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Basic Information Broadcast
- The center shall disseminate traffic and highway condition information to travelers, including incident information, detours and road closures, event information, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes.
- The center shall disseminate maintenance and construction information to travelers, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities.
- The center shall disseminate transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information to travelers.
- The center shall disseminate parking information to travelers, including location, availability, and fees.
- The center shall disseminate toll fee information to travelers.
- The center shall disseminate weather information to travelers.
- The center shall disseminate event information to travelers.
- The center shall disseminate air quality information to travelers.
- The center shall provide the capability to support requests from the media for traffic and incident data.
- The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to control the type and update frequency of broadcast traveler information.
TMC Incident Dispatch Coordination/Communication
- The center shall receive inputs concerning upcoming events that would effect the traffic network from event promoters, traveler information service providers, media, border crossings, and rail operations centers.
- The center shall provide road network conditions and traffic images to emergency management centers, maintenance and construction centers, and traveler information service providers.
- The center shall exchange road network status assessment information with emergency management and maintenance centers including an assessment of damage sustained by the road network including location and extent of the damage, estimate of remaining capacity, required closures, alternate routes, necessary restrictions, and time frame for repair and recovery.
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 Traffic Information Dissemination
- The center shall retrieve locally stored traffic information, including current and forecasted traffic information, road and weather conditions, traffic incident information, information on diversions and alternate routes, closures, and special traffic restrictions (lane/shoulder use, weight restrictions, width restrictions, HOV requirements), and the definition of the road network itself.
- The center shall distribute traffic data to maintenance and construction centers, transit centers, emergency management centers, and traveler information providers.
- The center shall distribute traffic data to the media; the capability to provide the information in both data stream and graphical display shall be supported.
MCM Environmental Information Processing
- The center shall disseminate current and forecasted road weather and road condition information to weather service providers (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services) as well as other agencies including traffic, emergency, and transit management, traveler information providers, rail operations centers, media, and other maintenance management centers.
MCM Winter Maintenance Management
- The center shall provide status information about scheduled winter maintenance activities including anticipated closures and impact to the roadway, alternate routes, anticipated delays, closure times, and durations. The information is provided to other management centers such as traffic, emergency, transit, traveler information providers, other maintenance centers, and the media.
MCM Work Activity Coordination
- The center shall provide work zone activities affecting the road network including the nature of the maintenance or construction activity, location, impact to the roadway, expected time(s) and duration of impact, anticipated delays, alternate routes, and suggested speed limits. This information may be augmented with images that provide a visual indication of current work zone status and traffic impacts.
MCM Work Zone Management
- The center shall disseminate work zone information to other agencies and centers including traffic, transit, emergency management centers, other maintenance centers, traveler information providers, and the media.
ISP Emergency Traveler Information
- The center shall disseminate emergency evacuation information to the traveler interface systems, including evacuation zones, shelter information, available transportation modes, road closures and detours, changes to transit services, and traffic and road conditions at the origin, destination, and along the evacuation routes.
- The center shall provide evacuation information to shelter providers.
- The center shall disseminate wide-area alert information to the traveler interface systems, including major emergencies such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, child abductions, severe weather watches and warnings, military activities, and law enforcement warnings.
- The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to control the type and update frequency of emergency and wide-area alert information distributed to travelers.
Traveler Telephone Information
- The center shall provide the capability to process voice-formatted requests for traveler information from a traveler telephone information system, and return the information in the requested format.
- The center shall provide the capability to process dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF)-based requests (touch-tone) for traveler information from a traveler telephone information system.
- The center shall provide the capability to process traveler information requests from a traveler telephone information system.
- The center shall provide information on traffic conditions in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
- The center shall provide work zone and roadway maintenance information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
- The center shall provide roadway environment conditions information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
- The center shall provide weather and event information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
- The center shall provide transit service information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
- The center shall provide yellow pages services information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
- The center shall provide current ferry and rail schedule and airport status information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
- The center shall provide the capability to support both specific caller requests as well as bulk upload of regional traveler information.
- The center shall receive and forward region-specific wide-area alert and advisory information to the traveler telephone information system, including major emergencies such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, child abductions, severe weather watches and warnings, military activities, and law enforcement warnings.
ISP Traveler Data Collection
- The center shall collect, process, and store traffic and highway condition information, including incident information, detours and road closures, event information, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes.
- The center shall collect, process, and store maintenance and construction information, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities.
- The center shall collect, process, and store transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information.
- The center shall collect, process, and store parking information, including location, availability, and fees.
- The center shall collect, process, and store toll fee information.
- The center shall collect, process, and store current and forecast road conditions and surface weather conditions.
- The center shall collect, process, and store event information.
- The center shall collect, process, and store air quality information.
- The center shall collect, process, and store border crossing information.
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