AMPA Regional ITS Architecture Update

Element Expanded Functional Requirements: Private Sector Traveler Information Services

Functional Area: Infrastructure Provided Trip Planning
  1. The center shall provide the capability to provide specific pre-trip and enroute directions to travelers (and drivers), including costs, arrival times, and transfer points.
  2. The center shall include bicycle routes, walkways, skyways, and multi-use trails in the pre-trip and enroute directions it provides to travelers.
  3. The center shall support on-line route guidance for travelers using personal devices (such as PDAs).
  4. The center shall support on-line route guidance for drivers in vehicles.
  5. The center shall support on-line route guidance for specialty vehicles, such as commercial vehicles.
  6. The center shall generate route plans based on current and/or predicted conditions of the road network, scheduled maintenance and construction work activities, and work zone activities.
  7. The center shall generate route plans based on transit services, including fares, schedules, and requirements for travelers with special needs.
  8. The center shall generate route plans based on current asset restrictions, such as height and weight restrictions on tunnels or bridges.
  9. The center shall generate route plans based on current or forecasted weather.
  10. The center shall generate route plans based on ferry, rail, air, or other multimodal transportation data.
  11. The center shall exchange route segment information with other centers outside the area served by the local center.
  12. The center shall generate trips based on the use of more than one mode of transport.
  13. The center shall use the preferences and constraints specified by the traveler in the trip request to select the most appropriate mode of transport.
  14. The center shall provide the capability for the traveler to confirm the proposed trip plan.
  15. The center shall log route plans, particularly for special vehicles such as those containing hazardous materials, over-sized vehicles, or motorcades, with a traffic center.
  16. The center shall support an interface with a map update provider, or other appropriate data sources, through which updates of digitized map data can be obtained and used to determine vehicle and non-vehicle routes, trip planning, and on-line vehicle guidance.
  17. The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to control route calculation parameters.
Functional Area: Interactive Infrastructure Information
  1. The center shall disseminate customized traffic and highway condition information to travelers, including incident information, detours and road closures, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes upon request.
  2. The center shall disseminate customized maintenance and construction information to travelers, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities upon request.
  3. The center shall disseminate customized transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information to travelers upon request.
  4. The center shall disseminate customized parking information to travelers, including location, availability, and fees upon request.
  5. The center shall disseminate customized toll fee information to travelers upon request.
  6. The center shall disseminate customized weather information to travelers upon request.
  7. The center shall disseminate customized multimodal transportation service information (for example, from ferry and airline operators), including transfer points and other information, to travelers upon request.
  8. The center shall disseminate customized event information to travelers upon request.
  9. The center shall disseminate customized air quality information to travelers upon request.
  10. The center shall provide all traveler information based on the traveler's current location or a specific location identified by the traveler, and filter or customize the provided information accordingly.
  11. The center shall accept traveler profiles for determining the type of personalized data to send to the traveler.
  12. The center shall manage payment for services, such as tolls, transit fares, parking lot charges, map updates, and advanced payment for tolls, and provide transaction success or failure details.
  13. The center shall support requests for traveler information and advanced payment for traveler services from commercial fleet operators.
  14. The center shall provide the capability to exchange information with another traveler information service provider current or predicted data for road links that are outside the area served by the local supplier.
  15. The center shall manage updates of digitized map data and provide updates to traveler interface systems upon request.
  16. The center shall provide the capability to support requests from the media for traffic and incident data.
  17. The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to control the type and update frequency of traveler information.
Functional Area: ISP Probe Information Collection
  1. The center shall collect traffic probe data (speeds, travel times, etc.) from appropriately equipped vehicles and short range communications equipment.
  2. The center shall aggregate collected traffic probe data, calculate route segment travel times, route segment speeds, and route usage, and disseminate to other centers.
  3. The center shall collect environmental probe data (air temperature, exterior light status, wiper status, traction control status, etc.) from appropriately equipped vehicles and short range communications equipment.
  4. The center shall aggregate collected environmental probe data and disseminate the aggregated environmental probe data to other centers.
  5. The center shall receive traffic probe data collected by transit fleet operators and include this data in aggregated probe data provided to other centers.
  6. The center shall receive traffic probe data derived from electronic toll collection operations and include this data in aggregated probe data provided to other centers.
Functional Area: ISP Emergency Traveler Information
  1. The center shall disseminate emergency evacuation information to the traveler interface systems, including evacuation zones, shelter information, available transportation modes, road closures and detours, changes to transit services, and traffic and road conditions at the origin, destination, and along the evacuation routes.
  2. The center shall provide evacuation information to shelter providers.
  3. The center shall disseminate wide-area alert information to the traveler interface systems, including major emergencies such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, child abductions, severe weather watches and warnings, military activities, and law enforcement warnings.
  4. The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to control the type and update frequency of emergency and wide-area alert information distributed to travelers.
Functional Area: ISP Traveler Data Collection
  1. The center shall collect, process, and store traffic and highway condition information, including incident information, detours and road closures, event information, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes.
  2. The center shall collect, process, and store maintenance and construction information, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities.
  3. The center shall collect, process, and store transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information.
  4. The center shall collect, process, and store parking information, including location, availability, and fees.
  5. The center shall collect, process, and store toll fee information.
  6. The center shall collect, process, and store current and forecast road conditions and surface weather conditions.
  7. The center shall collect, process, and store event information.
  8. The center shall collect, process, and store air quality information.
  9. The center shall collect, process, and store border crossing information.