Division 1.2.2 HarmonisationF1

The Expert Group on urban ITS stressed that standardisation efforts should cover existing gaps, upgrade and complement existing standards.

Therefore the requested European standards and European standardisation deliverables should reuse, harmonise or interface as far as possible with the following existing standards, specifications and projects: the CIVITAS projects, CAPITAL CIVITAS ITS Advisory Group, Promoting Open Specifications and Standards in Europe (POSSE) project, OPTICITIES project, FREILOT project, Smart Cities and Communities Coordination Group, standardisation request M/453 on Cooperative Systems, the C-ITS platform, DATEX II Strategic and Technical Groups, the Urban Traffic Management Control programme (UTMC), the Open Traffic Systems City Association (OCA) and the Open Communication Interface for Road Traffic Control Systems (OCIT), FRAME project, Co-Cities project, European Digital Traffic Infrastructure Network for Intelligent Transport Systems (EDITS) project, European Bus System of the Future (EBSF) project, Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT), spatial ‘standardised’ data and geo standardisation, and existing national standards.

Against this background the requested European standards and European standardisation deliverables should provide consideration to the reuse, harmonisation or interface with existing reference data models, common data dictionaries and metadata structure requirements with a view to foster interoperability, consistency and continuity of services.