ITS Element: Farmington Traffic Operations Center

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Description: Manages all traffic signals; manages all road equipment including traffic cameras, signal priority, and speed radars to monitor and control traffic.
Status: Existing
Stakeholder: City of Farmington Traffic Engineering
Mapping: Traffic Management
Maintenance and Construction Management
Other Traffic Management
Other MCM

Interfaces:

Aztec Field Devices
Bloomfield Field Devices
Farmington Advisory Traveler Information Systems
Farmington Field Devices
Farmington Streets Maintenance Yard
Navajo DOT Field Devices
Newspapers, Television, Radio Stations
NM DPS
NMDOT District 5 TOC
NMROADS Admin
Red Apple Transit Operations Center
San Juan County Communications Center
San Juan County EOC
San Juan County Field Devices
Special Event Promoters
Service Packages: APTS02 - Transit Fixed-Route Operations - Red Apple Transit
APTS03 - Demand Response Transit Operations - Red Apple Transit
ATIS01 - Broadcast Traveler Information - Farmington
ATMS01 - Network Surveillance - Farmington
ATMS02 - Traffic Probe Surveillance - City of Farmington
ATMS03 - Traffic Signal Control - Farmington
ATMS06 - Traffic Information Dissemination - Farmington
ATMS07 - Regional Traffic Management -
ATMS08 - Traffic Incident Management System - San Juan County Comm Authority
ATMS08 - Traffic Incident Management System - Farmington
ATMS12 - Roadside Lighting System Control - City of Farmington
ATMS22 - Variable Speed Limits - Farmington
EM02 - Emergency Routing - San Juan EMS/Farmington Emergency Signal Preemption
EM02 - Emergency Routing - Farmington PD Emergency Signal Preemption
EM02 - Emergency Routing - Farmington Fire Emergency Signal Preemption
EM06 - Wide-Area Alert - General Wide Area Alerts
EM06 - Wide-Area Alert - Amber/Silver Alert
EM07 - Early Warning System -
EM08 - Disaster Response and Recovery -
EM09 - Evacuation and Reentry Management -
MC03 - Road Weather Data Collection - Farmington
MC04 - Weather Information Processing and Distribution - NMDOT
MC06 - Winter Maintenance - Farmington
MC07 - Roadway Maintenance and Construction - Farmington
MC08 - Work Zone Management - Farmington
MC10 - Maintenance and Construction Activity Coordination -
Functional Requirements:

Collect Traffic Surveillance

  • The center shall monitor, analyze, and store traffic sensor data (speed, volume, occupancy) collected from field elements under remote control of the center.
  • The center shall monitor, analyze, and distribute traffic images from CCTV systems under remote control of the center.
  • The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding sensor and surveillance data collection, analysis, storage, and distribution.
  • The center shall maintain a database of surveillance equipment and sensors and associated data (including the roadway on which they are located, the type of data collected, and the ownership of each )

TMC Incident Detection

  • The center shall receive inputs from the Alerting and Advisory System concerning the possibility or occurrence of severe weather, terrorist activity, or other major emergency, including information provided by the Emergency Alert System.
  • The center shall receive inputs concerning upcoming events that would effect the traffic network from event promoters and traveler information service providers.
  • The center shall exchange incident and threat information with emergency management centers as well as maintenance and construction centers; including notification of existence of incident and expected severity, location, time and nature of incident.
  • The center shall support requests from emergency management centers and border inspection systems to remotely control sensor and surveillance equipment located in the field.
  • The center shall provide road network conditions and traffic images to emergency management centers to support the detection, verification, and classification of incidents.
  • The center shall provide video and traffic sensor control commands to the field equipment to detect and verify incidents.

TMC Incident Dispatch Coordination/Communication

  • The center shall exchange alert information and status with emergency management centers. The information includes notification of a major emergency such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, or child abduction for distribution to the public. The information may include the alert originator, the nature of the emergency, the geographic area affected by the emergency, the effective time period, and information and instructions necessary for the public to respond to the alert. This may also identify specific information that should not be released to the public.
  • The center shall coordinate planning for incidents with emergency management centers - including pre-planning activities for disaster response, evacuation, and recovery operations.
  • The center shall coordinate information and controls with other traffic management centers.

TMC In-Vehicle Signing Management

  • The center shall format and output variable sign information such as traffic and road conditions to field equipment that supports in-vehicle signage communications.
  • The center shall format and output advisory information, such as detour information, wide-area alerts, work zone intrusion information, and other special information to field equipment that supports in-vehicle signage communications.

TMC Probe Information Collection

  • The center shall collect traffic probe data from vehicles via roadside field equipment.
  • 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.
  • The center shall assimilate current and forecast traffic conditions based on collected probe data and distribute to other centers for dissemination to travelers.
  • The center shall collect operational status for the roadside probe data collection equipment.
  • The center shall collect fault data for the roadside probe data collection equipment for repair.

TMC Regional Traffic Management

  • The center shall exchange traffic information with other traffic management centers including incident information, congestion data, traffic data, signal timing plans, and real-time signal control information.
  • The center shall exchange traffic control information with other traffic management centers to support remote monitoring and control of traffic management devices (e.g. signs, sensors, signals, cameras, etc.).

TMC Environmental Monitoring

  • The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other measures.
  • The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
  • The center shall provide weather and road condition information to weather service providers and center personnel.
  • The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing.

TMC Signal Control

  • The center shall remotely control traffic signal controllers.
  • The center shall accept notifications of pedestrian calls.
  • The center shall collect traffic signal controller operational status and compare against the control information sent by the center.
  • The center shall collect traffic signal controller fault data from the field.
  • The center shall manage (define, store and modify) control plans to coordinate signalized intersections, to be engaged at the direction of center personnel or according to a daily schedule.
  • The center shall implement control plans to coordinate signalized intersections based on data from sensors.
  • The center shall maintain traffic signal coordination including synchronizing clocks throughout the system.

TMC Traffic Information Dissemination

  • The center shall remotely control dynamic messages signs for dissemination of traffic and other information to drivers.
  • The center shall collect operational status for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.).
  • The center shall distribute traffic data to maintenance and construction centers, transit centers, emergency management centers, and traveler information providers.

Traffic Equipment Maintenance

  • The center shall collect and store sensor (traffic, pedestrian, multimodal crossing) operational status.
  • The center shall collect and store CCTV surveillance system (traffic, pedestrian) operational status.
  • The center shall collect and store sensor (traffic, pedestrian, multimodal crossing) fault data and send to the maintenance center for repair.
  • The center shall collect and store CCTV surveillance system (traffic, pedestrian) fault data send to the maintenance center for repair.
  • The center shall collect environmental sensor equipment fault data and send to the maintenance center for repair.

TMC Work Zone Traffic Management

  • The center shall receive work zone images from a maintenance center.
  • The center shall remotely control driver information systems (such as dynamic messages signs, highway advisory radios) to advise drivers of activity around a work zone.

TMC Evacuation Support

  • The center shall coordinate planning for evacuation with emergency management centers - including pre-planning activities such as establishing routes, areas to be evacuated, timing, etc.
  • The center shall coordinate information and controls with other traffic management centers.

TMC Lighting System Control

  • The center shall remotely control electrical lighting systems.
  • The center shall collect lighting system operational status and compare against the control information sent by the center.
  • The center shall collect lighting system fault data from the field and send to the maintenance center for repair.

Last updated: 06-30-15