Transport by road covers entails many aspects: the vehicles itself, the maintenance and applications devices of the vehicle, the road infrastructure, and the fuelling infrastructure. Safe, sustainable and reliable road travels rely on the articulation of all these dimensions. In this context, European standards constitutes precious help for the equipment manufacturers and the service providers to develop their product to reach an optimal result.
CEN & CENELEC develop standards on road equipment, alternative fuels infrastructure connection and various vehicle devices applications.
Road equipment
Ensuring safe road network implies to have strong standards of traffic control and other road equipment. CEN & CENELEC develops standards for safety fences and barriers, signs, road markings, traffic lights and noise protection devices.
Road operation equipment & products
Ensuring safe travels on road also entails functional specifications of winter maintenance equipment and road service maintenance equipment for roads, motorways, airbases and their testing for assessment of the equipment performance. CEN & CENELEC develops a series of standards on these different specifications.
Road vehicles
When it comes to road vehicles, CEN & CENELEC standards focus mainly on three specific fields: the safety of roller brake testers, the safety of machines for mounting and demounting vehicles tyres, the repair and maintenance information and the supplementary grip devices.
Alternative fuels infrastructure
CEN & CENELEC also develop European standard to support the deployment of alternative fuels (electricity, hydrogen, natural gas) infrastructure for road vehicles - amongst other - in the context of the dedicated European legislation. Thanks to these standards, the fuel infrastructure is interoperable with all vehicles across the EU. This allow light and heavy road vehicles to refuel anywhere whatever their brand and whatever the kind of refuelling station.
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