Chapter 1 Introduction: intelligent vehicular communications

1.3
VEHICULAR NETWORK STANDARDIZATION
To achieve safety in vehicular network management and to coordinate the diverse standards in the 
vehicular network, the recent developments in the Wireless Communication Technology and ITS have 
been combined. The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) and ETSI extending the worldwide 
harmonized standards for cooperative-ITS (C-ITS), these practices continue to emerge. In addition to 
that, Japan took this initiative along with ETSI and USDOT. Furthermore, countries such as Australia 

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1.3 
VEHICULAR NETwORk STANDARDIzATION
and South Korea want to follow this. With significant advances in alternative fuels and connected 
vehicles reworking automobile transportation, it is time to unify the association for nursing an intelli-
gent future in transportation worldwide and engulf cross-disciplinary approach to shorten the consider-
able time required to promote transportation standards.
1.3.1
EUROPEAN ITS STANDARDS INITIATIVES
1.3.1.1 European Committee for Standardization (CEN)
ITS can contribute to a cleaner, safer, and more efficient transport system. They use ICT in order to 
control traffic flow, collect road tolls (electronic fee collection, EFC), provide timely traffic and safety 
information, notify emergency personnel about accidents (eCall), and give priority to emergency ve-
hicles.
The European Commission has laid down the legal framework in order to accelerate the deployment 
of ITS across Europe (Directive 2010/40/EU) and has requested the European standardization organi-
zations to develop and adopt European standards in support of this framework (EC M/453), in order to 
ensure interoperability across countries. European standards and technical specifications in the domain 
of ITS are being developed by the CEN Technical Committee “Intelligent Transport Systems” (CEN/
TC 278). These standards cover a variety of aspects including: cooperative systems, travel and traffic 
information, route guidance and navigation, public transport, emergency vehicles, and EFC. CEN and 
CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization) cooperate closely with ETSI 
and ISO in order to ensure a coherent approach to standardization on this topic. In 2015, CEN is ex-
pected to adopt European standards regarding the eCall system, which allows emergency services to be 
notified automatically in the event of a traffic accident (EN 15722 and EN 16072). It will also publish 
a technical specification relating to EFC, that is, secure monitoring for autonomous toll systems (CEN/
TS 16702-2). In addition, a major programming exercise will be undertaken in relation to ITS involving 
a wide range of relevant partners such as UITP, EUROCITIES, and so forth. Furthermore, major initia-
tives are carried out in relation to C-ITS with UITP, EUROCITIES, and so forth. 
Table 1.2
 illustrates 
the work group CEN/TC 278 and its applications.