As the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) has been implemented in Taiwan's major cities, the connectivity of transportation centers becomes obviously difficult, because few centers are identical and are designed to work with other transportation centers. Since the major goal of promoting ITS is to achieve systems with interoperability and interchangeability, the old protocols using bit-level control seem obsolete. In order to prevent the situation where those centers develop protocols only for their needs and reduce the chance of compatibility, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) proposes protocol standardization projects, attempting to adopt the international ITS communication protocols to form new protocols suitable for local transportation environment. The Center-to-Center (C2C) project and Taiwan's National Transportation Communication for ITS Protocols (NTCIP-like) projects are proved to be successful in preparing the next generation of the communication protocols for ITS. (A*)
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