Technical Committee (TC) Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Activity Report 2023

Chair: Niels Peter Skov Andersen, Anemone Technology

Developing and maintaining standards, specifications and other deliverables to support the implementation of ITS Service provision for transport networks, vehicles and transport users, including interface aspects and multiple modes of transport and interoperability between systems.

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) enable smarter, more coordinated and efficient use of transport networks with the potential to increase safety for travellers and the public, minimize environmental impact and improve traffic management.

ETSI’s ITS Technical Committee (TC ITS) has primary responsibility to produce and maintain 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, but not including ITS application standards, radio matters, and EMC.

Scope of this work includes communication media, and associated physical layer, transport layer, network layer, security, lawful intercept, and the provision of generic web services. In addition, the committee develops conformance test specifications which are crucial for the commercial deployment of the technology and are closely involved in radio spectrum requirements for ITS.

During 2023 the committee continued its work on the ITS Release 2 framework. This intends to specify the structure of the Release 2 package, the principles for referencing between the ITS standards as well as general/common aspects of the Release 2 standards such as the context and ecosystem.

TC ITS

  • Technical Specification TS 103 938 V2.0.0 – Vehicular Communications; Basic Set of Applications; Local Dynamic Map (LDM); Release 2
  • Technical Specification TS 103 574 V2.0.0 - Congestion Control Mechanisms for C-V2X PC5 interface; Access layer part; Release 2
  • Technical Specification TS 102 894-1 V2.0.0 – Users and applications requirements; Part 1: Facility layer structure, functional requirements and specifications; Release 2
  • Technical Specification TS 102 723 – OSI cross-layer topics:
    • TS 102 723-5 V2.0.0 – Part 5: Interface between management entity and facilities layer; Release 2
    • TS 102 723-8 V2.0.0 – Part 8: Interface between security entity and network and transport layer; Release 2
    • TS 102 723-11 V2.0.0 – Part 11: Interface between networking and transport layer and facilities layer; Release 2

TC ITS WG1 – Application requirements and services

  • Technical Specification TS 103 900 V2.1.1 – Vehicular Communications; Basic Set of Applications; Cooperative Awareness Service; Release 2
  • Technical Report TR 103 832 V2.1.1 - Vehicular Communications; Basic Set of Applications; Study on ITS Support for Pre-Crash based Applications; Release 2
  • Technical Specification TS 103 324 V2.1.1 – Vehicular Communications; Basic Set of Applications; Collective Perception Service; Release 2
  • Technical Specification TS 103 300-3 V2.2.1 – Vulnerable Road Users (VRU) awareness; Part 3: Specification of VRU awareness basic service; Release 2
  • Technical Specification TS 102 894-2 V2.2.1 – Users and applications requirements; Part 2: Applications and facilities layer common data dictionary; Release 2

TC ITS WG3 – Transport and network

  • Technical Specification TS 103 836-4-3 V2.1.1 – Vehicular Communications; GeoNetworking; Part 4: Geographical addressing and forwarding for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint communications; Sub‑part 3: Media-dependent functionalities for NR-V2X PC5 and LTE-V2X PC5; Release 2

TC ITS WG4 – Media and medium related

  • Technical Specification TS 102 916 - Test specifications for mitigation techniques to avoid interference between Cooperative ITS‑G5 and TTT DSRC:

TC ITS WG5 – Security

  • Technical Specification TS 103 918 V2.1.1 – Security; Testing; ITS Misbehaviour Reporting; Interoperability tests specification; Release 2
  • Technical Specification TS 103 759 V2.1.1 – Security; Misbehaviour Reporting service; Release 2

During the year TC ITS continued to work in cooperation with ETSI TC RT on Road ITS and Urban Rail applications in the 5,9 GHz frequency band. The purpose of this work is to specify a solution applied in the ITS band (5 875‑5 925 MHz) to meet Urban Rail ITS and road ITS applications requirements. These activities are linked to the COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2020/1426 on the harmonized use of radio spectrum in the 5 875‑5 935 MHz frequency band for safety-related applications of ITS and repealing Decision 2008/671/EC.

Throughout 2023 TC ITS maintained its interaction with 3GPP regarding radio interfaces for C‑V2X technology and its integration into the ITS architecture; as well as ongoing liaison with bodies including IEEE (regarding IEEE 802.11 technology and its evolution), ISO (principally TC 204), CEN/CENELEC and the EC’s CONNECT, GROW and MOVE initiatives.

The committee also remained in close contact with the ITU-T Collaboration on ITS Communication Standards and the other participants in this global cooperation.

See the full list of TC ITS Work Items currently in development here.