ETSI TC ITS NORMAPME Mirror Committee

This is the NORMAPME Mirror Committee for ETSI TC on Intelligent Transport Systems. The Mirror Committee is the group of SMEs that support the NORMAPME expert in presenting the views of SMEs during the drafting of standard.

In October 2009, the European Commission issued a standardisation mandate on Intelligent Transport System to the European standardisation organisations, notably to ensure interoperability of European standards on ITS. The mandate has been accepted by CEN and ETSI, which are sharing the standardisation work.

The scope of the ETSI TC ITS is the following:

.    Development and maintenance of Standards, Specifications and other deliverables to support the development and implementation of ITS Service provision across the network, for transport networks, vehicles and transport users, including interface aspects and multiple modes of transport and interoperability between systems.

.     Scope includes communication media, and associated physical layer, transport layer, network layer, security, lawful intercept and the provision of generic web services.

SMEs are assessed to represent a share of the mechatronic sector similar to the share of SMEs in fine mechanics, which is more than 90%. Furthermore, not only transportation is a particularly vast sector, which has a strong influence on almost all sectors; standardisation of ITS will also affect SMEs as services providers if the commercial prospects of the platforms of ITS are not open.

Overall, standardisation of ITS have a very far reaching potential. ITS will affect many aspects of our society.

SMEs will need transparency in relation to Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) in ITS standards; furthermore, ITS technologies will provide a platform that should remain open in order not to lock out SMEs as service providers.

Important discussion documents, such as draft standards, can be found under [All documents].

The group forum is where Mirror Committee members can discuss work in progress.

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This Mirror Committee is managed by NORMAPME expert Mr Johann Steszgal (johann.steszgal@steszgal.at ) from Steszgal IT GmbH (see www.steszgal.at), and by Elisabeth Tryselius (e.tryselius@normapme.com).