Glossary

PRECIOSA has assembled a glossary of terms relevant to the project objectives.  They are presented here in two sections:

Glossary of ITS Terminology

Contents 

A BC D
EF
G
H
I
J
K
LM
N
O
PQR
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

References

Definitions

A

Algorithm level 
Consisting of the design of cryptographic primitives (such as block ciphers and hash functions) and application-specific algorithms used at the protocol level.
Architecture level
Consisting of secure hardware/software partitioning, execution platform features and architecture tactics to prevent, tolerate or remove faults.
Automatic emergency call
see "eCall"

B

C

Collision avoidance
Automatic control of vehicle movements based on detection of potential obstacles in relation to the predicted trajectory of the vehicle.[1]
Congestion warning
Warning of detected or predicted congestion on a certain part of the road network.[1]
Co-operative systems
Co-operative systems are Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) based on vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communications to improve efficiency of the transport systems and in the safety of all road users.[2]
Co-operative Intelligent Transportation System (cITS)[3]
see "Co-operative systems"

D

Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC)
A short to medium range communications service that supports both Public Safety and Private operations in roadside to vehicle and vehicle to vehicle communication environments.[4]
Driver profiling
Observation, recording and analysis of the characteristics of the behavior of a driver during a certain time period.[1]

E

eCall
An emergency call either generated manually by vehicle occupants or automatically via activation of in-vehicle sensors when an accident occurs.[5]
Electronic license plate
An electronic vehicle identity, that can be accessed from outside a moving vehicle.[1]
Electronic number plate
see "Electronic license plate"
Electronic toll collection (ETC)
Toll collection by electronic means, e.g. based on smart cards or electronic tags. [1]
e-ticketing
The activities of issuing and delivering payment means and related electronic payment mediums and the collection of related fees. [1]
Enhanced floating car data (EFCD)
High-quality traffic and safety information services based on floating car data.[6]

F

Fleet management
Planning, monitoring, controlling and evaluating operations of a vehicle fleet, including the drivers. [1]
Floating car data (FCD)
Information about current traffic situation from vehicles that serve as mobile data collection devices.[7]
Functional architecture
A description of the logical structure of the subfunctions of a system and the information exchange between them.[1]

G

H

Hazard warning
Warning to drivers of a detected or predicted hazard on a certain part of the road network.[1]

I

Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)
The integration of information and communications technology with transport infrastructure, vehicles and users.[8]
In-vehicle unit
see "On-board unit"

J

K

L

Lane change assistance
Guidance to a driver in order to perform safe lane changing.[1]
Lane departure warning
see "Lane change assistance"
Logical architecture
see "Functional architecture"

M

Map updating
Provision of new or revised information to a digital road map.[1]
Merge collision warning
see "Lane change assistance"
Mobility management
Management of transport demand and traffic flows (people, vehicles and goods) either by information, education and motivation of transport customers, by laws, taxation, enforcement, physical planning or by traffic management.[1]
Multimodal transport
Transport of people or goods by more than one mode of transport during a single journey.[1]

N

Navigation
Positioning and determination of the direction to follow to a given destination. [1]

O

On-board unit (OBU)
??Equipment inside the vehicle or attached to it.[1]
OD estimation
see "Origin-destination estimation"
On-board equipment (OBE)
see "On-board unit"
Operator
An organization responsible for operating a system.[1]
Origin-destination estimation
Estimation of the number of vehicle or person trips between zones.[1]

P

Platooning
Vehicles traveling together as a group, either voluntarily or involuntarily.[1]
Positioning
Determination of the geographical position of something. [1]
Probe vehicle data
see "Floating car data"

Q

Queue warning
Warning of a detected or predicted queue on a certain road section.[1]

R

Road-side unit (RSU)
A wireless access point placed next to a street that is capable of communicating with vehicles.
Road surface monitoring
Data collection and status assessment of the current road surface conditions such as friction and roughness.[1]
Route computation
Calculation of relevant routes based on certain criteria.[1]

S

Service provider
Entity providing a service.
Session
The complete interaction between two communication devices.
Subscriber
A person or an organization having entered a contract with a service provider.
System architecture
A set of concepts and rules describing the inter-relationship between entities in the entire system, independent of the hardware and software environment.[1]
System specification
A detailed functional and technical description of a system.[1]

T

Traffic Message Channel (TMC)
Digital channel used to provide silent, coded messages to in-vehicle applications in order to display route and traffic information in a user's native language.[8]
Traffic Management Center (TMC)
see "Transportation Management Center (TMC)"
Traffic Operations Center (TOC)
see "Transportation Management Center (TMC)"
Transportation Management Center (TMC)
An organization owned or operated by a single agency or multiple transportation agencies and perform an array of functions including data acquisition, command and control, computing, and communications for many types of ITS applications.[9]

U

User
A person or an organization using transport or transport related services.[1]

V

V2X
Vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure, and vehicle-to-anything communications.
Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications
The communications among vehicles.
Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications
The communications between a vehicle and a road-side unit.
V2X reference architecture
A description of V2X communication-based ITS architecture for the designing and development purpose. The architecture divides ITS into three domains: vehicle domain, access domain, and back-end domain.

W

X

Y

Z

References

  1. Road Transport ITS Terminology, By Nordic Road Association Technical Committee no. 53
  2. About Cooperative Systems, Cooperative Vehicle Infrastructure Systems (CVIS)
  3. PRECIOSA terminology
  4. DSRC: Dedicated Short Range Communication, Armstrong Consulting
  5. eSafety initiative
  6. Enhanced Floating Car Data, Global System for Telematics (GST)
  7. Floating Car Data, PTV AG
  8. ITS Glossary, ERTICO ITS Europe
  9. Transportation Management Center, Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA)
 


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