Eastgate Regional ITS Architecture Update

NiTTS AVL System

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Description

Installation of AVL on all NiTTS vehicles.

Status

Planned

Timeframe

Medium

Geographic Scope

Public Transportation

Service Scope

Costs - $1,000/bus; Operational & Maintenance Costs (per year) 2% of capital costs.

Stakeholders

Niles-Trumbull Transit System (NiTTS)

Inventory

NiTTS Demand Response Dispatch

NiTTS Demand Response Vehicles

Services

APTS01-2 - Transit Vehicle Tracking - NiTTS

Functional Areas

On-board Transit Trip Monitoring

• The transit vehicle shall track the current location of the transit vehicle.
• The transit vehicle shall support the computation of the location of a transit vehicle using on-board sensors to augment the location determination function. This may include proximity to the transit stops or other known reference points as well as recording trip length.

Transit Center Vehicle Tracking

• The center shall monitor the locations of all transit vehicles within its network.

Interfaces

Source	Architecture Flows	Destination
NiTTS Demand Response Vehicles	transit vehicle location data	NiTTS Demand Response Dispatch
NiTTS Demand Response Vehicles	transit vehicle schedule performance	NiTTS Demand Response Dispatch

Standards

SDO	Document ID	Title	Type
APTA	APTA TCIP-S-001 3.0.3	Standard for Transit Communications Interface Profiles	Message/Data

Operational Concepts

Stakeholder	Roles and Responsibilities
Niles-Trumbull Transit System (NiTTS)
	Coordinate services with WRTA. (future)
	Provide demand response services to Trumbull County.