A Guide to the ATIS Guides

A summary of the various guides, resources, and supporting materials maintained by the SAE

Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS) Committee for deployments

Society of Automotive Engineers400 Commonwealth Drive

Warrendale, PA 15096-0001

Printed/Web Resources Include:

• The SAE J2354 ATIS standard itself(available from SAE) http://www.sae.org/servlets/index

• The XML schema and ASN files(freely available on-line) http://www.itsware.net/itsschemas/ReadMe.htm

• OET Training slides(available from SAE)

• The Guide Documents(freely available on-line)

• The Committee web forums (freely available on-line) http://www.ITSstandards.net/bb/index.php?c=3

The topic of this paper

The Guides Six ATIS Deployment Guides exist as this time

all freely available from SAE and FHWA sponsored web sites.

– The General ATIS Guide– The Event Message Guide– The Weather Message Guide– The Routing Message Guide– The ADUS with ATIS Guide– The DB-SQL Guide

• An emphasis on the practical aspects of how to effectively use the standard with multiple real world examples.

• Multiple XML, XSD and ASN codes fragments are available on–line as examples.

The General ATIS Guide

• This guide provides a general overview of the ATIS message set and its contents, then explores the proper use of the events, routing and other messages with the use of ITIS codes and other standards that ATIS makes use of.

• 128 Pages in Four separate volumes• http://www.ITSware.net/ATISworkingdrafts/guide/

The Event Guide

• This guide provides more detailed data on constructing the event message, the message used for 90% of ATIS traffic. An extensive section on the process of customizing the national schemas for local needs and use is also provided.

• 72 Pages in .doc .pdf and .html format with XML examples• http://www.ITSware.net/ITSschemas/ATIS%20Guide/ATIS-Events/

The Weather Guide

• This guide provides more detailed data on the use of the ATIS weather message for general weather conditions reporting and for use in support of traffic conditions.

• 23 Pages in .doc .pdf and .html format with XML examples• http://www.ITSware.net/ITSschemas/ATIS%20Guide/ATIS-Weather/

The Routing Guide

• This guide provides more detailed data on constructing multi-modal routes for travelers, for construction and special event use, and for detours.

• 48 Pages in .doc .pdf and .html format with XML examples• http://www.ITSware.net/ITSschemas/ATIS%20Guide/ATIS-Routes/

The ADUS-ATIS Guide

• This guide provides more detailed data on the use and support for the ADUS methods and standards when building an ATIS system.

• 25 Pages in .doc .pdf and .html format with XML examples• http://www.ITSware.net/ITSschemas/ATIS%20Guide/ATIS-ADUS/

The DB-SQL Guide

• This guide provides more detailed data on the critical design considerations when developing a SQL style database to support the capture of ATIS message content.

• 35 Pages in .doc .pdf and .html format with XML examples• http://www.ITSware.net/ITSschemas/ATIS%20Guide/ATIS-DB-SQL/

Typical Guide Layout

Built in Three Parts• Part I, a Discussion of the relevant

message from the standard• Part II, Example use cases, dialogs, and

messages with correctly formed XML encoding given

• Part III, Supporting linkages to complete messages, schema files, and other programmer fragments.

Part I

Part II

XML XSD

The guides also makes use of a smaller schema set then the complete national standard, this can be found on-line in the public repository at: http://www.ITSware.net/ITSschemas/ATIS%20Guide/ATIS-03-00-79guide/

User Feedback• As the ITS community uses the guides, new

questions, corrections, and improvements are expected to occur.

• It is recommend that such questions be posted to the committee forum so that all can participate in the process of response.

• Today, answers to hundreds of common ITS deployment questions can be found there.

• http://www.ITSstandards.net/bb/index.php?c=3

ATIS Committee Contacts

• Chairman:Joel MarkowitzMetropolitan Transportation Commission <jmarkowitz@mtc.ca.gov>

• SAE Staff:Caroline E. MichaelsSAE International <CMichaels@sae.org>

• Support Consultant: DC KelleySubCarrier Systems Corp (SCSC)<davidkelley@ITSware.net>