Development of intelligent transport systems in the Russian Federation: defining requirements and organizing the creation of polygons for testing information security

Abstract

Unmanned vehicle technologies create new opportunities for the development of the economic and social infrastructure of countries and regions. The implementation of smart mobility projects, along with qualitative transformations in the areas of transport and logistics services, is associated with the need to identify and assess the risks of the widespread introduction of unmanned vehicles. The scale and intensity of digital communications in the operation of highly automated vehicles for various purposes expands the scope of road safety. Wireless communication is the main channel of information interaction between dynamic and static objects of an intelligent transport system, which predetermines the formation of a specific set of threats. The increase in the risk of electromagnetic disturbances and deliberate impacts on the management of unmanned vehicles brings the analysis of information security issues to the fore. This requires an urgent start to develop new regulatory and technical approaches to road safety. The article presents an analysis of the current state of projects for the creation of national intelligent transport systems. The key characteristics of sources of threats and zones of vulnerability of the technological platform for information interaction of highly automated vehicles have been determined. The key requirements for the determination of the composition and the development of the specification of the tasks of the test ranges when testing the information security of unmanned vehicles are given. The experience of designing test sites is generalized and the author's version of the process of organizing the development and implementation of such a project is proposed, taking into account the whole range of tasks of verification and validation of the components of an intelligent transport system from the standpoint of ensuring the security of information interaction, taking into account the capabilities of the V2X technology platform in a 5G mobile communications environment. The author's recommendations on the creation of institutional conditions in the Russian Federation for regulating the creation and certification of devices and technologies for information interaction of unmanned vehicles are presented. Priority directions of further research in the field of development of hardware and software solutions and technological regulations (standards) for information security, as well as the formation of methods and tools for testing self-driving cars for various purposes in the Russian Federation have been identified.

Keywords

• intelligent transport system
• digital technologies
• autonomous vehicles
• information security
• testing ground
• testing organization