ITS Element: Private Fleet and Freight Operators

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Description: Represents the private commercial fleet management operations and dispatch systems operating in the Region.
Status: Existing
Stakeholder: Private Commercial Carriers
Mapping: Fleet and Freight Management

Interfaces:

CECOMS - Emergency Communications
County Public Safety Dispatch
Municipal Public Safety Dispatch
Ohio State Highway Patrol Posts
OTC Toll Administration
OTC Website
Port of Cleveland Operations Center
Port of Cleveland Operations Center
Market Packages: ATMS10 - Electronic Toll Collection - Ohio Turnpike Commission
CVO02 - Freight Administration - Port of Cleveland
CVO03 - Electronic Clearance - Port of Cleveland
CVO04 - CV Administrative Processes - Port of Cleveland
CVO10 - HAZMAT Management - Greater Cleveland Region
CVO13 - Freight Assignment Tracking - CECOMS
Functional Requirements:

Fleet Administration

  • The center shall access driver records from the appropriate commercial vehicle administration center and use the records to support pre-hiring checks for potential drivers and monitor the performance of each driver who is hired.
  • The center shall coordinate the response to security incidents and the sharing of security threat information involving commercial vehicles with other agencies including emergency management centers and alerting/advisory systems.
  • The center shall monitor the locations and progress of commercial vehicles against their planned routes and raise appropriate warnings based on route monitoring parameters.
  • The center shall obtain and manage commercial vehicle routes for its fleet of vehicles, taking into account route restrictions, advance payment of tolls, HAZMAT restrictions, current traffic and road conditions, and incident information provided by travel
  • The center shall send data concerning enrollment of commercial vehicles for electronic clearance and tax filing to the appropriate commercial vehicle administration center. The data may include driver and vehicle identification, safety inspections/status
  • 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 the background for commercial vehicle fleet administration - includes commercial v

Fleet Credentials and Taxes Management and Reporting

  • The center shall provide audit data to the appropriate commercial vehicle administration center to support tax audits.
  • The center shall receive compliance review reports from the appropriate commercial vehicle administration centers concerning the operations of the commercial vehicle fleet, including concomitant out-of-service notifications, and carrier warnings/notificat
  • The center shall send data concerning enrollment and purchase of commercial vehicles credentials and tax filing to the appropriate commercial vehicle administration center.
  • The center shall support an interface with a commercial vehicle driver that is acting in the role of a commercial vehicle fleet manager for the purposes of obtaining credentials, filing taxes and audit data, and receiving compliance reports and status inf

Fleet HAZMAT Management

  • The center shall provide information concerning commercial vehicles carrying hazardous materials (HAZMAT) upon request from an emergency management center. The information includes the nature of the cargo being carried, identity of the vehicle and unload
  • The center shall track the routing and cargo information, including the manifest data plus the chemical characteristics of a hazardous materials (HAZMAT) load being carried by its fleet of commercial vehicles.

Freight Administration and Management

  • The center shall collect data from the commercial vehicles carrying freight or from the freight equipment itself. Includes container, trailer, or chassis information regarding identity, type, location, brake wear data, mileage, seal number/type, door op
  • The center shall collect diagnostic information fro freight equipment to schedule preventative and corrective maintenance.
  • The center shall coordinate the response to security incidents and the sharing of security threat information involving freight equipment with other agencies including emergency management centers, intermodal freight shippers, and alerting/advisory system
  • The center shall coordinate the shipment of cargo using freight equipment with intermodal freight depots. Information to be coordinated includes information regarding a freight transportation booking and the assigned driver and vehicle scheduled to trans
  • The center shall notify other security functions within the center of deviations in the movement of freight equipment from its planned route.
  • The center shall provide the interface with intermodal freight shippers to setup transportation for freight equipment. Inputs to this include information about the shipper, consignee, commodities, pick-up and drop-off locations for freight equipment. Ou
  • The center shall support the registration of its vehicles, drivers, and cargo for expedited border crossings with the appropriate government border inspection administration system.
  • The center shall support the submission of cargo manifest data to the appropriate government border inspection administration system.
  • The center shall track the progress of freight equipment as it moves from source to destination based on inputs from the commercial vehicles, the freight equipment, intermodal freight depots, shippers, and commercial vehicle administration centers that pr

Commercial Vehicle and Freight Security

  • The center shall coordinate the response to security incidents and the sharing of security threat information involving commercial vehicles and freight equipment with other agencies including emergency management centers, intermodal freight shippers, and
  • The center shall monitor the freight equipment identity with the planned vehicle assignment, generating a warning if the tracked identities do not match the planned assignments.
  • The center shall monitor the identity of a commercial vehicle driver and compare it with the planned driver, generating warnings if the tracked identities do not match the planned assignments.
  • The center shall receive data from commercial vehicles and freight equipment concerning potential critical security problem(s), including a breach or tamper event with information such as time, date, location, identities, and nature of the problem.

Last updated: 03-17-10