Since January 2019, the NPRA (Norwegian Public Roads Administration) has been working on a project that aims to adapt the information exchange to DATEX II version 3.0. at national level in Norway.

In April 2020, a first version of "DATEX II v.3.0. Value Chain" went into production.

The value chain of DATEX II comprises:

Today, the 2020 Exchange specification is fully available and supports both Data Delivery and the CIS Business Scenario that supports the DATEX II version 3.x payload specification. After the first "Exchange 2018" version, the current Exchange 2020 specification is available on the DATEX II Academy.

The European DATEX II community has decided to align with and collaborate with parking industry stakeholders to revise the DATEX II parking model. A key factor in this important decision was the strong support demonstrated by parking operators, data platform and service providers for sharing common data via the Alliance for Parking Data Standards (APDS) technical specifications.

We are pleased to share that there is now extended user documentation available on the Collaborative ITS Services (CIS) Demonstrator.

This demonstrator shows how to implement and use the features that are part of the specification for Collaborative ITS Services that has been developed under the Exchange framework.

The CIS demonstrator documentation, now available in a modern, visual way, can be found here

Together, DATEX II and TN-ITS are taking on the challenge of interoperability of standards in the traffic management domain. By taking small steps, with a coalition of the willing, we aim to start improving the current situation. The focus in the first stage will be on developing semantical interoperability between DATEX II and TN-ITS within the scope of Management of Electronic Traffic Regulations (METR).

As part of the last DATEX II Steering Group meeting held in Athens, Vasilis Mizaras, senior ITS expert from the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport, made a presentation explaining the status and prospects of the DATEX II deployment of ITS in Greece.