Proposal of Developing Standards for Public Transport

From ISO/TC204/WG8 Pacific Rim Economies

At 29th APEC Transportation Working Group Meeting

Taipei, Chinese Taipei9-13 July 2007

Topics

Background ISO TC 204 WG 8 Standard Interests APEC Standard Interests Differences between APEC and ISO Proposed Standards Development

Role for APEC Intermodal & Intelligent Transport Group

Background

ISO Technical Committee 204 Working Group 8 (ISO TC 204 WG 8) Initiated in 1999 Original representatives from Pacific

Rim economies: Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, and the US

ISO TC 204 WG 8 Standard Interests Accomplishments since 1999

Integrated Fare Management System Architecture (Part 1)

Pre-emption and Prioritization Signal Systems for Emergency and Public Transport Vehicles (PRESTO)

Current Standard Working Items IFMS, part 2 on Defining a Set of

Rules

ISO Proposed Technical Reports (for Fall 2007-Spring 2008)

Multi-application public transport payment methods opportunities

Potential international standards to help the international traveler

International standards needed to manage public transport aspects of man-made and natural disasters

Catalog of Information / Interface Standards used throughout the world

APEC and Pacific Rim Economy Standard Interests (2004)

Reference Model Architecture Integrated service domains

Numbering System for Public Transport Transit Communications Interface Profiles

(TCIP) Passenger information and spatial referencing

PRESTO Transit Signal Priority Emergency Preemption

APEC and Pacific Rim Economy Standard Interests (2004) cont.

Interoperable fare media (proximity cards, financial elements)

Talking Signs BRT Best Practices Collision Avoidance Public Transport Vehicle Area Network Medium and Long Range

communications (CALM)

New Direction for ISOService Invocation Information Transfer

Implementa-tion specifications[how]

Interface:TCIP Profile Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS)

Encoding:TCIP Annex E XML Schema[Optional: narrowband encoding]

Abstract model[what]

Behavior:TCIP Message Patterns (Volume I Section 7)

Content:Transmodel Version 5.1

Resolution to Restrict Scope of Development Efforts

“WG8 agreed that different levels of standardization are required. On the ISO level general requirements, principles and guidance should be described in ISO standardization documents (standard, technical specification and technical report).

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Resolution to Restrict Scope of Development Efforts

“…Technical and specification-based detail standard should be defined not in the international level but in a greater regional or national level, provided that all the commercial matters are agreed among stakeholders in the area.”

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WG 8 and APEC Priority Differences APEC economies focus on implementation /

interoperable standards ISO focus on general requirements,

principles, guidance

WG 8 suggests that implementation standards are the domain of “regional” organizations

APEC is the Pacific Rim economic regional organization

APEC as a Standard Development “organization”

Standard development meets APEC mission “contribute to and facilitate

implementation of an efficient, integrated intermodal transportation system”

Standards enable implementation of integrated systems

Models for APEC Models of commercial organizations

developing standards & specifications through “user groups” Open Geospatial Consoritum (OGC) Organization for the Advancement of

Structured Information Standards (OASIS) International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) American Public Transportation Association

(APTA) Working with SAE, IEEE

Proposal for APEC

“We recommend the initiation of standard development activities related to public transport as part of the APEC ITS Transportation Committee.”

ISO delegations from Canada, Japan, Korea, US