ODOT District 12 Office - Maintenance and Construction Management Functionality
Subsystem Description
The Maintenance and Construction Management Subsystem monitors and manages roadway infrastructure construction and maintenance activities. Representing both public agencies and private contractors that provide these functions, this subsystem manages fleets of maintenance, construction, or special service vehicles (e.g., snow and ice control equipment). The subsystem receives a wide range of status information from these vehicles and performs vehicle dispatch, routing, and resource management for the vehicle fleets and associated equipment. The subsystem participates in incident response by deploying maintenance and construction resources to an incident scene, in coordination with other center subsystems. The subsystem manages equipment at the roadside, including environmental sensors and automated systems that monitor and mitigate adverse road and surface weather conditions. The subsystem manages the repair and maintenance of both non-ITS and ITS equipment including the traffic controllers, detectors, dynamic message signs, signals, and other equipment associated with the roadway infrastructure. Additional interfaces to weather information providers (the weather service and surface transportation weather service providers) provide current and forecast weather information that can be fused with other data sources and used to support advanced decision support systems that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of maintenance and construction operations.
The subsystem remotely monitors and manages ITS capabilities in work zones, gathering, storing, and disseminating work zone information to other systems. It manages traffic in the vicinity of the work zone and advises drivers of work zone status (either directly at the roadside or through an interface with the Information Service Provider or Traffic Management subsystems.) It schedules and manages the location and usage of maintenance assets (such as portable dynamic message signs).
Construction and maintenance activities are tracked and coordinated with other systems, improving the quality and accuracy of information available regarding closures and other roadway construction and maintenance activities.
Functional Area: MCM Environmental Information Collection
Remotely controls environmental sensors and assimilates collected data with environmental probe data and other current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information from weather service providers and transportation operations.
| ID | Requirement | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other measures. | Planned |
| 2 | The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility. | Planned |
| 3 | 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. | Planned |
| 4 | 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. | Planned |
| 5 | 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), data from traffic and traveler information providers, and environmental data collected from sensors deployed on and about the roadway as well as the fleet of maintenance and construction vehicles and the broader population of vehicle probes. | Planned |
| 6 | The center shall provide weather and road condition information to weather service providers and center personnel. | Planned |
| 7 | The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing. | Planned |
| 8 | The center shall collect operational status for the roadside and vehicle-based environmental sensor equipment. | Planned |
| 9 | The center shall collect fault data for the roadside and vehicle-based environmental sensor equipment for repair. | Planned |
Functional Area: MCM Environmental Information Processing
Processes current and forecast weather data, road condition information, local environmental data, and uses internal models to develop specialized detailed forecasts of local weather and surface conditions. Disseminates road weather information to other agencies and centers.
| ID | Requirement | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing. | Planned |
| 2 | 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 local environmental sensor data. | Planned |
| 3 | 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. | Planned |
| 4 | 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 traffic, emergency, and transit management, traveler information providers, rail operations centers, media, and other maintenance management centers. | Planned |
| 5 | 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. | Planned |
Functional Area: MCM Incident Management
Supports coordinated response to incidents - share incident notifications, manage incident response resources, and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
| ID | Requirement | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. | Planned |
| 2 | 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 alert originator, the nature of the emergency, the geographic area affected by the emergency, the effective time period, etc. | Planned |
| 3 | 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. | Planned |
| 4 | The center shall coordinate planning for incidents with emergency management centers - including pre-planning activities for disaster response, evacuation, and recovery operations. | Planned |
| 5 | 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 and other maintenance centers. | Planned |
| 6 | 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 remaining capacity, required closures, alternate routes, necessary restrictions, and time frame for repair and recovery. | Planned |
| 7 | 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 suggested speed limits. This information may be augmented with images that provide a visual indication of current work zone status and traffic impacts. | Planned |
| 8 | 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. | Planned |