Australia was an early adopter of CEN dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) outside Europe. A few years ago, Australia declared that CEN DSRC would also be an Australian national standard. The users and authorities selected CEN standards with the stated goal to achieve: Interoperability; Non-proprietary technology; Flexibility in their intelligent transportation systems/electronic toll collection (ITS/ETC) system applications; and Real competition from manufacturers. To supplement these standards, Australia has written its own ETC interoperability standard. The target of the national Standard is to specify and provide the electronic tolling and parking industry with a national set of standards for electronic fee collection systems in order to establish interoperability across all tollways and vehicle to roadside applications in Australia. The first implementation of this is on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. This paper gives the impressions from the interoperability process as well as the lessons learned from the viewpoint of one of the manufacturers involved.
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