AMPA Regional ITS Architecture Update

Element Expanded Functional Requirements: NMROADS Admin

Functional Area: Basic Information Broadcast
  1. The center shall disseminate traffic and highway condition information to travelers, including incident information, detours and road closures, event information, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes.
  2. The center shall disseminate maintenance and construction information to travelers, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities.
  3. The center shall disseminate transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information to travelers.
  4. The center shall disseminate parking information to travelers, including location, availability, and fees.
  5. The center shall disseminate toll fee information to travelers.
  6. The center shall disseminate weather information to travelers.
  7. The center shall disseminate event information to travelers.
  8. The center shall disseminate air quality information to travelers.
  9. The center shall provide the capability to support requests from the media for traffic and incident data.
  10. The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to control the type and update frequency of broadcast traveler information.
Functional Area: TMC Probe Information Collection
  1. The center shall collect traffic probe data from vehicles via roadside field equipment.
  2. The center shall collect road condition data from probe-equipped transit vehicles via transit management centers; the data may be aggregated and preliminarily processed at the sending center.
  3. The center shall collect traffic data from traveler information centers based on data from their subscriber vehicles; the data may be aggregated and initial link time calculations performed at the sending center.
  4. The center shall collect traffic data from toll administrative centers containing travel times between toll collection points for those vehicles equipped for electronic toll collection; the data may be aggregated and processed at the sending center.
  5. The center shall assimilate current and forecast traffic conditions based on collected probe data and distribute to other centers for dissemination to travelers.
  6. The center shall collect operational status for the roadside probe data collection equipment.
  7. The center shall collect fault data for the roadside probe data collection equipment for repair.
Functional Area: Traffic Data Collection
  1. The center shall collect traffic management data such as operational data, event logs, etc.
  2. The center shall assign quality control metrics and meta-data to be stored along with the data. Meta-data may include attributes that describe the source and quality of the data and the conditions surrounding the collection of the data.
  3. The center shall receive and respond to requests from ITS Archives for either a catalog of the traffic data or for the data itself.
  4. The center shall be able to produce sample products of the data available.