NOACA Regional ITS Architecture

Interfaces:

TMC Incident Detection

• The center shall collect and store traffic flow and image data from the field equipment to detect and verify incidents.
• The center shall exchange incident and threat information with emergency management centers as well as maintenance and construction centers; including notification of existence of incident and expected severity, location, time and nature of incident.
• The center shall provide road network conditions and traffic images to emergency management centers to support the detection, verification, and classification of incidents.
• The center shall provide video and traffic sensor control commands to the field equipment to detect and verify incidents.
• The center shall receive inputs concerning upcoming events that would effect the traffic network from event promoters, traveler information service providers, border crossings, and intermodal freight depots.
• The center shall receive inputs from the Alerting and Advisory System concerning the possibility or occurrence of severe weather, terrorist activity, or other major emergency, including information provided by the Emergency Alert System.
• The center shall support requests from emergency management centers and border inspection systems to remotely control sensor and surveillance equipment located in the field.

TMC Incident Dispatch Coordination/Communication

• The center shall coordinate information and controls with other traffic management centers.
• The center shall coordinate planning for incidents with emergency management centers - including pre-planning activities for disaster response, evacuation, and recovery operations.
• The center shall exchange alert information and status with emergency management centers. The information includes notification of a major emergency such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, or child abduction for distribution to the publi
• The center shall exchange incident information with emergency management centers, maintenance and construction centers, transit centers, information service providers, and the media including description, location, traffic impact, status, expected duratio
• The center shall exchange road network status assessment information with emergency management and maintenance centers including an assessment of damage sustained by the road network including location and extent of the damage, estimate of remaining capac
• The center shall monitor incident response performance and calculate incident response and clearance times.
• The center shall provide road network conditions and traffic images to emergency management centers, maintenance and construction centers, and traveler information service providers.
• The center shall receive inputs concerning upcoming events that would effect the traffic network from event promoters, traveler information service providers, media, border crossings, and rail operations centers.
• The center shall receive inputs from emergency management and transit management centers to develop an overall status of the transportation system including emergency transit schedules in effect and current status and condition of the transportation infra
• The center shall respond to requests from border agencies to implement special traffic control measures (e.g. lane assignments by vehicle type) on the approaches to a border crossing.
• The center shall share resources with allied agency centers to implement special traffic control measures, assist in clean up, verify an incident, etc. This may also involve coordination with maintenance centers.
• 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 traffic incident management.
• The center shall support requests from emergency management centers to remotely control sensor and surveillance equipment located in the field, provide special routing for emergency vehicles, and to provide responding emergency vehicles with signal preemp

TMC Environmental Monitoring

• The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information using a combination of weather service provider information (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services), da
• The center shall provide weather and road condition information to weather service providers and center personnel.
• The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other measures.
• The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
• The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing.

TMC Traffic Information Dissemination

• The center shall distribute traffic data to the media; the capability to provide the information in both data stream and graphical display shall be supported.

MCM Environmental Information Processing

• The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information using a combination of weather service provider information (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services) and
• The center shall disseminate current and forecasted road weather and road condition information to weather service providers (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services) as well as other agencies including
• The center shall provide value-added sector specific meteorological services with information on basic road facility and treatment information that supports forecasts for road conditions.
• The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing.
• The center shall use the various data inputs of environmental sensors and road weather data to develop a view of current and predicted road weather and road conditions.

MCM Environmental Information Collection

• The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information using a combination of weather service provider information (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services), da
• The center shall collect environmental probe data (air temperature, exterior light status, wiper status, traction control status, etc.) from short range communications equipment that communicates with appropriately equipped probe vehicles.
• The center shall collect fault data for the roadside and vehicle-based environmental sensor equipment for repair.
• The center shall collect operational status for the roadside and vehicle-based environmental sensor equipment.
• The center shall provide weather and road condition information to weather service providers and center personnel.
• The center shall remotely control environmental sensors on-board maintenance and construction vehicles that measure road and weather conditions including air and surface temperatures, wind speed, humidity, precipitation, visibility and other measures.
• The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other measures.
• The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
• The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing.

MCM Incident Management

• The center shall coordinate planning for incidents with emergency management centers - including pre-planning activities for disaster response, evacuation, and recovery operations.
• The center shall exchange alert information and status with emergency management centers. The information includes notification of a major emergency such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, or child abduction. The information may include
• The center shall exchange incident and threat information with emergency management centers as well as traffic management centers; including notification of existence of incident and expected severity, location, time and nature of incident.
• The center shall exchange road network status assessment information with emergency management and traffic management centers including an assessment of damage sustained by the road network including location and extent of the damage, estimate of remainin
• The center shall provide work zone activities affecting the road network including the nature of the maintenance or construction activity, location, impact to the roadway, expected time(s) and duration of impact, anticipated delays, alternate routes, and
• The center shall receive information indicating the damage sustained by transportation assets, derived from aerial surveillance, field reports, inspections, tests, and analyses to support incident management.
• The center shall receive inputs from the Alerting and Advisory System concerning the possibility or occurrence of severe weather, terrorist activity, or other major emergency, including information provided by the Emergency Alert System.
• The center shall respond to requests from emergency management to provide maintenance and construction resources to implement response plans, assist in clean up, verify an incident, etc. This may also involve coordination with traffic management centers