Project Name:

Project Details: Kauai Bus Automated Vehicle Location (AVL)/ Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD)

Description:

This project will add automated vehicle location (AVL) to all buses and paratransit vehicles, along with computer aided dispatch (CAD) for fleet management.

Status:

Planned

Timeframe:

Near-Term

Geographic Scope:

Kauai

Project ID:

K-23

Stakeholders:

Service Packages:

Project Inventory:

On-board Schedule Management

• The transit vehicle shall receive a vehicle assignment including transit route information, transit service instructions, traffic information, road conditions, and other information for the operator.
• The transit vehicle shall use the route information and its current location to determine the deviation from the predetermined schedule.
• The transit vehicle shall calculate the estimated times of arrival (ETA) at transit stops.
• The transit vehicle shall determine scenarios to correct the schedule deviation.
• The transit vehicle shall provide the schedule deviations and instructions for schedule corrections to the transit vehicle operator if the deviation is small, or the transit vehicle is operating in an urban area.
• The transit vehicle shall send the schedule deviation and estimated arrival time information to the center.

On-board Transit Trip Monitoring

• The transit vehicle shall track the current location of the transit vehicle.
• The transit vehicle shall support the computation of the location of a transit vehicle using on-board sensors to augment the location determination function. This may include proximity to the transit stops or other known reference points as well as recording trip length.
• The transit vehicle shall record transit trip monitoring data including vehicle mileage and fuel usage.

Transit Center Fixed-Route Operations

• The center shall generate transit routes and schedules based on such factors as parameters input by the system operator, road network conditions, incident information, operational data on current routes and schedules, and digitized map data.
• The center shall provide the interface to the system operator to control the generation of new routes and schedules (transit services) including the ability to review and update the parameters used by the routes and schedules generation processes and to initiate these processes
• The center shall be able to generate special routes and schedules to support an incident, disaster, evacuation, or other emergency.
• The center shall dispatch fixed route or flexible route transit vehicles
• The center shall collect transit operational data for use in the generation of routes and schedules.
• The center shall exchange information with Maintenance and Construction Operations concerning work zones, roadway conditions, asset restrictions, work plans, etc.
• The center shall disseminate up-to-date schedules and route information to other centers for fixed and flexible route services.

Transit Center Vehicle Tracking

• The center shall monitor the locations of all transit vehicles within its network.
• The center shall determine adherence of transit vehicles to their assigned schedule.
• The center shall provide transit operational data to traveler information service providers.