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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 event 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.
Collect Traffic Surveillance
Infrastructure Provided Trip Planning
- The center shall provide the capability to provide specific pre-trip and enroute directions to travelers (and drivers), including costs, arrival times, and transfer points.
- The center shall generate route plans based on current and/or predicted conditions of the road network, scheduled maintenance and construction work activities, and work zone activities.
- The center shall generate route plans based on current asset restrictions, such as height and weight restrictions on tunnels or bridges.
- The center shall generate route plans based on current or forecasted weather.
Interactive Infrastructure Information
- The center shall disseminate customized traffic and highway condition information to travelers, including incident information, detours and road closures, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes upon request.
- The center shall disseminate customized maintenance and construction information to travelers, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities upon request.
- The center shall provide the capability to exchange information with another traveler information service provider current or predicted data for road links that are outside the area served by the local supplier.
- The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to control the type and update frequency of traveler information.
TMC Incident Detection
TMC Incident Dispatch Coordination/Communication
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 Environmental Monitoring
- The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information using a combination of weather service provider information (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services), data from roadway maintenance operations, and environmental data collected from sensors deployed on and about the roadway.
- The center shall provide weather and road condition information to weather service providers and center personnel.
TMC Traffic Information Dissemination
- The center shall collect operational status for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.).
- The center shall collect fault data for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.) for repair.
- 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.
ISP Data Collection
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 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 event information.
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