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A Word from the President of the
Transit Standards Consortium:
The Transit Standards Consortium is an
independent, non-profit association dedicated to facilitating development,
testing, maintenance and training in the use of critical enabling standards for
the transit industry.
When
you joined TSC, you joined a dynamic community of transit colleagues and partner
organizations who seek ways of incorporating standards into their everyday
work. TSC serves as a forum for all of
us to learn about and get access to the very latest in standards directly
applicable to every aspect of transit planning, operations, safety, security,
design, construction and reporting.
Working
together with our alliance partners, we identify needed standards and help
their members find ways to develop, test, maintain and use them. We do this by sponsoring research, conducting
education and training, and by hosting national teleconferences on urgent
issues related to emerging transit standards.
We’ve
been serving you and the transit community since 1998. We welcome your participation.
--Richard
C. Hodges, TSC President
TSC’s Next National
Teleconference on Emerging Standards for Transit Security and Homeland Defense
to focus on Security for Control Systems in Transit
The
Transit Standards Consortium
will be hosting an important National Teleconference on “Security for Control Systems in Transit” on
TSC Outreach and Training Courses
Taught at the
Three
TSC Outreach and Training courses were taught last week at the LACMTA: A High Level Introduction to ITS and Standards
for Decision Makers; Transit Area Vehicle Networks: Why Vehicle Area Networks
Are an Important Investment in a Constantly Changing World of Technology; and
Transit Area Vehicle Networks: Utilizing Smart Bus Technologies in an ITS
Environment. The TSC courses were
subsidized in part by the Federal Transit Administration. For more information on how your agency can
host or attend future Transit ITS Standards Outreach and Training Courses,
contact Richard Cox, TSC Outreach and Training Program Manager at rcox@sae.org.
NTCIP Transit Communications Interface
Profiles (TCIP) Draft Amendments Available for User Comments
NTCIP Standards
Bulletin B0082 reports that in October 2002, the Joint Committee on the National
Transportation Communications for ITS Protocols (NTCIP) accepted nine TCIP
documents as User Comment Draft Amendments.
AASHTO, ITE, and NEMA are distributing copies to their members for
review and comment. All interested parties are invited to comment.
The user comment
drafts include:
NTCIP 1400, TCIP Framework Standard,
Amendment 1
NTCIP 1401, TCIP Common Public
Transportation (CPT) Objects, Amendment 1
NTCIP 1402, TCIP Incident Management
(IM) Objects, Amendment 1
NTCIP 1403, TCIP Passenger Information
(PI) Objects, Amendment 1
NTCIP 1404, TCIP Scheduling/Runcutting
(SCH) Objects, Amendment 1
NTCIP 1405, TCIP Spatial Representation
(SP) Objects, Amendment 1
NTCIP 1406, TCIP On-Board (
NTCIP 1407,
NTCIP 1408, TCIP Fare Collection (FC)
Objects, Amendment 1
See the NTCIP
website (www.ntcip.org
>> News >> Current News Articles) for a copy of the NTCIP Standards
Bulletin. The User Comment Draft
Amendments are available in the NTCIP Web site Library. See the table of Document Links, 1400 thru
1408.
The TCIP is the
Transit Communications Interface Profiles, which is part of the NTCIP family of
standards. The amendments make various changes, such as the elimination of
error codes from lists of code types. The amendments incorporate changes
reported from several early deployers of the TCIP objects, including the
CalPoly APTS in
All interested
parties are invited to PLEASE COMMENT by
For more
information, please contact Dr. Isaac Takyi (NYC Transit Authority), itakyi@nyct.com,
or Polly Okunieff, pokunieff@sasi-technology.com,
or Bruce Schopp (NTCIP Coordinator), ntcip@nema.org.
ITS
The key to the
evolution of ITS and surface transportation is more and better data to enhance
transportation system operations, providing better information to users, and
improving the safety of transportation system users. And the answer is an integrated network of
transportation information (INTI.)
Attend ITS
ITS Standards Outreach,
Education and Training (OET) Courses 2003
The
Institute of Transportation Engineers and the Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS) Standards Outreach, Education and Training Public Sector Users
Advisory Group (UAG), in conjunction with AASHTO, NEMA, AMPO, IEEE, SAE and ITS
APTA Announces Program Plan for
TCIP Standards Development and Deployment
The American
Public Transportation Association recently announced a Program Plan for
completing the development of the Transit Communications Interface Profiles
(TCIP) standards and initiating TCIP deployment within the transit
industry. The effort is funded by the
Federal Transit Administration. For
information, contact Louis F. Sanders, Director, APTA Research and Technology LSanders@apta.com.
Transit Standards Newsletter
Copyright © 2003 Transit Standards
Consortium, Inc.
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Standards Consortium, Inc., an independent, non-profit, IRS 501 (c) (3)
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