ITS Element: Commercial Vehicles

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Description: Commercial vehicles that interact with the transportation elements for weight in motion and Hazmat reporting.
Status: Existing
Stakeholder: Commercial Fleet Owners
Mapping: Commercial Vehicle Subsystem

Interfaces:

City of Youngstown Public Safety Dispatch
Fleet and Freight Management
Mahoning County 9-1-1 Center
Mahoning County Emergency Management
Ohio State Highway Patrol Posts
OSHP Weigh-In-Motion Stations
Trumbull County 9-1-1 Center
Trumbull County Emergency Management Center
Youngstown Region Inland Port
Market Packages: CVO01 - Fleet Administration - Eastgate Region
CVO03 - Electronic Clearance - Youngstown Regional Inland Port
CVO06 - Weigh-In-Motion - OSHP
CVO10 - HAZMAT Management - Eastgate Region
Functional Requirements:

On-board Cargo Monitoring

  • The commercial vehicle shall compute the location of the commercial vehicle and its freight equipment.
  • The commercial vehicle shall monitor on-board systems and record measures such as weight, vehicle security status, vehicle safety status, vehicle identity, driver status, driver safety status, distance traveled, and brake condition.
  • The commercial vehicle shall monitor information concerning the freight equipment including cargo type, HAZMAT designation (if any) for the cargo, cargo weight, the type of container in which the cargo is held, safety condition of the cargo, etc.
  • The commercial vehicle shall forward information concerning the freight equipment on to its fleet and freight management center as well as the roadside check facility.
  • The commercial vehicle shall send notification of a hazmat spill to appropriate emergency management center in case of an incident including the information from cargo sensors, vehicle location, and the carrier identification.

On-board CV Electronic Data

  • The commercial vehicle shall receive pass/pull-in messages from the roadside check facilities and present them to the driver in either audible or visual forms.
  • The commercial vehicle shall respond to requests to provide data accumulated on-board the vehicle to roadside check facilities for inspection including driver logs, electronic identifiers, credentials, border clearance data, and other screening data such as cargo status, hazmat identifiers, out of service status, vehicle axle weight, vehicle weight, and time.
  • The commercial vehicle shall respond to requests to provide the identity, status and other information from the electronic cargo lock tag, if so equipped, to roadside check facilities, including border crossings.
  • The commercial vehicle shall support an interface to a commercial vehicle driver that is also acting in the role of a commercial vehicle fleet manager to set up routes, pay necessary taxes, obtain proper credentials, and write the identifiers to the electronic tag for the driver, vehicle, and carrier.

On-board Trip Monitoring

  • The commercial vehicle shall compute the location of the commercial vehicle and its freight equipment based on inputs from commercial vehicle measures (e.g. identity, distance traveled, etc.) and a positioning system.
  • The commercial vehicle shall provide details of the route input from the commercial vehicle fleet management center.
  • The commercial vehicle shall provide warnings to the driver and the commercial vehicle fleet management center when the vehicle's location has deviated from its planned route.
  • The commercial vehicle shall maintain the driver's daily log, vehicle location, mileage, and trip activity (includes screening, inspection and border clearance event data as well as fare payments) and distribute it to the driver and to the commercial vehicle fleet management center upon request.
  • The commercial vehicle shall provide on-board vehicle data to the commercial vehicle fleet management center upon request - includes location, credentials, driver license citations, fuel purchase data, identity details, inspection data, log data, service records, safety systems diagnostics, and freight equipment data.
  • The commercial vehicle shall maintain the interface between the vehicle, its driver, and the commercial vehicle fleet management center for dispatch, routing, and special instructions as well as payment, and enrollment information.

Last updated: 01-30-14