ITS Element: Traveler Vehicles

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Description: Represents the ITS equipment inside private vehicles.
Status: Existing
Stakeholder: General Public
Mapping: Vehicle
Other Vehicle

Interfaces:

City of Cleveland Parking Management
E-ZPass Tag
Hopkins International Airport Parking Management System
Mayday/Concierge Services
ODOT IntelliDrive Roadside Equipment
ODOT Traffic Detectors
OTC Toll Collection Equipment
Regional Traveler Smart Card
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
ATMS16 - Parking Facility Management - Hopkins International Airport
ATMS16 - Parking Facility Management - City of Cleveland
EM03 - Mayday and Alarms Support - Mayday Concierge Services
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.

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.

Last updated: 03-17-10