Relevance of standards in general and especially of interface standards as well as their respective standardization processes has massively increased during last years. In view of this fact and regarding future tasks of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) convergence of formerly fixed boundaries in the fields of telecommunication, media and information technology becomes more and more indistinct. Equally in transport telematics there is an increasing demand in sustainable standard interface solutions to ensure interoperability of systems and their components. Such demand gets even intensified due to the proliferation of sensor systems additionally equipped with miniaturized chip elements. Correspondingly this is also applicable for automotive technology and its interconnection within cooperative transport and advanced driver assistance systems by means of C2X-communication. Standardization research is a comparably young research in Germany as well as worldwide. In order to manage the increasing data traffic in combination with faster innovation cycles, efficient standardization processes are required even more to reach sustainable benefit for traffic management out of comprehensive data exchange. Players in the standardization of open road transport telematics systems are particularly challenged how to organize such a standardization process in a suitable way. Research in the R&D-project 63.0013/2009/BASt supports administrative decision-making preparation concerning the future position of the government with reference to its backing and support of standardization activities on open systems in urban road transport telematics. Benefits and risks which have either already been scored or can be expected due to extended standardization are to be evaluated based on the standardization process which was started by so called OCIT (Open Communication Interface for Road Traffic Control Systems) and OTS (Open Traffic Systems) already in 1999 in Germany. Taking into account the standardization cluster OCTS (Open Communication Standards for Traffic Systems) established in November 2011 for future harmonization of open interface standardization, the upcoming influence factors and requirements by affine standardization activities as well as EU-guidelines, especially for cooperative ITS, are observed. (Author/publisher)
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