ITS Element: NMDOT Traffic Data Collection System

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Description: The traffic data collection system (sensors, etc.) that are owned and operated by NMDOT.
Status: Existing
Stakeholder: NMDOT - New Mexico Department of Transportation
Mapping: Roadway
Other Roadway

Interfaces:

NMDOT District 1 Maintenance Units Dispatch
NMDOT Statewide TMC
Service Packages: MC07 - Roadway Maintenance and Construction - NMDOT (1 of 3)
MC08 - Work Zone Management - NMDOT
Functional Requirements:

Roadway Data Collection

  • The field element shall collect traffic, road, and environmental conditions information.
  • The field element shall include the sensors and supporting roadside devices that sense, collect, and send traffic, road, and environmental conditions information to a center for archival.
  • The field element shall collect sensor status and sensor faults from roadside equipment and send it along with the recorded data to a center for archival.

Roadway Field Device Monitoring

  • The field element shall monitor the operational status (state of the device, configuration, and fault data) of connected sensors (such as traffic, infrastructure, environmental, security, speed) and devices (such as highway advisory radio, dynamic message signs, automated roadway treatment systems, barrier and safeguard systems, cameras, traffic signals, ramp meters, short range communications equipment, security surveillance equipment).
  • The field element shall send operational status of connected field equipment to the maintenance center.
  • The field element shall send collected fault data to the maintenance center for repair.
  • The field element shall include a local interface that provides operational status and fault data for connected field equipment to field personnel.
  • The field element shall include a local interface that allows field personnel to command diagnostic tests on connected field equipment.

Last updated: 08-08-14