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What should be well understood in the DATEX II specification environment is that DATEX II is a set of specifications that deals with the modeling of information content related to road and travel information aimed at communication between Traffic Control Centres, Traffic Information Centres and Service Providers. These parties exchange information in order to be aware of the real-time conditions of the …

The Exchange 2020 specification supporting DATEX II v3 is available now! Read More »

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) …

DATEX II has chosen APDS as core for its parkingdata standard Read More »

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 …

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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. The presentation was structured in four main …

“Status and prospects for DATEX II compliant deployment of ITS in Greece” – ITS Hellas Read More »

One of the sessions at the 2019 Digital Transport Days in Helsinki focused on (the future of) National Access Points in Europe: ‘Building a data layer: Network of national (data) access points -NAP’. The idea of launching a bottom-up group of NAPs and National Bodies (NBs) was presented by EU EIP expert Timo Hoffmann, with the …

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Parts 4 (VMS) and 5 (Measured and elaborated data) of the DATEX II standard EN 16157 are now entering CEN “enquiry” – the last stage at which technical comments can be made, through national standards bodies. Comment resolution will allow a DATEX II release (referred to as 3.1) in Spring 2020 to include the version …

Progress on DATEX II data model standards Read More »

With the collaboration of DATEX II and the C-Roads Platform, two major European initiatives for harmonisation join forces against the background of emerging cooperative intelligent transport services (C-ITS). Both of them have used various opportunities to demonstrate their technical and strategic importance in increasing the safety and efficiency of transport in Europe and beyond. With …

European harmonisation of C-ITS taken to the next level Read More »