ISO/TS 17426:2016

TECHNICAL ISO/TS
SPECIFICATION 17426
First edition
Intelligent transport systems —
Cooperative systems — Contextual
speeds
Systèmes intelligents de transport — Systèmes coopératifs — Vitesses
contextuelles
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ISO/TS 17426:2015(E)
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Contents Page
Foreword .iv
Introduction .v
1 Scope . 1
2 Conformance . 2
3 Normative references . 2
4 Terms and definitions . 2
5 Symbols and abbreviated terms . 3
6 Contextual Speeds: Architecture . 4
7 Contextual speeds: Use cases . 5
7.1 General . 5
7.2 Use case 1: Provision of mandatory speed limit information into vehicle – for
driver awareness purposes . 6
7.3 Use case 2 - Provision of advisory speed information into vehicle – for driver
awareness purposes .10
8 Contextual speeds: Roles and responsibilities .14
8.1 Scenarios for contextual speeds .14
8.2 System operation roles in scenario 7 .15
8.3 Possible actors in the Contextual Speed Information Service .15
9 Contextual speeds: Characteristics.16
10 Contextual speeds: General service requirements .16
11 Contextual speeds: Communication requirements .17
11.1 General .17
11.2 General communication requirements .18
11.2.1 General.18
11.2.2 ITS-S application processes of the Contextual Speed Application .18
11.2.3 Flow types of the Contextual Speed Application .18
11.2.4 Flow Type 1 of the Contextual Speed Application .19
11.2.5 Flow Type 2 of the Contextual Speed Application .19
11.2.6 Flow Type 3 of the Contextual Speed Application .20
11.2.7 Sources and Sink ITS stations of the Flow Types .21
11.2.8 Other general communication requirements .21
11.3 Application specific data element requirements .22
Annex A (normative) Contextual speeds: IVI Profile (Definition of CSM) .23
Bibliography .28
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Foreword
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Introduction
Traditional fixed speed limits have, in general, been set as the maximum mandatory speed that a vehicle
or a category of vehicles can travel at. Such speed limits are defined by the competent authority. Some
national authorities moderate mandatory speed limits when road or environment conditions change.
When road or environmental conditions change, the decision as to the most appropriate speed a driver
or rider must travel is, in general, left up to the individual vehicle driver. With the advent of Cooperative
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), it has become possible to provide better guidance to vehicle drivers
on what speed they can travel at when road, traffic, or environmental conditions are less than ideal.
This function is known as Contextual Speed Information Service.
Delivering Contextual Speed information to road users can improve road safety, support traffic
management, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In a Cooperative ITS environment, Contextual Speeds are context-dependent (e.g. changed due
to weather conditions), as well as time-specific and road section-specific speeds. Subject to local
regulations, they can be mandatory speed limits or advisory speeds.
All Cooperative ITS Services follow the same abstract structure of detection (of an event) including
pre-processing of the detected content, execution of the Service algorithm (processing of detected
content) and presentation or utilization of the Service result. Figure 1 summarizes and further
illustrates this process.
Content processing
Detection
Info service generation
Info service presentation
Figure 1 — General Cooperative ITS Service process (from ISO/TS 17427:2014, Figure A.6)
Based on this abstract process description, for any Cooperative ITS Service, a similar process description
applies to the Contextual Speed Information Service. Every single step in the process chain can be
executed by different actors or stakeholders. Execution of process elements by different stakeholders
results in a large number of possible potential scenarios. Additionally, the involvement of stakeholders
can be distinguished by spatial geography.
Assuming that there are two main stakeholder groups in Cooperative ITS, namely the Infrastructure
and the Vehicle, multiple combinations are possible, as every step can be delivered by a different
stakeholder group (see Figure 2).
Figure 2 — Possible scenarios — Simple
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The scenarios address different combinations; the basis for every scenario is one specific combination.
This Technical Specification addresses the scenario where detection, content pre-processing, and
information service generation is the responsibility of the infrastructure stakeholder. The direct
presentation of Contextual Speed information on the driver interface of the vehicle is out of the scope
of this Technical Specification. This Technical Specification therefore addresses only part of the whole
process (Scenario 7).
Within the context of Scenario 7, this Technical Specification addresses Use Case 1 “Provision of
mandatory speed limit information into vehicle – for driver awareness purposes” and Use Case 2
“Provision of advisory speed information into vehicle – for driver awareness purposes”.
This does not preclude other Use Cases or deployment models in later Technical Specification(s).
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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION ISO/TS 17426:2015(E)
Intelligent transport systems — Cooperative systems —
Contextual speeds
1 Scope
This Technical Specification
— specifies the Contextual Speed Information Service, namely the general requirements regarding the
provision of the Contextual Speed Information Service, the data flow supporting the service, and
the presentation of the service result,
— specifies the requirements to be fulfilled by the Contextual Speed Information Service,
— specifies the ITS Station (ITS-S) application processes of the vehicle ITS station, roadside ITS station,
central ITS station, and personal ITS station that are required to instantiate the Contextual Speed
Information Service,
— specifies sets of communication requirements and objectives (profiles) using the methods defined
in ISO 17423 to select the level of performance (best effort or real-time, etc.), confidence and security
(authentication, encryption, etc.) for each Contextual Speed Information Service communication
flow between ITS stations,
— selects relevant functions and procedures provided by the ITS station facilities layer (see
ISO 17429), and
— specifies messages, messages sets structure, content, and syntax to be used by the Contextual Speed
Information Service.
This Technical Specification considers the scenario for the transmission of Contextual Speed
information from the infrastructure/roadside to the vehicle, for onward presentation to the vehicle’s
driver. This scenario foresees that the calculation of Contextual Speed information is performed on the
Infrastructure side, not within the vehicle.
Mandatory speed limits or advisory speed recommendations are output of the Contextual Speed
Information Service which (in the scenario considered in this Technical Specification) is run by the
Road Operator in its Traffic Control Centre or comparable infrastructure (e.g. Roadside ITS Station). To
transfer this information to the vehicle (and therefore the driver) over the air (wireless communication),
defined messages are required. These messages are specified in this Technical Specification.
When Contextual Speed information arrives in the vehicle, further pre-processing might be necessary
before the Contextual Speed information, and, if available, additional explanations on speed limits
or recommendations, can be presented to the driver. This Technical Specification specifies the
requirements that need to be fulfilled when processing the messages. It does not specify how the vehicle
handles the incoming messages.
The production of information supporting this application, its qualification and its relevance are out of
the scope of this Technical Specification.
This Technical Specification addresses Use Case 1 “Provision of mandatory speed limit information into
vehicle – for driver awareness purposes” and Use Case 2 “Provision of advisory speed information into
vehicle – for driver awareness purposes”.
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2 Conformance
To claim conformance to this Technical Specification, all mandatory requirements shall be fulfilled by
the implementation under test.
NOTE 1 Conformance testing can be different for different roles/actors. This Technical Specification identifies
the requirements for a number of Protocol Implementation Conformance Statements (PICS) proforma, allowing
to claim conformance to defined subsets of ISO/TS 17426 requirements.
NOTE 2 This Technical Specification adopts the ISO/IEC 9646-7 approach for conformance testing
specifications (i.e. development of PICS proforma, TSS&TP, ATS, and PIXIT).
3 Normative references
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated
references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO 21217, Intelligent transport systems — Communications access for land mobiles (CALM) — Architecture
ISO 24102–3, Intelligent transport systems — Communications access for land mobiles (CALM) — ITS
station management — Part 3: Service access points
ISO/TS 17419, Intelligent transport systems — Cooperative systems — Classification and management of
ITS applications in a global context
ISO/TS 17423, Intelligent transport systems — Cooperative systems — ITS application requirements and
objectives for selection of communication profiles
ISO/TS 17425, Intelligent transport systems — Cooperative ITS — Data exchange specification for in-
vehicle presentation of external road and traffic related data
ISO/TS 17427, Intelligent transport systems — Cooperative systems — Roles and responsibilities in the
context of cooperative ITS based on architecture(s) for cooperative systems
ISO/TS 18750, Intelligent transport systems — Cooperative systems — Definition of a global concept for
Local Dynamic Maps
4 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO 21217, ISO 24102-3,
ISO/TS 17419, ISO/TS 17423, ISO/TS 17425, ISO/TS 17427, and the following apply.
4.1
advisory speed
speed set by an authority which it considers appropriate to the road, traffic, or environmental conditions
being experienced
4.2
advisory speed information
set of C-ITS data elements related to an advisory speed
4.3
C-ITS authority data set
set of C-ITS data elements describing policies or regulations
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4.4
contextual speed
context-dependent (e.g. weather conditions), as well as time-specific and road section-specific speed
Note 1 to entry: Subject to local regulations, a Contextual Speed may be a mandatory speed limit or an
advisory speed.
4.5
contextual speed information
set of C-ITS data elements related to a Contextual Speed
4.6
mandatory speed information
set of C-ITS data elements related to a mandatory speed limit (4.7)
4.7
mandatory speed limit
legally defined, maximum or minimum, speed limit for specific types or classes of vehicles or all vehicles
on a defined section of road
4.8
relevance zone
parts of the road network for which the contextual speed is valid
5 Symbols and abbreviated terms
ADU Application Data Unit
ATS Abstract Test Suite
BSMD Bounded Secured Managed Domain
C-ITS Cooperative ITS
CSM Contextual Speed Message
HMI Human Machine Interface
ICT Information Communications Technologies
ITS Intelligent Transport Systems
ITS-AID ITS Application Identifier
ITS-S ITS Station
ITS-SCU ITS-S Communication Unit
ITS-SU ITS-S Unit
LDM Local Dynamic Map
n.a. not applicable
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PICS Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement
PIXIT Protocol Implementation eXtra Information for Testing
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TSS&TP Test Suite Structure and Test Purposes
6 Contextual Speeds: Architecture
The architecture of the ITS station (ITS-S) specified in ISO 21217 is illustrated in Figure 3.
Figure 3 — Simplified ITS-S reference architecture (from ISO 21217)
The Contextual Speed Information Service is provided to users by execution of the Contextual Speed
Application. The Contextual Speed Application is an instantiation of the Contextual Speed Information
Service that involves the association of complementary ITS-S application processes.
In order to be able to install and execute these ITS-S application processes in an ITS station unit (ITS-
SU) operated as a Bounded Secured Managed Domain (BSMD) specified in ISO 21217, registration
procedures identified in ISO/TS 17419 shall be applied.
The Contextual Speed Application requires communications between these ITS-S application
processes residing in ITS station units. Such communications include the exchange of Contextual Speed
Messages (CSM).
In order to enable communications between ITS-S application processes residing in different ITS
Station Communication Units (ITS-SCU) prior to transmission of application data units (ADUs), each
ITS-S application process has to register at the ITS-S management and present its communication
requirements as specified in ISO/TS 17423. Required values to be presented for the ITS-S application
processes of the Contextual Speed Application are specified in Clause 11.
Upon this registration and presentation of communication requirements, the ITS-S management will
identify the most appropriate communication profile for each source of data and assign a “FlowID” to it
as specified in ISO 24102-6.
Communications requires features of the ITS-S facilities layer both for transmission and for reception
of ADUs as specified in ISO/TS 17429.
The Contextual Speed Application requires that their related ITS-S application processes provide
received geo-referenced and time-stamped information to a Local Dynamic Map (LDM) specified in
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ISO/TS 18750. The LDM is the key element to enable cooperative behaviour in an ITS-SU, i.e. the sharing
of data between applications.
The Contextual Speed Application requires retrieving LDM data elements either by a subscription
mechanism or by a query mechanism.
The Contextual Speed Application is uniquely identified by the registered “ITS Application Identifier”
(ITS-AID) specified in ISO/TS 17419.
NOTE Contextual Speed Application uses predefined messages from the ITS Message Set as uniquely
identified by the registered “ITS Message Set Identifier” (ITS-MsgSetID) specified in ISO/TS 17419. The values of
ITS-AID and ITS-MsgSetID will be assigned by the respective registration authority. The numbering of messages
in this ITS Message Set is as uniquely defined for this ITS Message Set.
7 Contextual speeds: Use cases
7.1 General
The Contextual Speed Information Service is provided to users by execution of the Contextual Speed
Application. The Contextual Speed Application provides information from a sending ITS station to an
ITS station in a vehicle. The sending ITS station is typically a roadside or a central ITS station. The
ITS station in a vehicle may either be a vehicle ITS station or a personal ITS station. The information
supported by the Contextual Speed Application concerns either static or dynamic advisory speed
guidance or mandatory speed limits. This information is typically provided by road/traffic managers
or authorized service providers to drivers in order to improve the road safety, reduce environmental
impact, and enhance the traffic flow.
NOTE Traditionally, much of this information is available on fixed plate road traffic signs or variable displays
at the roadside or mounted above or to the side of specific lanes.
As an element of the Contextual Speed Information Service is the ability to transfer and use information
from an external environment into the vehicle for subsequent presentation, it is essential that the
service provides stable, robust, and reproducible results given a specified input condition especially in
respect of mandatory speed limits.
Furthermore, some basic safety and legal constraints are necessary, such that advisory speed outputs
shall never exceed the maximum mandatory speed limit (for the vehicle class, driver qualifications
and other legally enforceable conditions that may apply) for defined identifiable sections of road.
Similarly, the advisory speed shall never be less than a minimum mandatory speed limit (for legally
enforceable conditions).
Both mandatory and advisory speed outputs shall relate to defined, repeatable, resolvable locations.
Where the Contextual Speed Information Service is used to convey mandatory speed limits, the
application service provider shall ensure robust recording of mandatory speed limit information
disseminated.
NOTE Advisory speed can be provided for eco-driving (ecologic and economic) with the objective to reduce
pollution and energy consumption costs.
The use cases identified are the following:
— Use case 1: Provision of mandatory speed limit information into vehicle – for driver awareness
purposes;
— Use case 2: Provision of advisory speed information into vehicle – for driver awareness purposes.
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Road side ITS station
Vehicle ITS station
Figure 4 — Display of Contextual Speed information (courtesy Renault)
7.2 Use case 1: Provision of mandatory speed limit information into vehicle – for driver
awareness purposes
Table 1 gives details of the Use case 1 for provision of mandatory speed limit information into vehicle –
for driver awareness purposes.
Table 1 — Use Case 1: Provision of mandatory speed limit information into vehicle – for driver
awareness purposes
Use case name Provision of mandatory speed limit information into vehicle – for driver awareness
purposes
Use case description This use case foresees the Contextual Speed Information Service providing information
from a sending ITS station (typically a roadside or central ITS station) to an ITS station
in a vehicle (typically a vehicle ITS station or a personal ITS station) concerning either
static or dynamic mandatory speed limits.
This information is presented through the vehicle’s machine to human interface (HMI) to
warn the vehicle’s driver if a maximum speed limit is being exceeded (with user defined
buffer) or that a minimum speed limit is not being achieved (with user defined buffer).
This information shall be provided by an OEM or Content Service Provider (see Clause 8)
as an authorized source. This source may often be road/traffic managers or authorized
service providers. The Contextual Speed information is presented to drivers in order
to improve the road safety, reduce environmental impact, and enhance the traffic flow.
Use case scope The scope of this Use Case is the definition of the exchange from an ITS station
(roadside or central ITS station) to an ITS station in a vehicle – for the provision
of information concerning mandatory speed limit(s) into the vehicle – for driver
awareness purposes.
It does not include the exchanges of data between the sending ITS station and any
other source systems, or vice versa; the mechanism for production of the Contex-
tual Speed Message; or any actions taken by the vehicle’s systems on receipt of the
Contextual Speed Message.
Target system release Cooperative ITS – Infrastructure-to-Vehicle applications
a
Aftermarket stakeholders are included.
b
Quality assurance of the base speed limit data are vital to the correct performance of this application. Quality assurance
procedures for this data are outside the scope of this Technical Specification.
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Table 1 (continued)
Use case name Provision of mandatory speed limit information into vehicle – for driver awareness
purposes
Generality/abstraction High-level abstract
level
a
Use case stakeholders — Road administrations
— Police and enforcement administrations
— Automotive manufacturers and their supply chain
— Radio spectrum regulators
— Broadcast/RF industry
— Drivers
— Manufacturers of roadside and central station equipment
— Other authorized government departments, agencies or agents
— Road operators and traffic managers
Use case goal To correctly provide suitable contextual information on mandatory speed limits.
Use case assumptions — Methods for ensuring the accuracy of the context for mandatory speed limit
information can be ensured. Measures of accuracy include timeliness, representa-
tion of physical relevance of speed limit information, applicability to vehicle type/
class, value of the speed limit.
— Data exchange between the sending ITS station (typically a roadside/central ITS
station) and the ITS station in the target vehicle(s) is successfully completed in a
timely manner.
— The positional relevance of a speed limit on creation suitably maps to the vehi-
cles cognisant of position to exceed defined quality requirements.
— Suitable fail-safe mechanisms will be put in place of areas of non-reception of
inform
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