24/08/2020
On 29 July 2020, the Ministry of Transport (MOT) published a call for comments on the Guidelines for the Establishment of the Internet of Vehicles National Standards System—Intelligent Transportation (Draft for Comments).
The Draft outlines two specific goals for the development of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) national standards system:
- By the end of 2022, a preliminary standards system that supports IoV applications and industrial development should have been established. A set of standards for intelligent transportation should have been formulated, covering fields such as infrastructure and driver assistance. At least 20 standards should be formulated or revised over this period.
- By the end of 2025, the standards system should have become mature. A set of key standards for intelligent vehicles should have been formulated, covering fields from intelligent management and services to vehicle-infrastructure integration. 20 additional standards should be formulated or revised over this period, bringing the total number of IoV standards to 40.
The Guidelines for the Establishment of the Internet of Vehicles National Standards System is a serial policy document issued by MIIT and SAC. It consists of six parts, five of which have already been released, namely:
- Information Communication
- Electronic Products and Services
- Intelligent Connected Vehicles
- Intelligent Vehicle Management
- Overall Requirements.
The newly-released part, by MOT, on Intelligent Transportation, is in fact the last piece of the jigsaw of China’s IoV standards system. IoV entails the coordination of multiple technical areas and administrative bodies; among them, MOT has always been in charge of the standardisation work for intelligent transportation. The release of the new Guidelines signals that China has completed the integration of IoV standardisation work based on an inter-ministerial coordination mechanism. Moreover, the new document on intelligent transportation has largely benefitted from MOT’s well-established standardisation experience in the field, as can be seen from the completeness and thoroughness of the draft compared to the other parts of the IoV standard system.
