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Standards Development Organizations

ITS standards are developed in public-private partnerships between the ITS Standards Program (USDOT) and standards development organizations. Individual ITS Standards contacts are available for each SDO. Note: “NTCIP” (National Transportation Communications for ITS Protocol) standards are produced by the NTCIP Joint Committee and are endorsed and published jointly by AASHTO, ITE and NEMA.

	American National Standards Institute (ANSI) www.ansi.org/
	American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) transportation.org
	American Public Transportation Association (APTA) www.apta.com
	National Electrical Manufacturers Association www.nema.org
	ASTM International (ASTM) www.astm.org
	IEEE www.ieee.org
	Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) www.ite.org
	SAE International www.sae.org

USDOT Partners

	Federal Transit Administration (FTA) www.transit.dot.gov
	Office of Operations, Facilitating Integrated ITS Deployment Program ops.fhwa.dot.gov/int_its_deployment/index.htm
	Federal Railroad Administration railroads.dot.gov
	ITS Professional Capacity Building Program www.its.dot.gov/pcb/
	National ITS Reference Architecture The National ITS Reference Architecture provides the framework in which systems and their interconnections are defined and it is upon this consistent framework that the standards are based. By specifying how systems and components interconnect, the standards promote interoperability.