ITS Element: Municipal Public Works Dispatch

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Description: The maintenance and construction division for municipalities. Operates as the dispatch function for the municipalities' maintenance and construction vehicles as well as snow plows.
Status: Existing
Stakeholder: Municipalities-Statewide
Mapping: Maintenance and Construction Management
Other MCM

Interfaces:

BIA Roads
BIA/Tribal Public Safety Dispatch
City of Albuquerque Public Works Dispatch
County Public Works Dispatch
County Traffic Operations Center
Independent School District Dispatch
Local Transit Dispatch
Municipal Equipment Repair Facility
Municipal ITS Field Equipment
Municipal Public Information System
Municipal Public Safety Dispatch
Municipal Public Works Vehicles
Municipal Storage Facility
Municipal Traffic Operations Center-Statewide
National Weather Service
New Mexico State Radio Communications Bureau (RCB)
New Mexico Statewide Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
New Mexico Travel and Tourism Website
NM DPS District Dispatch Center
NMDOT District Maintenance Office
NMDOT District Maintenance Units Dispatch
NMDOT Park and Ride Dispatch
NMRoads
North Central RTD Operations
Other Municipal Public Works Dispatches
Other Regional Transit Districts
Private Weather Information Provider
Rail Runner Operations
Regional Emergency Communications Center
Regional Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
Rio Metro RTD Operations Center
South Central RTD Operations
Southwest RTD Operations
Tribal Public Safety Dispatch-Statewide
Tribal Road Maintenance
Tribal Transportation Operations
Service Packages: APTS02 - Transit Fixed-Route Operations - South Central RTD
APTS02 - Transit Fixed-Route Operations - Local Transit
APTS02 - Transit Fixed-Route Operations - Rail Runner
APTS02 - Transit Fixed-Route Operations - Independent School Districts
APTS02 - Transit Fixed-Route Operations - North Central RTD
APTS03 - Demand Response Transit Operations - North Central RTD
APTS03 - Demand Response Transit Operations - Rio Metro RTD
APTS03 - Demand Response Transit Operations - Local Transit
APTS03 - Demand Response Transit Operations - South Central RTD
APTS03 - Demand Response Transit Operations - Southwest RTD
ATIS01 - Broadcast Traveler Information - Municipal Public Information System (Inputs)
ATIS02 - Interactive Traveler Information - New Mexico Travel and Tourism (Inputs) (1 of 3)
ATMS08 - Traffic Incident Management System - Tribal (TM to MCM)
ATMS08 - Traffic Incident Management System - Municipalities (EM to MCM)
ATMS08 - Traffic Incident Management System - Municipalities (TM to MCM)
ATMS08 - Traffic Incident Management System - Tribal (MCM to MCM)
ATMS08 - Traffic Incident Management System - County (MCM to MCM)
ATMS08 - Traffic Incident Management System - Municipalities (MCM to MCM)
ATMS08 - Traffic Incident Management System - County (TM to MCM)
ATMS08 - Traffic Incident Management System - NMDOT District Maintenance (MCM to MCM)
EM05 - Transportation Infrastructure Protection - NMDOT (2 of 2)
EM06 - Wide-Area Alert - Amber Alert (2 of 2)
EM08 - Disaster Response and Recovery - State EOC (2 of 3)
EM08 - Disaster Response and Recovery - Regional EOC (2 of 3)
EM09 - Evacuation and Reentry Management - Regional EOC (2 of 2)
MC01 - Maintenance and Construction Vehicle and Equipment Tracking - Municipal and County
MC02 - Maintenance and Construction Vehicle Maintenance - Municipalities
MC03 - Road Weather Data Collection - Municipalities
MC04 - Weather Information Processing and Distribution - Municipalities (1 of 2)
MC04 - Weather Information Processing and Distribution - Municipalities (2 of 2)
MC04 - Weather Information Processing and Distribution - Counties (1 of 2)
MC06 - Winter Maintenance - NMDOT
MC06 - Winter Maintenance - Municipalities
MC06 - Winter Maintenance - Counties
MC06 - Winter Maintenance - BIA
MC06 - Winter Maintenance - Tribal
MC07 - Roadway Maintenance and Construction - Municipalities
MC08 - Work Zone Management - Tribal
MC08 - Work Zone Management - NMDOT
MC08 - Work Zone Management - Municipal Public Works
MC08 - Work Zone Management - BIA
MC08 - Work Zone Management - County
MC10 - Maintenance and Construction Activity Coordination - Activity Coordination - NMDOT (1 of 3)
MC10 - Maintenance and Construction Activity Coordination - Municipalities (1 of 2)
MC10 - Maintenance and Construction Activity Coordination - Municipalities (2 of 2)
MC10 - Maintenance and Construction Activity Coordination - Counties (1 of 2)
MC10 - Maintenance and Construction Activity Coordination - BIA (1 of 2)
MC10 - Maintenance and Construction Activity Coordination - Tribal (1 of 2)
Functional Requirements:

MCM Maintenance Decision Support

  • The center shall provide the center personnel with tailored external information, including weather or road condition observations, forecasted weather information or road conditions, current usage of treatments and materials, available resources, equipment and vehicle availability, road network information, and source reliability information.
  • The center shall tailor the decision support information to include filtering (selection from a large amount of external information), error reduction ('smoothing' the information), fusion (combination of disparate information to match the decision needs), and analysis (creating the decision).
  • The center shall provide an interface to the center personnel to input control parameters for the decision support process and receive decisions or information presentation.
  • The center shall provide dispatch information to maintenance and construction vehicles based on the outputs of the decision support system, including recommended roadway treatment actions.

MCM Environmental Information Processing

  • The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing.
  • 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) and local environmental sensor data.
  • The center shall use the various data inputs of environmental sensors and road weather data to develop a view of current and predicted road weather and road conditions.
  • 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.
  • The center shall provide value-added sector specific meteorological services with information on basic road facility and treatment information that supports forecasts for road conditions.

MCM Environmental Information Collection

  • The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other measures.
  • The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
  • 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 traffic and traveler information providers, and environmental data collected from sensors deployed on and about the roadway as well as the fleet of maintenance and construction vehicles and the broader population of vehicle probes.
  • The center shall provide weather and road condition information to weather service providers and center personnel.
  • The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing.
  • The center shall collect operational status for the roadside and vehicle-based environmental sensor equipment.
  • The center shall collect fault data for the roadside and vehicle-based environmental sensor equipment for repair.

MCM Incident Management

  • The center shall exchange incident and threat information with emergency management centers as well as traffic management centers; including notification of existence of incident and expected severity, location, time and nature of incident.
  • The center shall respond to requests from emergency management to provide maintenance and construction resources to implement response plans, assist in clean up, verify an incident, etc. This may also involve coordination with traffic management centers and other maintenance centers.
  • The center shall exchange road network status assessment information with emergency management and traffic management 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.

MCM Roadway Maintenance and Construction

  • The center shall maintain an interface with asset management systems to track the inventory, restrictions, repair needs and status updates of transportation assets (pavement, bridges, signs, etc.) including location, installation and materials information, vendor/contractor, current maintenance status, standard height, width, and weight restrictions.
  • The center shall respond to requests from emergency management and traffic management centers for hazard removal, field equipment repair, and other roadway maintenance.
  • The center shall exchange information with administrative systems to support the planning and scheduling of maintenance activities. This information includes: equipment and consumables resupply purchase request status, personnel qualifications including training and special certifications, environmental regulations and rules that may impact maintenance activities, and requests and project requirements from contract administration.
  • The center shall provide emergency management and traffic management centers with information about scheduled maintenance and construction work activities including anticipated closures and impact to the roadway, alternate routes, anticipated delays, closure times, and durations.
  • The center shall collect the status and fault data from roadside equipment, such as traffic, infrastructure, and environmental sensors, highway advisory radio and dynamic message signs, automated roadway treatment systems, barrier and safeguard systems, cameras, traffic signals and override equipment, ramp meters, short range communications equipment, security sensors and surveillance equipment, etc., and provide a cohesive view of equipment repair needs.
  • The center shall collect the status and fault data from the centers that operate the equipment, including data for traffic, infrastructure, and environmental sensors, highway advisory radio and dynamic message signs, automated roadway treatment systems, barrier and safeguard systems, cameras, traffic signals and override equipment, ramp meters, short range communications equipment, security sensors and surveillance equipment, etc., and provide a cohesive view of equipment repair needs.
  • The center shall receive equipment availability and materials storage status information from storage facilities to support the scheduling of roadway maintenance and construction activities.
  • 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 the scheduling of roadway maintenance and construction activities.
  • The center shall collect current and forecast traffic and weather information from traffic management centers and weather service providers (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services).
  • The center shall dispatch and route maintenance and construction vehicle drivers and support them with route-specific environmental, incident, advisory, threat, alert, and traffic congestion information.
  • The center shall manage an interface with center personnel to accept vehicle systems control information and remotely control maintenance and construction vehicle on-board equipment.

MCM Vehicle and Equipment Maintenance Management

  • The center shall collect and analyze vehicle diagnostics information from maintenance and construction vehicles. The information includes engine temperature, mileage, tire wear, brake wear, belt wear, and any warnings or alarms concerning the operational condition of the vehicle and ancillary equipment.
  • The center shall exchange information with equipment repair facilities including status and history of repairs concerning maintenance and construction vehicles. This information includes vehicle status and diagnostic information, vehicle utilization, and coordination of when vehicles will be available for preventative and corrective maintenance.
  • The center shall schedule preventive and corrective vehicle maintenance with the equipment repair facility based on fleet health reports, maintenance records, vehicle utilization and vehicle availability schedules.

MCM Vehicle Tracking

  • The center shall monitor the locations of all maintenance and construction vehicles and other equipment under its jurisdiction.
  • The center shall present location data to center personnel for the fleet of maintenance and construction vehicles and other equipment.

MCM Winter Maintenance Management

  • The center shall respond to requests from emergency management and traffic management centers for hazard removal, field equipment repair, and other winter roadway maintenance.
  • The center shall exchange information with administrative systems to support the planning and scheduling of winter maintenance activities. This information includes: equipment and consumables resupply purchase request status, personnel qualifications including training and special certifications, environmental regulations and rules that may impact maintenance activities, and requests and project requirements from contract administration.
  • 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.
  • The center shall collect real-time information on the state of the regional transportation system from other centers including current traffic and road conditions, weather conditions, special event and incident information and use the collected information to support winter maintenance operations.
  • The center shall dispatch and route winter maintenance vehicle drivers and support them with route- specific environmental, incident, advisory, threat, alert, and traffic congestion information.
  • The center shall determine the need for roadway treatment based on current and forecasted weather information, current usage of treatments and materials, available resources, requests for action from other agencies, and recommendations from the Maintenance Decision Support system, specifically under winter conditions. This supports winter maintenance such as plowing, treating, anti-icing, etc.
  • The center shall provide dispatch instructions for vehicle operators based on input parameters from center personnel, specifically for winter conditions. This could include a treatment route, treatment application rates, start and end times, and other treatment instructions.
  • The center shall support remote control of on-board maintenance and construction vehicle systems and field equipment that is remotely controlled by the vehicle such as adjusting material application rates and spread patterns.
  • The center shall assess the current status of all winter maintenance activities, including actual work activities performed, current locations and operational conditions of vehicles, materials and equipment inventories, field equipment status, environmental information, etc.

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.
  • The center shall provide status information about scheduled maintenance and construction 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, multimodal transportation providers, rail operations, and the media.
  • The center shall collect and respond to feedback concerning scheduled maintenance and construction activities with other management centers such as traffic, emergency, transit, and rail operations.
  • The center shall collect and disseminate asset restriction information levied on transportation asset usage based on infrastructure design, surveys, tests, or analyses. This includes standard facility design height, width, and weight restrictions, special restrictions such as spring weight restrictions, and temporary facility restrictions that are imposed during maintenance and construction.
  • The center shall exchange information with administrative systems to support the planning and scheduling of maintenance and construction activities. This information includes: equipment and consumables resupply purchase request status, personnel qualifications including training and special certifications, environmental regulations and rules that may impact maintenance activities, and requests and project requirements from contract administration.

MCM Work Zone Management

  • The center shall generate new work zone activity schedules for use by maintenance and construction vehicles, maintenance and construction operators, and for information coordination purposes.
  • The center shall control the collection of work zone status information including video images from cameras located in or near the work zone.
  • 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.
  • The center shall control traffic in work zones by providing remote control of dynamic message signs, highway advisory radio systems, gates, and barriers located in or near the work zone.
  • The center shall exchange information with administrative systems to support the planning and scheduling of work zone activities. This information includes: equipment and consumables resupply purchase request status, personnel qualifications including training and special certifications, environmental regulations and rules that may impact maintenance activities, and requests and project requirements from contract administration.

MCM Infrastructure Monitoring

  • The center shall remotely control and collect data from fixed infrastructure monitoring sensors that monitor vibration, stress, temperature, surface continuity, and other condition measures.

Last updated: 10-10-12