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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 manage large deviations of individual transit vehicles, deviations in rural areas, and deviations of large numbers of vehicles.
- The center shall generate the necessary corrective actions which may involve more than the vehicles concerned and more far reaching action, such as, the introduction of extra vehicles, wide area signal priority by traffic management, the premature termination of some services, etc.
Transit Center Multi-Modal Coordination
- The center shall coordinate schedules and services between transit agencies, traffic management, maintenance and construction operations, parking management, and other surface or air transportation modes.
- The center shall share transfer cluster and transfer point information with multimodal transportation service providers, other transit agencies, and traveler information service providers. A transfer cluster is a collection of stop points, stations, or terminals where transfers can be made conveniently.
- The center shall accept requests from traffic management to change routes and schedules as part of the implementation of demand management strategies.
- The center shall coordinate transit services for special events, planning services for the event and managing transit services on the day of the event.
- The center shall provide transit operations personnel with the capability to control and monitor transit service coordination activities.
Transit Center Security
- The center shall monitor transit vehicle operational data to determine if the transit vehicle is off-route and assess whether a security incident is occurring.
- The center shall receive reports of emergencies on-board transit vehicles entered directly be the transit vehicle operator or from a traveler through interfaces such as panic buttons or alarm switches.
- The center shall support the back-office portion of functionality to authenticate transit vehicle operators.
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 support an interface with a map update provider, or other appropriate data sources, through which updates of digitized map data can be obtained and used as a background for transit tracking and dispatch.
- The center shall provide transit operational data to traveler information service providers.
- The center shall provide collected transit probe data to traffic management centers and traveler information service providers for use in measuring current traffic conditions.
Transit Evacuation Support
- The center shall manage the use of transit resources to support evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency.
- The center shall coordinate regional evacuation plans with Emergency Management - identifying the transit role in an evacuation and the transit resources that would be used.
- The center shall coordinate the use of transit and school bus fleets during an evacuation, supporting evacuation of those with special needs and the general population.
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