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Annotation: The article examines the current state of legal and technical regulation of intelligent transport systems (ITS) in the Russian Federation. The research is structured around four interrelated blocks: the current state of regulation, the impact of standardization on ITS development, prospects for standardization development, and a practice‑oriented model for its improvement. It is shown that regulatory legal acts form the strategic framework for the digital transformation of the transport industry, road safety, scientific and technological development, experimental legal regimes, and the deployment of highly automated vehicles. Standardization documents, in turn, translate these objectives into applied requirements for architecture, subsystems, integration platforms, data, testing, and operation of ITS. It is substantiated that the key challenge at the current stage is not the absence of a regulatory framework per se, but rather the insufficient integration of standards with the life cycle of local projects, procurement practices, performance assessment, and technological advancement. A practice‑oriented model for improving ITS standardization is proposed, based on a matrix of standards applicability, a reference architecture, requirements verification, testing, operational monitoring, and feedback to update the standardization program.