The following is a listing of recent news items relating to the NTCIP.

Posted July 22, 2010
NTCIP 8005 to Create MIB Files -- Approved and Published. ROSSLYN, VA, July 22, 2010—The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) have published NTCIP 8005 v01, Procedures for Creating Management Information Base (MIB) Files.

NTCIP 8005 v01 is a Process, Control, and Information Management Policy standard that:
>> defines how to convert Management Information Base definitions into a MIB module; and
>> how to import multiple MIB modules.

The NTCIP 8005 v01 reached the stage of Jointly Approved by the three SDOs in June 2010.

The contents and scope of NTCIP 8005 v01 may be viewed, and a hard copy or electronic copy purchased for $50.00, by visiting NEMA’s Web site at http://www.nema.org/stds/ntcip8005.cfm, or by contacting IHS at 800-854-7179 (within the U.S.), 303-397-7956 (international), 303-397-2740 (fax), or on the Web at http://global.ihs.com.

NTCIP 8005 v01 is also available from the NTCIP website, www.ntcip.org, as no-cost Adobe PDF downloads. This special offer is made possible by funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s ITS Joint Program Office.

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Posted June 17, 2010
Four NTCIP standards now Jointly Approved -- 1103 v02 - 2301 v02 - 8004 v02 - 8005 v01. AASHTO, ITE, and NEMA are please to announce that four additional NTCIP standards publications have now reached the stage of "Jointly Approved."

The documents have now entered pre-publication editing, and the "JA" PDFs will be posted for downloading soon. The ntcip.org website Library pages will be updated to report the new status for these major version editions.

The four standards publications are:

1. NTCIP 1103 v02 - Transportation Management Protocols (TMP)
==== Approvals
------- AASHTO—Standard Specification; May 2010
------- ITE—Software Standard; June 2010
------- NEMA—Standard; August 2009

2. NTCIP 2301 v02, Simple Transportation Management Framework Application Profile (AP-STMF) – version 02
==== Approvals
------- AASHTO—Standard Specification; May 2010
------- ITE—Software Standard; June 2010
------- NEMA—Standard; November 2009

3. NTCIP 8004 v02, Structure and Identification of Management Information (SMI) – Version 02
==== Approvals
------- AASHTO—Standard Specification; May 2010
------- ITE—Software Standard; June 2010
------- NEMA—Standard; December 2009

4. NTCIP 8005 v01, Procedures for Creating Management Information Base (MIB) Files
==== Approvals
------- AASHTO—Standard Specification; May 2010
------- ITE—Software Standard; June 2010
------- NEMA—Standard; December 2009

The SDOs extend our thanks to the BSP2 WG members, to our past BSP2 WG chair Bob De Roche, and to our volunteer members for producing, reviewing, and approving these standards publications.

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Posted March 19, 2010
Ramos from NYS DOT Made Co-chair of ASC WG. On behalf of Manny Insignares, the NTCIP Joint Committee chair, we are pleased to announce that Guillermo Ramos of the NYS DOT has been appointed as the public sector co-chair of the NTCIP Actuated Signal Control Working Group.

Guillermo is the Section Head of the Signal Unit in the Traffic Operations Bureau at NYSDOT in Albany, NY. He has previously served as a Voting Member of the ASC WG, and had been appointed by AASHTO to the ATC Joint Committee.

Guillermo joins Peter Ragsdale, who is the private sector co-chair of ASC WG.

Additional changes to the ASC WG roster include:

Scott Evans and John Thai have been made Voting Members;

Joel Havris replaced Bruce McEntire as a Voting Member from City of Phoenix;

Antonio Sarmiento is the Voting Member from Caltrans; and

Patrick Chuang has moved to Observing Member.

The updated ASC WG roster now with 15 Voting Members.

The ASC WG has started work on the NTCIP 1214 standard for conflict monitors.

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Posted January 20, 2010
Brazil Federal Road Agency Regulates To Use NTCIP. December 2009. As published in their Federal Official Regulations (DOU DEC 29, 2009), the Brazil Federal Roads have new regulations for the use of the NTCIP Standards.

The announcement from the Agência Nacional de Transportes Terrestres (ANTT) is published at http://appeantt.antt.gov.br/resolucoes/05000/resolucao3323a_2009.htm.

A Portuguese excerpt of the regulation reads ...

"RESOLUÇÃO Nº 3.323-A, DE 18 DE NOVEMBRO DE 2009;
DOU de 29 DE DEZEMBRO DE 2009

"...

"Art. 2º Para os fins desta Resolução, considera-se:

"I – ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) - Sistemas de Transporte Inteligentes - Conjunto de equipamentos e sistemas de monitoramento de tráfego utilizados nas rodovias federais concedidas, desde os equipamentos e sistemas de coleta de dados, monitoramento e sensoriamento instalados ao longo das rodovias, equipamentos e sistemas de monitoração de tráfego instalados em postos de operação e fiscalização localizados nas rodovias e equipamentos e sistemas instalados nos Centros de Controle Operacional das concessionárias, sejam eles de coleta de dados ou de gestão operacional e demais Centros de Controle com os quais esses sistemas trocam informações; e

..."

And in English, Article 2 and the following articles read:

"Article 2 For the purposes of this resolution, it is:"

I - ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) - Intelligent Transport Systems - A set of equipment and systems for monitoring traffic used on federal highways granted, provided the equipment and systems for data collection, monitoring and sensing installed along the roads, equipment and systems for traffic monitoring stations installed in operating and monitoring located on highways and equipment and systems installed in Operational Control Centers of the utilities, whether the data collection and management and other operational control centers with which these systems share information e

"II - NTCIP - set of Communication Protocols and Data Dictionary Data Standards for ITS systems developed by the National Electronics Manufacturers Association (NEMA), in conjunction with the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), which were designed to meet the needs of various systems, subsystems and services to service users of ITS systems.

"Article 3 The Dealers of Highways Granted governed by ANTT should adopt Protocol NTCIP - National Transportation Communications for ITS Protocol, developed by the National Electronics Manufacturers Association (NEMA), in conjunction with the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and with the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), which will regulate the use of equipment, systems and ITS applications in federal highways granted.

"Article 4 The set of Communication Protocols and Data Dictionary Data Standards for the Communication Center Field (NTCIP C2F - Center to Field) should be used for communication between the equipment and monitoring systems, traffic controllers, panels Variable message traffic, traffic sensors, meteorological sensors, OCR (Optical Character Recognition), registers speed (radar), weight sensors, motion
sensors, weight control, access ramps, traffic signals, CCTV (Closed Circuit TV) - only the control of cameras, other systems of data collection installed along the roads, with the Operation Control Centers and their collection systems and operational management of the utilities to which they are connected.

"Article 5 The set of communication protocols and data dictionaries Data Standards for Communication Center to Center (C2C NTCIP - Center to Center) should be used for communication between equipment and systems installed in Operational Control Centers of the dealers Centers Operational Control of other utilities systems and agencies and Regulators.

..."

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Posted January 7, 2010
NTCIP Joint Committee sets 2010 teleconference schedule. The NTCIP Joint Committee announced their teleconference schedule for CY2010, to be held on Thursdays at 2:00 to 3:00 PM Eastern Time.

The NTCIP Joint Cmte selected these dates for teleconferences:

>> January 21 (1/21).

>> (If the NTCIP 1201 v03 GO substitution is not ready for January), then February 18 (2/18).

>> Next, March 18 (3/18), after ITE's Spring Conference in Savanah.

>> Next, April 29 (4/29).

>> June 17 (6/17).

>> September 16 (9/16).

>> Last for the year, November 18 (11/18).

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