ISO 16183规定了在试验台上瞬态条件下重型发动机气体和颗粒废气排放的测量和评估方法。其定义的程序可适用于不需要极端系统响应时间的任何瞬态试验循环；因此，经认证机构批准，可将其用作认证试验循环（如ETC和FTP）的规定测量设备（通常为CVS型系统）的选项。 ISO 16183适用于主要为道路使用而设计的商用车辆的重型发动机，但也适用于乘用车发动机和非道路应用发动机。规定的试验设备也可用于稳态试验循环，但是，如果是这样，则需要将计算程序替换为适用于特定试验循环的程序。

ISO 16183 specifies methods for the measurement and evaluation of gaseous and particulate exhaust emissions from heavy-duty engines under transient conditions on a test bed. The procedures it defines can be applied to any transient test cycle that does not require extreme system response times; it can therefore be used as an option to the regulated measurement equipment (usually CVS-type systems) of certification test cycles (e.g. ETC and FTP), with the approval of the certification agency. ISO 16183 is applicable to heavy-duty engines for commercial vehicles primarily designed for road use, but can also be applied to passenger car engines and to engines used for non-road applications. The test equipment specified can also be applied to steady-state test cycles, however, if so, the calculation procedures will need to be replaced by those applicable to the particular test cycle.