However, although continuous connectivity is the ultimate goal, there is a pressing need to develop technology that allows breaks in connectivity without affecting safety or performance.

Key Intelligent Transport Systems Standards

The habits of over 100 years of driving are about to change drastically and this will have major implications for wider society.

Motoring legislation and liability laws will need to be adapted around new systems and the public will need reassurance. And it is by working together, across country boundaries, to enrich existing and develop new international standards that the industry can clearly demonstrate it has the public’s safety and best interests at heart.

BSI offers standards for all types of communications in and between vehicles and fixed locations. These include:

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To ensure your automotive business is ready for the challenges of tomorrow, shop these key intelligent transport systems standards today.

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