Equipment Package: On-board Transit Trip Monitoring

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Description: This on-board equipment package tracks vehicle location, monitors fuel usage, collects operational status (doors opened/closed, running times, etc.) and sends the collected, time stamped data to the Transit Management Subsystem.
Included In: Local Transit Vehicles
Regional BRT Vehicles
Functional Requirements 1 - The transit vehicle shall compute the location of the transit vehicle based on inputs from a vehicle location determination function.
2 - 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.
3 - The transit vehicle shall record transit trip monitoring data including vehicle mileage and fuel usage.
4 - The transit vehicle shall record transit trip monitoring data including operational status information such as doors open/closed, running times, etc.
5 - The transit vehicle shall send the transit vehicle trip monitoring data to center-based trip monitoring functions.

Last updated: 12-31-08