Equipment Package: MCM Maintenance Decision Support
Description:
This equipment package recommends maintenance courses of action based on current and forecast environmental and road conditions and additional application specific information. Decisions are supported through understandable presentation of filtered and fused environmental and road condition information for specific time horizons as well as specific maintenance recommendations that are generated by the system based on this integrated information. The recommended courses of action are supported by information on the anticipated consequences of action or inaction, when available.
Included In:
Local DPW Dispatch
MTO Maintenance/Construction Dispatch
NITTEC Traffic Operations Center
NYSDOT Region 5 Maintenance/Construction Residencies/Bridge Crew Facilities
NYSTA ITS Maintenance
NYSTA Operations and Maintenance
RMN Maintenance Dispatch
General Functional Requirements
1 -
The center shall provide the center personnel with tailored external information, including weather or road condition observations, forecasted weather information or road conditions, current usage of treatments and materials, available resources, equipment and vehicle availability, road network information, and source reliability information. 2 -
The center shall tailor the decision support information to include filtering (selection from a large amount of external information), error reduction ('smoothing' the information), fusion (combination of disparate information to match the decision needs), and analysis (creating the decision). 3 -
The center shall provide an interface to the center personnel to input control parameters for the decision support process and receive decisions or information presentation. 4 -
The center shall provide dispatch information to maintenance and construction vehicles based on the outputs of the decision support system, including recommended roadway treatment actions.
