UK National Technical Framework for ITS

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The UK National Technical Framework is owned and maintained by the Joint Chairs Group, which brings together a wide range of organisations involved in standards and specifications for the transport sector. Within JCG, RTIG has responsibility for representing the passenger transport sector; however other JCG members have functions which are also of significance to passenger transport.

The Framework itself is intended to provide an overarching umbrella of guidance to senior managers who are responsible for ensuring overall effective and efficient services. It is not simply an "introduction to ITS", but a concrete set of recommendations on how to build, operate and monitor technology. By adopting common standards and practices across modes, the aim is to improve coherence and cost-effectiveness.

NTFI00 - Introduction	:	Introduction to the National Framework: its aim and purpose, current elements of the Framework, and contact details.
NTFI01 - Communications	:	Guidance on how to set up and operate a set of communications networks that efficiently serves a range of transport needs.
NTFI02 - Data exchange	:	Guidance on how to use data exchange standards, helping make sense of the various specifications that now exist in the sector (draft)
Incident management	:	Guidance on how to set up data management processes that will help deal with unforeseen events (in planning)
Data protection and privacy	:	Guidance on how to ensure data is adequately proceted, building on existing advice from Information Commissioner and others (in planning)
Smartcards	:	Guidance on how to develop and deploy an effective smart and integrated ticketing service, working across modes and across boundaries (in planning)
Organisational	:	Guidance on how to establish and staff an operation that efficiently supports the ITS for a variety of transport functions (in planning)