ITS Element: Commercial Vehicles

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Description: Commercial Vehicles with electronic tags.
Status: Planned
Stakeholder: Private Commercial Carriers
Mapping: Commercial Vehicle Subsystem
Vehicle
Other Vehicle

Interfaces:

CECOMS - Emergency Communications
City of Cleveland Roadside Inspection Station
County Public Safety Dispatch
E-ZPass Tag
Municipal Public Safety Dispatch
ODOT IntelliDrive Roadside Equipment
ODOT Traffic Detectors
Ohio State Highway Patrol Posts
OTC Toll Collection Equipment
Port of Cleveland Station
Market Packages: ATIS09 - In Vehicle Signing - ODOT
ATIS10 - VII Traveler Information - ODOT
ATMS02 - Traffic Probe Surveillance - ODOT Probe System
ATMS10 - Electronic Toll Collection - Ohio Turnpike Commission
CVO03 - Electronic Clearance - Port of Cleveland
CVO06 - Weigh-In-Motion - City of Cleveland
CVO10 - HAZMAT Management - Greater Cleveland Region
CVO13 - Freight Assignment Tracking - CECOMS
Functional Requirements:

Vehicle Short Range Traveler Information Reception

  • The vehicle shall present the received information to the driver in audible or visual forms without impairing the driver's ability to control the vehicle in a safe manner.
  • The vehicle shall receive advisory information, such as evacuation information, proximity to a maintenance and construction vehicle, wide-area alerts, work zone intrusion information, and other special information.
  • The vehicle shall receive indicator and fixed sign information including static sign information (e.g., stop, curve warning, guide signs, service signs, and directional signs) and dynamic information (e.g., current signal states and local conditions warni
  • The vehicle shall receive traveler information including traffic and road conditions, incident information, maintenance and construction information, event information, transit information, parking information, and weather information.
  • The vehicle shall store a translation table for road sign and message templates used for in-vehicle display.

On-board Cargo Monitoring

  • The commercial vehicle shall compute the location of the commercial vehicle and its freight equipment.
  • 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 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 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 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
  • 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 elect

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 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 vehi
  • 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.
  • The commercial vehicle shall provide details of the route input from the commercial vehicle fleet management center.
  • 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
  • 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.

Vehicle Mayday I/F

  • The vehicle shall acknowledge the driver's request for emergency assistance.
  • The vehicle shall forward a request for assistance to a center containing the driver's current location, its identity and basic vehicle data relevant to its current condition, as well as any other data, such as personal medical history, vehicle orientatio
  • The vehicle shall provide further details about the emergency to the center upon request from that function.
  • The vehicle shall provide the capability for a driver to report an emergency and summon assistance.
  • The vehicle shall provide the capability to accept input from a driver via a panic button or some other functionally similar form of input device provided as part of the in-vehicle equipment.
  • The vehicle shall provide the capability to automatically identify that a collision has occurred using equipment such as collision detection sensors with an interface to mayday type equipment that would automatically detect vehicle problems and send appro

Vehicle Traffic Probe Support

  • The vehicle shall record vehicle trip information (e.g., travel times, origin and destination information for vehicles that opt in) that can be used to support transportation planning.
  • The vehicle shall report the number of vehicle occupants to field equipment located along the roadway.
  • The vehicle shall respond to requests from short range communications equipment for identification information that can be used to collect basic probe information; the field equipment will remove identification information to ensure anonymity.
  • The vehicle shall track its current vehicle position, speed, and heading and record snapshots of events (e.g., starts and stops, link travel times) that can be used to determine current traffic conditions.
  • The vehicle shall transmit collected probe data to field equipment located along the roadway.
  • The vehicle shall transmit collected probe data to the center.

Vehicle Toll/Parking Interface

  • The vehicle shall present information to the driver in audible or visual forms without impairing the driver's ability to control the vehicle in a safe manner.
  • The vehicle shall provide an interface to the driver to make requests for advance payments of tolls, parking, and transit fares and present the status of electronic payment transactions.
  • The vehicle shall provide an interface with the traveler card / payment instrument carried on-board the vehicle - to exchange identity information and payment transactions.
  • The vehicle shall respond to request from parking field equipment for credit identity, stored value card cash, etc.
  • The vehicle shall respond to requests from toll collection equipment for credit identity, stored value card cash, etc.

Vehicle Location Determination

  • The vehicle shall calculate the location from one or more data sources including positioning systems such as GPS, sensors that track vehicle movement, and maps used to determine the likely vehicle route.
  • The vehicle shall provide the vehicle's current location to other in-vehicle functions.

On-board Driver Authentication

  • The commercial vehicle shall activate commands to safely disable the commercial vehicle when an unauthorized driver is detected; either in a stand-alone fashion or in response to inputs from the commercial vehicle fleet management center.
  • The commercial vehicle shall detect when an unauthorized commercial vehicle driver attempts to drive their vehicle based on stored driver identity information; passing the information on to the commercial vehicle fleet management center.
  • The commercial vehicle shall receive and store driver assignments and associated driver identity characteristic keys from the commercial vehicle fleet management center.

Last updated: 03-17-10