IEEE Develops Standards for Railway Passenger Information - IEEE P1477, Wireless Payments in Vehicular Environments - IEEE P1609.11

March 15, 2009 // Published as a news service by IHS

IEEE P1477
- Standard for Passenger Information System for Rail Transit Vehicles will revise the 1998 version of the standard to include details on including video as a portion of rail transit passenger information.

IEEE P1609.11
- Standard for Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) - Over-the-Air Data Exchange Protocol for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) will specify the application service layer and profile for payment and identity authentication and payment data transfer for dedicated short range communication-based applications in WAVE.

The standard will address the need for industry to overcome the limits of existing electronic payment systems, which are not interoperable because of the different over-the-air data exchange protocols in use, according to the IEEE.

IEEE also reaffirmed the following standards for use in rail transportation:

• IEEE 1474.2 - IEEE Standard for User Interface Requirements in Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) Systems.
• IEEE 1536 - IEEE Standard for Rail Transit Vehicle Battery Physical Interface.
• IEEE 1570 - IEEE Standard for the Interface Between the Rail Subsystem and the Highway Subsystem at a Highway Rail Intersection.