# Presentation: 391015

## Mike Schagrin

**Standards Program Coordinator**

- FHWA National Meeting
- May 8, 2000
- Washington, D.C.

**ITS Standards**

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## What Are ITS Standards? 

## Background

- Accelerate “...development of standards and protocols to promote and ensure interoperability in the implementation of ITS technologies...” [TEA-21]
- Facilitates mix and match of traffic control devices, such as signal controllers or dynamic message signs
- Easier communication between traffic management centers
- Activities are based upon the National ITS Architecture
- traffic control and management, transit operations, commercial vehicle operations, etc.
- Technical standards alone won’t ensure interoperability
- IAG toll agreement

## Who’s Involved

- AASHTO
- ITE
- SAE
- IEEE
- ASTM
- NEMA

## US DOT’s Standards Program

- Development
- Testing
- Outreach, education, and technical assistance
- Policy support

## Development

- Purpose is to accelerate the typically lengthy volunteer process in developing standards
- The formal program has been in place since January 1996
- Most of the work is based upon the National ITS Architecture
- We’re a significant way through the development of the original list of 80
- about half are already completed with the other half to be completed by next year
- As new functions are added to the architecture additional standards may be needed

## Testing

- Purpose is to prove out the standards in a real world  and provide a better understanding of how they work
- We expect to test about 50 of the original 80 standards
- We’ve learned a lot from our 1st test on dynamic message signs that was just recently completed
- customizing affects interchangeability
- simply stating use of NTCIP in projects is not enough

## Outreach, Education, and Technical Assistance

- Purpose is to support understanding and application, as well as provide deployment assistance
- A number of products are currently available and under development
- Spring mailing
- Electronic Document Library (EDL)
- Standards website: www.its.dot.gov/standard/standard.htm
- Standards peer-to-peer program has been started up
- We’re trying to determine what the field staff need to know and how to best help them to become knowledgeable
- Field staff workshop in planning stages
- Training courses being developed

## Policy Support

- The purpose is to support implementing the requirements of TEA-21
- identification of critical standards
- rulemaking for conformity with published standards
- Above and beyond the rulemaking for architecture and standards policy, a separate rulemaking process is necessary before use of standards is required
- Before any rulemaking activity will be undertaken by FHWA, a number of things need to happen
- Standard is approved by the standards development organization
- Testing
- Assessment of readiness
- Rulemaking

## What Do Division Offices Need to Know

- Using NTCIP as an example:
- When are NTCIP standards applicable?
- Which NTCIP standards need to be used?
- Is it a smart investment/what are the trade-offs?
- What does an NTCIP standard/specification look like?
- Who’s using NTCIP and what have been the successes and failures?
- Where to go for more detailed information?

## What We’re Doing to Help

- Outreach Materials (everything is available through the ITS JPO standards website)
- Availability of standards
- Lessons learned and case studies
- Deployment contact information
- Test reports
- Fact sheets
- User guides
- Sample procurement specs
- Training Courses and workshops
- NTCIP is the 1st priority (overview, signal controller, center to center, dynamic message signs)
- Technical Assistance

## Challenges

- How to best educate and utilize our field staff for standards support.
- How to encourage local jurisdictions who don’t receive federally funding to utilize ITS standards and provide for a seamless system to the driving community.
- How to operate in a rapidly changing information technology environment.