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This is a site dedicated to the technical support of those working in the area of developing and using standards for ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems). It provides resources for a variety of deployments who need access to technical information in this area. It provides drafts of standards, released standards, and critical source code in ASN, XML, XSD, WSDL as well as various reference documents required by builders. It is operated as a service by SubCarrier Systems Corp (SCSC) for the benefit of its clients.

Note: Many parts of this site are now password protected and limited to SCSC client use. This is due to a lack of support from the SDOs that depended on it but did not care to cover the operating costs. If you are a State DOT and have made an RFP that depended on the content of this this site, such as the ITS schema repository, then please contact us to make arrangements to provide you with any critical needed information.

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Popular Places on the ITSware Site

The ITS Standards Forum
     Incident Management Standards                (IEEE IM)
     Advanced Traveler Information Stds          (SAE ATIS)
     Dedicated Short Range Communications (IEEE & SAE DSRC)
     Traffic Management Stds                              (ITE TMDD)
     Transit Management Stds                            (APTA TCIP)
     Archiving Data Services Stds                       (ASTM ADUS)
     Intelligent Traveler Phrase Sets              (SAE ITIS)
     Location Referencing Stds                           (SAE LRMS)

This is the premier place to ask questions and get answers about how the standards are to work and how they work with each other. Supported by all the relevant standards developing communities of ITS, this resource is the place to seek for an answer to any technical questions. It also the only place where you will find them all together and be able to see how they are intended to work that way. Membership is free, (but you need a real email). Many forums are hidden unless you join and are logged-in. A great many white papers, proposed standards drafts, and code fragment can be found here.

The XML Schema Repository (Direct file system by FADD)
A Useful ReadMe (ReadMe file for first time users)

The repository is a place where you can get the standards both in-draft form and when adopted, in their XML forms along with the supporting standards of other effort needed to implement them. The XML here is mounted in a machine-readable form with proper linkages to other XML schemas so that your can point you favorite tool to directly at it and process complete schema sets. You can also download what you find here, although in some cases you need to secure legal rights to the printed documentation from its owner. Where the standards developer allows it, the actual document in a Word and PDF formats is also posted. Source code for ASN.1 listing can also be found here. As new standards are issued and revised, and greater integration is achieved between the efforts, the results can always be found here. A growing number of deployment schema sets can also be found here as well.

The Mini-Edit download page
     The most current release   Use This for now --> HERE
     The support forum
     The help pages

Mini-Edit is a tool developed to create and maintain the database of entries used to create each ITS standard as well as exchange and process them. It also creates the XML schema sets and ASN.1 source code used in ITS. It is freely available here and is used by both authors and by deployment users to access the data concepts.

New to ITS? Here is some useful background material about the program, the players, and the various standards, all provided by the FHWA Joint Program Office. Need to learn about the ITS national architecture? Try here as the best resource on the web.

Ready to start using standards? Here are some of the freely available Users Guides to help you get up to speed with the major message set efforts.
    ATIS            Three new guides also being developed at this time
    IM                (Incident Management), now being revised
    TCIP
    TMDD

Get technical questions about something? Ask the experts, the authors, or other implementors at the ITS standards forum. To prevent spam abusers, you must provide a real email address to gain access, but this will be protected and not shared with anyone including FHWA, nor will we send you unsolicited mail.

Current Status [July 2007]

Efforts to rally the SDO community to maintain the ITS standards forum for the good of deployments and committees have so far failed to gain traction, hence free access to this resource has ended. In the last few years, this has become the premier place to find practical ITS solutions to using the standards. We have tried for the last 6+ months to quietly point out that this is the most cost effective resource possible to do this sort of thing and have offered to maintain it for free if others (presumably FHWA) will cover the monthly bandwidth costs. With the the decline in standards development work, we can no longer do this as a community service as we have done for the past decade. Hence, we have removed or change access policies to many of the resources found here. We are aware this will cause great pain to others, and we are seeking a solution to support the deployment community. Details as they become known.

The Serv3 node is being rebuilt perform for-hire message set testing. Please keep in mind that Servers Serv2, Serv3, and Serv4 were not damaged, only Serv1. This however this caused DNS, Mail and many file server systems (such as the ITS XML schema server) to go down in the ITSware domain in January.

A note about the new port scanner for application programmers. Like the old one, this system detects intrusion attempts and will lock you out if it sees multiple odd-ball ports, strange URLs and other odd things. Lock-out is for 24 hours after a half a dozen violations are seen from your IP. If you see the site seem to go "off line" you are probably getting trapped. Contact us if you think this is stopping your use of any experimental ITS software. Normal users of the site (web, smtp, dns, etc.) will never run into this, only those testing SW.

Mail Services
Restored and working. - We finally seem to have the SMTP filters working again. There was some legit mail getting rejected while this got tuned. As before, mail filters for the domain are shared with the forum so if you get on our "white list" you are good for the rest of the site. Extreme spam filtering setting are now used.

Mail Services for Forum traffic
Restored and working.

List Servers
Working again. Auto-posting from other lists (SAE, IEEE, Justice Dept. and various working committees) now flowing with a 5 min delay.

/BlindLinks
Still Offline pending rebuild. Disk is now at a clean room for file recovery work.

/MiniEdit (including web help system) Mostly Offline, being rebuilt now. Anyone needing the most current download of the Mini-Edit tool (release build #44) can download the crucial installer script or just the program and current support files from this link: http://serv2.itsware.net/temp/doc.htm Disk is now at a clean room for file recovery work.

/ XML
Semi-Restored and working. Some outdated pages currently loaded.

/ ITSschemas
Restored and working.

Hint: Many committee file sites are now integrated with their ITS stds forum content, hence you can get the information you seek by finding the link in the proper sub-forum of Serv4. In general, the direct access to the below directories is no longer required. Remember that you must log-on in order to see all the committers and forums that you are a part of.

/ ATISworkingdrafts (SAE ATIS committee file site)
Restored and working. However, you need to know the precise name of the file you want from the directory, browsing is prohibited

/ ATIS Users Guides (SAE ATIS committee file site)
Restored and working. Please note that the new guides that are being developed in early 2007 for Weather Users, for DB/5111 Advice as well as those also being developed by others to reflect IEEE 1512 Usage advise will all be found on the forum in the deployment support section for each user community.

/ IMworkingdrafts (IEEE 1512 IM committee file site)
Restored and working.

/ ADUSworkingdrafts (ASTM ADUS committee file site)
Restored and working.

The standards forum has many public names, all of which work. The topic and forum IDs are the same and permanent, regardless of what domain you use. Try www.ITSstandards.com or www.ITSstandards.org or www.ITSstandards.net or if you don't like to type as much, try www.ITSstds.com or www.ITSstds.org etc.

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