Commerical Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (CVISN) Recommendations for Primary Identifiers. Baseline Version V1.0

摘要

The Commercial Vehicle Information and Systems Network (CVISN) Architecture recommends that the stakeholder community adopt standard primary identifiers for carrier, vehicle, transponder, driver, shipment, and international trip in all data exchanges. In 1996, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory published a preliminary version of this paper to describe the preliminary recommendations. Since then, experience with States deploying CVISN has caused the recommended standard identifiers to be modified. This revised paper explains the new recommendations. Each of the entities (i.e., carrier, vehicle, transponder, driver, shipment, or international trip) about which CVISN stakeholders exchange information can be identified in a variety of ways using a physical identifier; that is, an identifier that supports an existing manual process. For example, the vehicle physical identifiers include license plate jurisdiction and number, vehicle identification number (VIN), or registration number. If one state chooses to develop a database that is indexed on license plate number while another states database is based on VIN, it will be difficult for the two states to exchange information about a specific vehicle. In order to address this problem, it is necessary for the Commercial Vehicle Operations (CVO) community to adopt a primary identifier for each entity that can act as a common way to name each entity about which information is exchanged.