AMPA Regional ITS Architecture Update

Element Expanded Functional Requirements: City of Albuquerque Transit Information Center

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: 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.