The scope of ISO/TR 17427, which is a technical report is an informative document to identify potential critical liability issues that C-ITS service provision may introduce; to consider strategies for how to control, limit or mitigate such liability issues; and to give pointers, where appropriate, to standards deliverables existing that provide specifications for all or some of these aspects, and to limit the risk of exposure to the financial consequences of liability issues.
The objective of ISO/TR 17427 is to raise awareness of and consideration of such issues. The purpose of ISO/TR 17427 is to identify potential critical liability issues that C-ITS service provision may introduce; to consider how to control, limit or mitigate such liability issues, and to limit the risk of exposure to the financial consequences of liability issues.
Note: ISO/TR 17427 does not provide specifications for solutions of these issues.
ISO/TR 17427 on cooperative ITS liability aspects is useful for:
Intelligent transport systems (ITS) are transport systems in which advanced information, communication, sensor, and control technologies, including the Internet, are applied to increase safety, sustainability, efficiency, and comfort. A distinguishing feature of ‘ITS’ are its communication with outside entities. Some ITS systems operate autonomously, for example ‘adaptive cruise control’ uses radar/lidar/and/or video to characterize the behaviour of the vehicle in front and adjust its vehicle speed accordingly. Cooperative Intelligent transport systems (C-ITS) are a group of ITS technologies where service provision is enabled by, or enhanced by, the use of ‘live’, present situation related, dynamic data/information from other entities of similar functionality (for example from one vehicle to another vehicle(s)), and/or between different elements of the transport network, including vehicles and infrastructure (for example from the vehicle to infrastructure managed system or from an infrastructure managed system to vehicle(s)).
C-ITS applications will need adequate ‘audit trails’ in order to trace causation. The so-called “human factors” will need to be carefully considered and taken into consideration. This means that manufacturers and services providers of C-ITS technology need to carefully consider the safety risks of their systems and qualify their risk carefully, and road network managers will need to assess the risk implications of providing infrastructure-based C-ITS solutions. We are also in a situation where expectations of system performance and liability implications are likely to change as C-ITS applications move from being advisory systems to overriding driver actions, and the liability issues are different between these types of system. ISO/TR 17427 is a ‘living document’ and as our experience with C-ITS develops, ISO/TR 17427 will be updated from time to time, as and when we see opportunities to improve ISO/TR 17427.
ISO/TR 17427-8:2015