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Transit Center Fixed-Route Operations
- The center shall be able to generate special routes and schedules to support an incident, disaster, evacuation, or other emergency.
- The center shall collect transit operational data for use in the generation of routes and schedules.
- The center shall dispatch fixed route or flexible route transit vehicles
- The center shall disseminate up-to-date schedules and route information to other centers for fixed and flexible route services.
- The center shall exchange information with Maintenance and Construction Operations concerning work zones, roadway conditions, asset restrictions, work plans, etc.
- The center shall generate the necessary corrective actions which may involve more than the vehicles concerned and more far reaching action, such as, the introduction of extra vehicles, wide area signal priority by traffic management, the premature termina
- The center shall generate transit routes and schedules based on such factors as parameters input by the system operator, road network conditions, incident information, operational data on current routes and schedules, and digitized map data.
- The center shall manage large deviations of individual transit vehicles, deviations in rural areas, and deviations of large numbers of vehicles.
- The center shall provide an interface to the archive data repository to enable the operator to retrieve historical operating data for use in planning transit routes and schedules.
- The center shall provide instructions or corrective actions to the transit vehicle operators based upon operational needs.
- The center shall provide the interface to the system operator to control the generation of new routes and schedules (transit services) including the ability to review and update the parameters used by the routes and schedules generation processes and to i
Transit Center Multi-Modal Coordination
- The center shall accept requests from traffic management to change routes and schedules as part of the implementation of demand management strategies.
- The center shall coordinate transit services for special events, planning services for the event and managing transit services on the day of the event.
- The center shall provide transit operations personnel with the capability to control and monitor transit service coordination activities.
Transit Center Security
- The center shall coordinate the response to security incidents involving transit with other agencies including Emergency Management, other transit agencies, media, traffic management, and traveler information service providers.
- The center shall exchange transit incident information along with other service data with other transit agencies.
- The center shall monitor transit vehicle operational data to determine if the transit vehicle is off-route and assess whether a security incident is occurring.
- The center shall provide support to remotely disable (or reset the disabling of) a transit vehicle in service.
- The center shall receive information pertaining to a wide-area alert such as weather alerts, disaster situations, or child abductions. This information may come from Emergency Management or from other Alerting and Advisory Systems.
- The center shall receive reports of emergencies on-board transit vehicles entered directly be the transit vehicle operator or from a traveler through interfaces such as panic buttons or alarm switches.
- The center shall receive threat information and status on the integrity of the transit infrastructure.
- The center shall send wide-area alert information to travelers (on-board transit vehicles or at stations/stops) and transit vehicle operators.
- The center shall support the back-office portion of functionality to authenticate transit vehicle operators.
Transit Center Vehicle Tracking
- The center shall determine adherence of transit vehicles to their assigned schedule.
- The center shall monitor the locations of all transit vehicles within its network.
- The center shall provide collected transit probe data to traffic management centers and traveler information service providers for use in measuring current traffic conditions.
- The center shall provide transit operational data to traveler information service providers.
- 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 transit tracking and dispatch.
Transit Vehicle Operator Assignment
- The center shall assess the transit vehicle operator's availability based on previous work assignments, accumulated hours, plus health and vacation commitments.
- The center shall assign transit vehicle operators to transit schedules based on their eligibility, route preferences, seniority, and transit vehicle availability.
- The center shall generate supplemental vehicle operator assignments as required due to change events that occur during the operating day.
- The center shall maintain records of a transit vehicle operator's performance. This may be done utilizing standardized performance evaluation criteria set forth by governmental regulations and transit operating company policies, assessing the transit veh
- The center shall provide an interface through which the transit vehicle operator information can be maintained - either from the transit vehicle operator, center personnel, or other functions.
Transit Environmental Monitoring
- The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information to more effectively manage transit operations.
- The center shall collect current and forecast road and weather information from weather service providers and roadway maintenance centers.
Transit Evacuation Support
- The center shall adjust and update transit service and fare schedules and provide that information to other agencies as they coordinate evacuations.
- The center shall coordinate regional evacuation plans with Emergency Management - identifying the transit role in an evacuation and the transit resources that would be used.
- The center shall coordinate the use of transit and school bus fleets during an evacuation, supporting evacuation of those with special needs and the general population.
- The center shall manage the use of transit resources to support evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency.
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