ISO/TS 24533:2012

TECHNICAL ISO/TS
SPECIFICATION 24533
First edition
2012-07-15
Intelligent transport systems —
Electronic information exchange to
facilitate the movement of freight and its
intermodal transfer — Road transport
information exchange methodology
Systèmes intelligents de transport — Échange d'informations
électroniques facilitant le mouvement du fret et son transfert
intermodal — Méthodologie pour l'échange d'informations concernant le
transport routier
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ISO 2012
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Contents Page
1 Scope.1
2 Terms and definitions .2
3 Symbols and abbreviated terms .7
4 Intermodal freight context .8
4.1 General.8
4.2 Intermodal freight — Road transport component concept of operations .9
4.2.1 Objectives.9
4.2.2 Overview of freight physical flow .10
4.2.3 Information exchange transactions.12
4.2.4 Operational scenario.13
4.2.5 Maintaining the operational scenario.23
4.3 Intermodal freight — Road transport component use cases.23
4.3.1 Business domain.23
4.3.2 Business requirements.25
4.3.3 Global context use case — Ship (Transport interpretation) — Level 1 .25
4.3.4 Use case elaboration — Initiate consignment transport — Level 2.27
4.3.5 Use case elaboration — Export — Level 2.32
4.3.6 Use case elaboration — Import — Level 2.33
4.3.7 Use case elaboration — Transport consignment: Inbound — Level 2 .34
4.3.8 Use case elaboration — Conclude consignment transaction — Level 2 .35
5 Information modelling.36
5.1 Core components .36
5.2 OASIS Universal Business Language .38
5.2.1 UBL Core Component and document library .38
5.2.2 Applying UBL to intermodal freight movement .38
5.3 The UBL transportation status document type.39
5.4 Customizing UBL document types.40
5.4.1 Creating ITS transportation document assembly models .40
5.4.2 Creating ITS transportation XML schemas.41
6 Code lists.41
6.1 UBL code list values and code list schemas.41
6.2 ITS transportation status code lists and code list schemas.42
Annex A (informative) Governance in the context of intermodal electronic information exchange
using UBL/XML .43
Annex B (informative) Core component types.44
Annex C (informative) Document assembly model for a representative ITS transportation status
document.48
C.1 Main document assembly model .48
C.2 Common document assembly models.49
Annex D (informative) XML schema for an ITS transportation status document type .64

Figure 1 — Information exchanges at intermodal interface.1
Figure 2 — Simplified depiction of physical freight flow for time-sensitive freight.11
Figure 3 — Information exchanges in a generalized "Truck-Air-Truck" supply chain.21
Figure 4 – Use Case Diagram – Ship (Transport Interpretation). 26
Figure 5 — "Transport Event" ABIE with BBIEs and ASBIEs . 37
Figure 6 — Primary transport ABIEs and their associations . 40

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Foreword
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ISO/TS 24533 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 204, Intelligent transport systems.
Introduction
Seamless exchange of accurate, complete, and timely data at transportation hand-offs has always been
important for efficiency and accountability. There is also an understanding of needs for security of transport
information, and for transfer of information related to security against terrorism as well as theft and traditional
contraband. It is imperative for standards development organizations to address and facilitate dealing with
these needs.
ISO/TR 14813-2:2000, 7.4.1 identifies a commercial vehicle functional domain:
"These transactions maintain the TICS information about a shipment from the time of the order by the
consignor to the reception of goods by the consignee. The key TICS transactions are to provide registers
of service providers and to enable the goods to be tracked throughout intermodal journeys."
Consequently, Technical Committee ISO/TC 204, Intelligent transport systems, seeks to fill a role focusing on
data exchange needs for the international supply chain that relate specifically to motor carrier transportation
including data needs for the interface with all modes of transportation since freight movement normally
includes interfaces with other modes of transportation. Those needs are essential for transport information
and control systems.
Some international shipments are carried out entirely by highway mode, but most begin and end with motor
carrier service and travel by other modes in the course of the shipment. This Technical Specification focuses
on motor carrier transport interfaces through the supply chain, or those data items that deal specifically with
the key pieces of transport information critical to getting the goods to the marketplace without delay related to
data sharing. Therefore, the interfacing modes' data structures and formats must accommodate each other to
assure efficiency and security from end to end. Truck, rail and ocean transport are vital components of
intermodal, international shipping. It is recognized that a robust intermodal standard must include interface
connections to all of these modes, and may need to be proven through demonstration tests. Research and
tests carried out in the US motivated the use of a truck-air-truck supply chain (shown in Figure 3). Preliminary
investigations suggest that there is no single organization responsible for transport data standards through the
intermodal supply chain. To achieve a coherent set of transport standards requires coordination among the
various international organizations working on component parts of these international standards. TC 204 has
advanced the idea of close coordination among other appropriate ISO Technical Committees, OASIS, IATA,
IEC, CEN, UN Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business, and the World Customs Organization.
Contact has been made and interest has been expressed in cooperating on the development of intermodal
data exchange standards that fully cover the supply chain. This Technical Specification is a preliminary step
towards coordinating between the various standards organizations.
The vision expressed in this Technical Specification is to allow electronic data sharing through many-to-many
relationships between supply chain partners which will help ensure sustaining standards. One-to-one
relationships require only two partners to have standard data relationships with each other, and could require
other partners to adopt the standards of the original two or require third party translators, which increases
costs in the transport of goods. The many-to-many relationships also ensure that data initiated by the first
partner will allow other partners equal access and can also help customs agencies to access data early in the
progress of goods coming through the supply chain.
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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION ISO/TS 24533:2012(E)

Intelligent transport systems — Electronic information
exchange to facilitate the movement of freight and its
intermodal transfer — Road transport information exchange
methodology
1 Scope
This Technical Specification specifies the data concepts applicable to the movement of freight and its
intermodal transfer. These data concepts include information entities (data elements), aggregated/associated
information entities (groups of data elements) and messages that comprise information exchanges at
transport interfaces along the chain of participants responsible for the delivery of goods from the point of origin
through to the final recipient as presented in Figure 1. This Technical Specification focuses on a single
"thread" of the overall end-to-end supply chain.
It includ
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