ITS Element: City of Las Cruces RWIS

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Description: Road Weather Information System (RWIS) operated and maintained by the City of Las Cruces.
Status: Planned
Stakeholder: City of Las Cruces Transportation Department
Mapping: Roadway
Other Roadway

Interfaces:

City of Las Cruces Maintenance Dispatch
City of Las Cruces Traffic Management Center
Service Packages: MC03 - Road Weather Data Collection - City of Las Cruces
MC07 - Roadway Maintenance and Construction - City of Las Cruces (1 of 2)
Functional Requirements:

Roadway Environmental Monitoring

  • The field element shall include surface and sub-surface environmental sensors that measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other measures.
  • The field element shall include environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
  • The field element's environmental sensors shall be remotely controlled by a traffic management center.
  • The field element shall remotely aggregate environmental sensor data with environmental data collected from maintenance and construction vehicles.
  • The field element shall provide weather and road surface condition data to centers.

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