This paper presents a system for remote vehicle inspection developed within the VISIONS (vehicular system interface for open network service) research project funded by the European Commission. The system architecture allows digital service exchange between vehicles and road infrastructures (e.g., road, tunnel, terminal containers) and makes available a large set of significant vehicle data (e.g., engine status, tire pressure, cargo documents) directly to the infrastructure information system applications. The VISIONS system, based on the service oriented architecture, includes appropriate extensions to such an architecture to meet domain-specific requirements such as highly dynamic event handling and short service persistence in the network. The paper describes the architecture, the system prototype and the experimental results obtained in a pilot system located in the Mont Blanc Tunnel