USDOT is pleased to provide the ITS Standards development and deployment communities with a new tool. The Test Procedure Generator (TPG) provides users with two important capabilities for most of the National Transportation Communications for ITS Protocol (NTCIP) Center-to-Field (C2F) Device Interface Standards:

• The TPG guides the development of test procedures for selected requirements in NTCIP C2F standards.
• NTCIP C2F standards developers can import their draft standard into the TPG to see a report of any non-compliance to NTCIP 8002 Annex B1. The report provides any breakages between user needs, requirement, and design detail.

Using the TPG tool will reduce developmental risks, effort, and the cost of developing standards and test procedures, which in turn will encourage the deployment of interoperable NTCIP C2F systems. Agencies can use the test procedures generated by the TPG to help determine an implementation’s conformance to the NTCIP C2F Device Interface Standards. If extensions to the standard have been added for the project, the test procedures generated by the TPG can be used to help determine compliance to a project specification.