PD CEN/TS 17400:2020

What is PD CEN/TS 17400 about?

PD CEN/TS 17400 assists you to implement urban intelligent transport systems (ITS) in a mixed vendor environment.

PD CEN/TS 17400 focuses on the principal aspects of urban Intelligent transport systems where vendor lock-in is recognized as a technical and financial problem: primarily centre-to-field communications and traffic management systems.

PD CEN/TS 17400 covers:

• Approaches to the management of mixed vendor environments (MVEs) by urban authorities, including mitigation and migration options
• Procedural and operational protocols to achieve interworking, using product/interface adaptation, translation products, replacement/reengineering, and other migration strategies
• Technical options for interworking multiple vendors' products
• Mechanisms to enable interoperability through automated translation between specifications, frameworks and product interfaces
• Review of principal approaches taken to date to implement these options in community frameworks and specifications

Who is PD CEN/TS 17400 for?

PD CEN/TS 17400 on intelligent transport systems is useful for:

• Urban authorities
• Implementers of intelligent transport systems
• Transport authorities
• Infrastructure managers
• Transport on demand service providers
• Managers involved with the structure of an MVE
• Automotive industries

Why should you use PD CEN/TS 17400?

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

PD CEN/TS 17400 provides you with the methodologies and translators to avoid vendor lock-in. It introduces suitable methodologies for system architecture design, making appropriate use of standards, and specifications to be used when translator systems are adopted.

The specifications specified in PD CEN/TS 17400  enable intelligent transport system (ITS) architects to develop concrete architectural concepts for mixed-manufacturer systems in order to achieve the migration of existing monolithic single manufacturer systems, by creating and delivering EU-wide mixed vendor environments (MVE) communication specifications designed to actively support the implementation of distributed and open system structures for regionally and nationally networked systems in the transport sector throughout the European Union (EU).

PD CEN/TS 17400 also provides you with a systematic approach for many aspects of Urban-ITS implementation, and its mixed vendor environment implementation. It provides you with a procedural model, to help implementers and managers involved in the structure of a mixed vendor environment and with the removal of vendor lock-in.