ITS Element: Port of Cleveland Operations Center

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Description: Represents the Port of Cleveland's management operations and dispatch systems.
Status: Existing
Stakeholder: Cleveland Cuyahoga County Port Authority
Mapping: Commercial Vehicle Administration
Emergency Management
Intermodal Freight Depot

Interfaces:

CECOMS - Emergency Communications
City of Cleveland Police, Fire, and EMS Dispatch
City of Cleveland Signal Control System
Port of Cleveland Infrastructure Monitoring Sensors
Port of Cleveland Station
Private Fleet and Freight Operators
Private Fleet and Freight Operators
US DHS TWIC
Market Packages: CVO02 - Freight Administration - Port of Cleveland
CVO03 - Electronic Clearance - Port of Cleveland
CVO04 - CV Administrative Processes - Port of Cleveland
EM05 - Transportation Infrastructure Protection - Port of Cleveland
Functional Requirements:

Credentials and Taxes Administration

  • The center shall exchange credentials and tax information with other commercial vehicle administration centers - either in other states or the federal government.
  • The center shall manage driver licensing for commercial vehicle drivers.
  • The center shall manage electronic credentials filing and processing for commercial vehicles.
  • The center shall manage the filing of appropriate taxes for the operation of commercial vehicles.
  • The center shall process requests for payments of electronic credentials and tax filing and maintain an interface to a Financial Institution.
  • The center shall provide an interface with commercial vehicle fleet and freight management centers to exchange audit and compliance review reports.
  • The center shall provide credentials information about commercial vehicle operators and carriers to authorized requestors such as insurance agencies.
  • The center shall provide route restrictions information, including hazmat restrictions, to other centers and agencies for distribution to commercial vehicle operators. These centers and agencies may include commercial fleet and freight management operat
  • The center shall receive and store information on commercial vehicle violations from enforcement agencies as part of the processing of credentials applications.
  • The center shall use information on asset restrictions received from maintenance centers to develop the commercial vehicle route restrictions and process credentials applications.

CV Information Exchange

  • The center shall exchange information with roadside check facilities, including credentials and credentials status information, safety status information, daily site activity data, driver records, and citations.
  • The center shall exchange safety and credentials data among other commercial vehicle administration centers; includes border clearance status, credentials information, credentials status information, driver records, accident reports, and safety status inf
  • The center shall package data concerning commercial vehicle safety and credentials into profiles (detailed and historical data).
  • The center shall package data concerning commercial vehicle safety and credentials into snapshots (top-level summary and critical status information).
  • The center shall provide commercial vehicle credentials and safety status information to authorized requestors such as insurance agencies.
  • The center shall provide individual drivers access to their own driver records on request.
  • The center shall provide reports to the commercial vehicle fleet manager regarding fleet activity through roadside facilities including accident reports, citations, credentials status information, driver records, and safety status information.

CV Safety and Security Administration

  • The center shall collect and review safety inspection reports and violations from the roadside check facilities and pass on appropriate portions to other commercial vehicle administrative centers and commercial vehicle fleet operators.
  • The center shall manage the citation records and provide the citations to enforcement agencies and the commercial fleet management center.
  • The center shall monitor alerting and advisory systems for security alerts and advisories.
  • The center shall notify enforcement agencies of commercial vehicle safety violations by individual commercial vehicles, drivers, or carriers.
  • The center shall provide commercial vehicle accident reports to enforcement agencies.
  • The center shall provide commercial vehicle safety and security data to roadside check facilities.
  • The center shall provide the capability for the commercial fleet management center to report required commercial vehicle repairs and other corrections of identified deficiencies.
  • The center shall receive citation records from roadside check facilities.

Center Secure Area Surveillance

  • The center shall exchange surveillance data with other emergency centers.
  • The center shall exchange traveler images with other emergency management centers to support traveler image matching.
  • The center shall identify potential security threats based on collected security surveillance data.
  • The center shall match traveler video images against a database from the Alerting and Advisory Systems of known images that may represent criminals and terrorists.
  • The center shall monitor maintenance status of the security sensor field equipment.
  • The center shall remotely control security surveillance devices in secure areas including facilities (e.g. transit yards) and transportation infrastructure (e.g. bridges, tunnels, interchanges, roadway infrastructure, and transit railways or guideways).
  • The center shall remotely control security surveillance devices in traveler secure areas, which include transit stations, transit stops, rest areas, park and ride lots, and other fixed sites along travel routes (e.g., emergency pull-off areas and travel i
  • The center shall remotely control security surveillance devices on-board transit vehicles.
  • The center shall remotely monitor video images and audio surveillance data collected in secure areas including facilities (e.g. transit yards) and transportation infrastructure (e.g. bridges, tunnels, interchanges, roadway infrastructure, and transit rail
  • The center shall remotely monitor video images and audio surveillance data collected in traveler secure areas, which include transit stations, transit stops, rest areas, park and ride lots, and other fixed sites along travel routes (e.g., emergency pull-o
  • The center shall remotely monitor video images and audio surveillance data collected on-board transit vehicles. The data may be raw or pre-processed in the field.
  • The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding security surveillance data collection, processing, threat detection, and image matching.
  • The center shall verify potential security threats by correlating security surveillance data from multiple sources.

Center Secure Area Sensor Management

  • The center shall disseminate threat information to other agencies, including traffic, transit, maintenance, rail operations, and other emergency management centers.
  • The center shall exchange security sensor data with other emergency centers.
  • The center shall exchange threat analysis data with Alerting and Advisory Systems and use that data in local threat analysis processing.
  • The center shall identify potential security threats based on collected security sensor data.
  • The center shall monitor maintenance status of the security sensor field equipment.
  • The center shall perform threat analysis based on correlations of security sensor and surveillance data.
  • The center shall remotely monitor and control security sensor data collected in secure areas including facilities (e.g. transit yards) and transportation infrastructure (e.g. bridges, tunnels, interchanges, roadway infrastructure, and transit railways or
  • The center shall remotely monitor and control security sensor data collected in traveler secure areas, which include transit stations, transit stops, rest areas, park and ride lots, and other fixed sites along travel routes (e.g., emergency pull-off areas
  • The center shall remotely monitor and control security sensor data collected on-board transit vehicles. The types of security sensor data include environmental threat (e.g. chemical agent, toxic industrial chemical, biological, explosives, and radiologic
  • The center shall request activation of barriers and safeguards on request from center personnel.
  • The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding security sensor data collection, processing, threat detection, and threat analysis.
  • The center shall verify potential security threats by correlating security sensor data from multiple sources.

Last updated: 03-17-10