Roadside Safety Inspection System - Commercial Vehicle Check Functionality
Subsystem Description
The Commercial Vehicle Check Subsystem (CVCS) supports automated vehicle identification at mainline speeds for credential checking, roadside safety inspections, and weigh-in-motion using two-way data exchange. These capabilities include providing warnings to the commercial vehicle drivers, their fleet managers, and proper authorities of any safety problems that have been identified, accessing and examining historical safety data, and automatically deciding whether to allow the vehicle to pass or require it to stop with operator manual override. The Commercial Vehicle Check Subsystem also provides supplemental inspection services to current capabilities by supporting expedited brake inspections, the use of operator hand-held devices, mobile screening sites, on-board safety database access, and the enrollment of vehicles and carriers in the electronic clearance program.
Functional Area: Citation and Accident Electronic Recording
Roadside check facility equipment records results of roadside inspections and forwards information to the commercial vehicle administration center. Includes accident reports, violations, citations, and the daily site activity data.
| ID | Requirement | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The roadside check facility equipment shall record the results of roadside inspections carried using an inspector's hand held terminal interface. | Planned |
| 2 | The roadside check facility equipment shall provide an interface for an inspector to add comments to the inspection results. | Planned |
| 3 | The roadside check facility equipment shall forward results of the roadside inspections to the commercial vehicle administration center either as needed or on a periodic basis. These reports include accident reports, violation notifications, citations, and daily site activity logs. | Planned |
Functional Area: Roadside Electronic Screening
Roadside check facility equipment to communicate with commercial vehicles at mainline speeds - reading tag data, identification, weight and vehicle characteristics, and credential checking. Determines whether a pull-in message should be generated, allowing for inspectors to override.
| ID | Requirement | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The roadside check facility equipment shall detect the presence of commercial vehicles and freight equipment approaching a facility. Sensors can differentiate between different types of vehicles and determine the number of axles, gross vehicle weight, and the identification of the vehicle and its cargo. | Planned |
| 2 | The roadside check facility equipment shall receive the credential and credentials status information (e.g. snapshots) from the commercial vehicle administration center to maintain an up to date list of which vehicles have been cleared (enrolled) to potentially pass through without stopping. | Planned |
| 5 | The roadside check facility equipment shall request and input electronic screening data from the commercial vehicle's electronic tag data. | Planned |
| 7 | The roadside check facility equipment shall send a pass/pull-in notification to the commercial vehicle and its driver based on the information received from the vehicle, the administration center, enforcement agencies, and the inspector. The message may be sent to the on-board equipment in the commercial vehicle or transmitted to the driver using equipment such as dynamic message signs, red-green lights, flashing signs, etc. | Planned |
| 10 | The roadside check facility equipment shall send a record of daily activities at the facility including summaries of screening events and inspections to the commercial vehicle administration center. | Planned |
Functional Area: Roadside Safety and Security Inspection
Roadside check facility equipment to provide the capabilities to automate the roadside safety inspection process including wireless roadside inspections and use of hand held devices to rapidly inspect the vehicle and driver.
| ID | Requirement | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The roadside check facility equipment shall receive information concerning commercial vehicles and freight equipment approaching a facility that are being pulled in for safety and security inspections. | Planned |
| 2 | The roadside check facility equipment shall receive the safety and security inspection and status information from the commercial vehicle administration center to include information such as safety ratings, inspection summaries, and violation summaries. Corresponds to the safety portion of CVISN "snapshots." | Planned |
| 3 | The roadside check facility equipment shall provide an interface to inspectors in the field to allow them to safety inspection data including overrides to the pull-in decisions made by the system. | Planned |
| 4 | The roadside check facility equipment shall request and input electronic safety data from the commercial vehicle's electronic tag data. This includes driver logs, on-board safety data, safety inspection records, commercial vehicle breach information, as well as freight equipment information. | Planned |
| 5 | The roadside check facility equipment shall send a pass/pull-in notification to the commercial vehicle and its driver based on the information received from the vehicle, the administration center, and the inspector. The message may be sent to the on-board equipment in the commercial vehicle or transmitted to the driver using equipment such as dynamic message signs, red-green lights, flashing signs, etc. | Planned |