New York Sub-Regional ITS Architecture

Element Expanded Functional Requirements: Westchester County Bee Line Web Site

Functional Area: Infrastructure Provided Trip Planning
  1. 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.
  2. The center shall include bicycle routes, walkways, skyways, and multi-use trails in the pre-trip and enroute directions it provides to travelers.
  3. The center shall support on-line route guidance for travelers using personal devices (such as PDAs).
  4. The center shall support on-line route guidance for drivers in vehicles.
  5. The center shall support on-line route guidance for specialty vehicles, such as commercial vehicles.
  6. 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.
  7. The center shall generate route plans based on transit services, including fares, schedules, and requirements for travelers with special needs.
  8. The center shall generate route plans based on current asset restrictions, such as height and weight restrictions on tunnels or bridges.
  9. The center shall generate route plans based on current or forecasted weather.
  10. The center shall generate route plans based on ferry, rail, air, or other multimodal transportation data.
  11. The center shall exchange route segment information with other centers outside the area served by the local center.
  12. The center shall generate trips based on the use of more than one mode of transport.
  13. The center shall use the preferences and constraints specified by the traveler in the trip request to select the most appropriate mode of transport.
  14. The center shall provide the capability for the traveler to confirm the proposed trip plan.
  15. The center shall log route plans, particularly for special vehicles such as those containing hazardous materials, over-sized vehicles, or motorcades, with a traffic center.
  16. 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 to determine vehicle and non-vehicle routes, trip planning, and on-line vehicle guidance.
  17. The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to control route calculation parameters.
Functional Area: Interactive Infrastructure Information
  1. 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.
  2. The center shall disseminate customized maintenance and construction information to travelers, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities upon request.
  3. The center shall disseminate customized transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information to travelers upon request.
  4. The center shall disseminate customized parking information to travelers, including location, availability, and fees upon request.
  5. The center shall disseminate customized toll fee information to travelers upon request.
  6. The center shall disseminate customized weather information to travelers upon request.
  7. The center shall disseminate customized multimodal transportation service information (for example, from ferry and airline operators), including transfer points and other information, to travelers upon request.
  8. The center shall disseminate customized event information to travelers upon request.
  9. The center shall disseminate customized air quality information to travelers upon request.
  10. The center shall provide all traveler information based on the traveler's current location or a specific location identified by the traveler, and filter or customize the provided information accordingly.
  11. The center shall accept traveler profiles for determining the type of personalized data to send to the traveler.
  12. The center shall manage payment for services, such as tolls, transit fares, parking lot charges, map updates, and advanced payment for tolls, and provide transaction success or failure details.
  13. The center shall support requests for traveler information and advanced payment for traveler services from commercial fleet operators.
  14. 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.
  15. The center shall manage updates of digitized map data and provide updates to traveler interface systems upon request.
  16. The center shall provide the capability to support requests from the media for traffic and incident data.
  17. The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to control the type and update frequency of traveler information.
Functional Area: Traveler Telephone Information
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. The center shall provide the capability to process traveler information requests from a traveler telephone information system.
  4. The center shall provide information on traffic conditions in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  5. The center shall provide work zone and roadway maintenance information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  6. The center shall provide roadway environment conditions information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  7. The center shall provide weather and event information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  8. The center shall provide transit service information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  9. The center shall provide yellow pages services information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  10. The center shall provide current ferry and rail schedule and airport status information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  11. The center shall provide the capability to support both specific caller requests as well as bulk upload of regional traveler information.
  12. 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.
Functional Area: ISP Traveler Data Collection
  1. 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.
  2. The center shall collect, process, and store maintenance and construction information, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities.
  3. The center shall collect, process, and store transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information.
  4. The center shall collect, process, and store parking information, including location, availability, and fees.
  5. The center shall collect, process, and store toll fee information.
  6. The center shall collect, process, and store current and forecast road conditions and surface weather conditions.
  7. The center shall collect, process, and store event information.
  8. The center shall collect, process, and store air quality information.
  9. The center shall collect, process, and store border crossing information.
Functional Area: ISP Traveler Information Alerts
  1. The center shall accept traveler profiles that establish recurring trip characteristics including route, mode, and timeframe information.
  2. The center shall accept traveler profiles that define alert thresholds that establish the severity and types of alerts that are provided to each traveler.
  3. The center shall disseminate personalized traffic alerts reporting congestion, incidents, delays, detours and road closures that may impact a current or planned trip.
  4. The center shall disseminate personalized transit alerts reporting transit delays and service interruptions.
  5. The center shall disseminate personalized parking alerts reporting parking availability and closures.
  6. The center shall disseminate personalized road weather alerts reporting adverse road and weather conditions.
  7. The center shall disseminate personalized multimodal transportation service alerts including ferry and air travel delays, port closures, and service interruptions.
  8. The center shall disseminate personalized event alerts reporting special event impacts on the transportation system.
  9. The center shall provide an operator interface that supports monitoring and management of subscribers and the content and format of alert messages.