Regional ODOT Freeway Management System
Description
To include TMC, DMS, CCTV, Flow detection, freeway service patrols, hybrid communications system, HAR, ramp metering, web-based services and inter-agency communications network. Many agencies (GCRTA, CECOMS, Cuyahoga County Emergency Management, etc) exp
Status
Existing
Timeframe
Short Term Priority
Geographic Scope
Service Scope
To include TMC, DMS, CCTV, Flow detection, freeway service patrols, hybrid communications system, HAR, ramp metering, web-based services and inter-agency communications network. Cost: $18,000,000
Stakeholders
Inventory
ARTIMIS Operations Control Center
ODOT District 12 Freeway Management Center
ODOT District 12 Maintenance Garages
ODOT District 12 Public Information Office
Ohio State Highway Patrol Posts
Services
ATMS01-2 - Network Surveillance - ODOT District 12
ATMS04-1 - Freeway Control - ODOT District 12
ATMS06-2 - Traffic Information Dissemination - ODOT District 12 (1 of 2)
ATMS07-2 - Regional Traffic Management - ODOT District 12
ATMS08-02 - Traffic Incident Management System - ODOT District 12 (EM to TM)
ATMS08-13 - Traffic Incident Management System - ODOT Districts 3 and 12 (TM to MCM)
ATMS08-24 - Traffic Incident Management System - Event Promoter Interfaces – City of Cleveland
EM04-1 - Roadway Service Patrols - ODOT Road Crewzers
MC03-1 - Road Weather Data Collection - ODOT District 12
MC04-1 - Weather Information Processing and Distribution - ODOT District 12 (1 of 2)
MC06-06 - Winter Maintenance - ODOT District 12 Maintenance Garages (2 of 2)
MC07-3 - Roadway Maintenance and Construction - ODOT District 12 Maintenance Garages
Functional Areas
- The center shall distribute road network conditions data (raw or processed) based on collected and analyzed traffic sensor and surveillance data to other centers.
- The center shall maintain a database of surveillance and sensors and the freeways, surface street and rural roadways, e.g. where they are located, to which part(s) of the network their data applies, the type of data, and the ownership of each link (that i
- The center shall monitor, analyze, and distribute traffic images from CCTV systems under remote control of the center.
- The center shall monitor, analyze, and store multimodal crossing and high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane sensor data under remote control of the center.
- The center shall monitor, analyze, and store traffic sensor data (speed, volume, occupancy) collected from field elements under remote control of the center.
- The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding sensor and surveillance data collection, analysis, storage, and distribution.
- 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 a background for traffic data.
- The center shall assess the status of responding emergency vehicles as part of an incident command.
- The center shall provide incident command communications with public safety, emergency management, transportation, and other allied response agency centers.
- The center shall provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
- The center shall share incident command information with other public safety agencies including resource deployment status, hazardous material information, rail incident information, evacuation advice as well as traffic, road, and weather conditions.
- The center shall track and maintain resource information and action plans pertaining to the incident command.
- The center shall collect, process, and store current and forecast road conditions and surface weather conditions.
- The center shall collect, process, and store event information.
- The center shall collect, process, and store maintenance and construction information, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities.
- The center shall collect, process, and store toll fee information.
- The center shall collect, process, and store traffic and highway condition information, including incident information, detours and road closures, event information, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes.
MCM Roadway Maintenance and Construction
- The center shall collect current and forecast traffic and weather information from traffic management centers and weather service providers (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services).
- The center shall collect the status and fault data from roadside equipment, such as traffic, infrastructure, and environmental sensors, highway advisory radio and dynamic message signs, automated roadway treatment systems, barrier and safeguard systems, c
- The center shall collect the status and fault data from the centers that operate the equipment, including data for traffic, infrastructure, and environmental sensors, highway advisory radio and dynamic message signs, automated roadway treatment systems, b
- The center shall provide emergency management and traffic management centers with information about scheduled maintenance and construction work activities including anticipated closures and impact to the roadway, alternate routes, anticipated delays, clos
- The center shall respond to requests from emergency management and traffic management centers for hazard removal, field equipment repair, and other roadway maintenance.
MCM Winter Maintenance Management
- The center shall collect real-time information on the state of the regional transportation system from other centers including current traffic and road conditions, weather conditions, special event and incident information and use the collected informatio
- The center shall respond to requests from emergency management and traffic management centers for hazard removal, field equipment repair, and other winter roadway maintenance.
- The emergency vehicle shall forward care facility status information to emergency vehicle personnel, including the location, specialized services, quality of care, waiting time, number of rooms available, and emergency room status of hospitals or emergenc
- The emergency vehicle shall provide the personnel on-board with dispatch information, including incident type and location, and forward an acknowledgment from personnel to the center that the vehicle is on its way to the incident scene.
- The emergency vehicle shall send patient status information to the care facility along with a request for further information.
- The emergency vehicle shall send the current en route status (including estimated time of arrival) and requests for emergency dispatch updates.
- The emergency vehicle shall send the vehicle’s location, speed and direction to other vehicles in the area.
- The emergency vehicle, including roadway service patrols, shall receive incident details and a suggested route when dispatched to a scene.
- The emergency vehicle, including roadway service patrols, shall send the vehicle's location and operational data to the center for emergency management and dispatch.
- The emergency vehicle, including roadway service patrols, shall track its current location.
On-board EV Incident Management Communication
- The emergency vehicle shall provide an interface to the center for emergency personnel to transmit information about the current incident response status such as the identification of the resources on site, site management strategies in effect, and curren
- The emergency vehicle shall provide an interface to the center for emergency personnel to transmit information about the incident site such as the extent of injuries, identification of vehicles and people involved, hazardous material, etc.
- The emergency vehicle shall provide traffic incident information to approaching vehicles using short range communications..
- The emergency vehicle shall receive dispatch instructions sufficient to enable emergency personnel in the field to implement an effective incident response. It includes local traffic, road, and weather conditions, hazardous material information, and the c
- The field element shall collect, digitize, and send multimodal crossing and high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane sensor data to the center for further analysis and storage.
- The field element shall collect, process, and send traffic images to the center for further analysis and distribution.
- The field element shall collect, process, digitize, and send traffic sensor data (speed, volume, and occupancy) to the center for further analysis and storage, under center control.
- The field element shall return sensor and CCTV system fault data to the controlling center for repair.
- The field element shall return sensor and CCTV system operational status to the controlling center.
Roadway Equipment Coordination
- The field element shall include devices (such as arterial or freeway controllers, roadway automated treatment systems, barrier and safeguard systems, emissions or pollution systems, and work zone intrusion alert systems) that provide data and status infor
- The field element shall include devices (such as arterial or freeway controllers, roadway automated treatment systems, barrier and safeguard systems, emissions or pollution systems, and work zone intrusion alert systems) that receive control information f
- The field element shall include sensors (such as traffic, environmental, and work zone intrusion detection sensors) that provide data and status information to other field element devices (such as dynamic message signs, ramp meters, traffic signals, work
- The field element shall include sensors (such as traffic, environmental, and work zone intrusion detection sensors) that receive control information from other field element devices, without center control.
- The field element shall include ramp metering controllers, mainline meters, and lane controls for use on freeways, under center control.
- The field element shall monitor operation of ramp meter, mainline meters, and lane control indicators and report to the center any instances in which the indicator response does not match that expected from known indicator preemptions.
- The field element shall monitor operation of ramp meter, mainline meters, and lane control indicators and report to the center any instances in which the indicator response does not match that expected from the indicator control information.
- The field element shall provide indications to the driver that a freeway ramp or a lane is available for use, with possible usage data for the freeway lanes they are entering.
- The field element shall return ramp metering controller, mainline meters, and lane control fault data to the maintenance center for repair.
- The field element shall return ramp metering controller, mainline meters, and lane control operational status to the controlling center.
Roadway Traffic Information Dissemination
- The field element shall include driver information systems that communicate directly from a center to the vehicle radio (such as Highway Advisory Radios) for dissemination of traffic and other information to drivers, under center control.
- The field element shall include dynamic messages signs for dissemination of traffic and other information to drivers, under center control; the DMS may be either those that display variable text messages, or those that have fixed format display(s) (e.g. v
- The field element shall provide fault data for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.) to the center for repair.
- The field element shall provide operational status for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.) to the center.
- The center shall dispatch roadway service patrol vehicles to identified incident locations.
- The center shall share incident information collected by the service patrol with traffic, maintenance and construction, and traveler information centers for incident management, incident notification to travelers, and incident cleanup.
- The center shall store the current status of all service patrol vehicles available for dispatch and those that have been dispatched.
- The center shall track the location and status of service patrol vehicles.
- 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), da
- The center shall provide weather and road condition information to weather service providers and center personnel.
- The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other measures.
- The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
- The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing.
- The center shall collect fault data from ramp meters, mainline metering, and lane controls.
- The center shall collect operational status from ramp meters, mainline metering, and lane controls and compare against the control information sent by the center.
- The center shall implement control strategies, under control of center personnel, on some or all of the freeway network devices (e.g. ramp meters, mainline metering, and lane controls), based on data from sensors monitoring traffic conditions upstream, do
- The center shall remotely control systems to manage use of the freeways, including ramp meters, mainline metering, and lane controls.
- The center shall collect and store traffic flow and image data from the field equipment to detect and verify incidents.
- The center shall exchange incident and threat information with emergency management centers as well as maintenance and construction centers; including notification of existence of incident and expected severity, location, time and nature of incident.
- The center shall provide road network conditions and traffic images to emergency management centers to support the detection, verification, and classification of incidents.
- The center shall provide video and traffic sensor control commands to the field equipment to detect and verify incidents.
- The center shall receive inputs concerning upcoming events that would effect the traffic network from event promoters, traveler information service providers, border crossings, and intermodal freight depots.
- 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.
- The center shall support requests from emergency management centers and border inspection systems to remotely control sensor and surveillance equipment located in the field.
TMC Incident Dispatch Coordination/Communication
- The center shall coordinate information and controls with other traffic management centers.
- The center shall coordinate planning for incidents with emergency management centers - including pre-planning activities for disaster response, evacuation, and recovery operations.
- 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 for distribution to the publi
- The center shall exchange incident information with emergency management centers, maintenance and construction centers, transit centers, information service providers, and the media including description, location, traffic impact, status, expected duratio
- The center shall exchange road network status assessment information with emergency management and maintenance centers including an assessment of damage sustained by the road network including location and extent of the damage, estimate of remaining capac
- The center shall monitor incident response performance and calculate incident response and clearance times.
- The center shall provide road network conditions and traffic images to emergency management centers, maintenance and construction centers, and traveler information service providers.
- The center shall receive inputs concerning upcoming events that would effect the traffic network from event promoters, traveler information service providers, media, border crossings, and rail operations centers.
- The center shall receive inputs from emergency management and transit management centers to develop an overall status of the transportation system including emergency transit schedules in effect and current status and condition of the transportation infra
- The center shall respond to requests from border agencies to implement special traffic control measures (e.g. lane assignments by vehicle type) on the approaches to a border crossing.
- The center shall share resources with allied agency centers to implement special traffic control measures, assist in clean up, verify an incident, etc. This may also involve coordination with maintenance centers.
- 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 a background for traffic incident management.
- The center shall support requests from emergency management centers to remotely control sensor and surveillance equipment located in the field, provide special routing for emergency vehicles, and to provide responding emergency vehicles with signal preemp
TMC Regional Traffic Management
- The center shall exchange traffic control information with other traffic management centers to support remote monitoring and control of traffic management devices (e.g. signs, sensors, signals, cameras, etc.).
- The center shall exchange traffic information with other traffic management centers including incident information, congestion data, traffic data, signal timing plans, and real-time signal control information.
TMC Traffic Information Dissemination
- The center shall collect fault data for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.) for repair.
- The center shall collect operational status for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.).
- The center shall distribute traffic data to maintenance and construction centers, transit centers, emergency management centers, and traveler information providers.
- The center shall distribute traffic data to the media; the capability to provide the information in both data stream and graphical display shall be supported.
- The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to control the nature of the data that is available to non-traffic operations centers and the media.
- The center shall remotely control driver information systems that communicate directly from a center to the vehicle radio (such as Highway Advisory Radios) for dissemination of traffic and other information to drivers.
- The center shall remotely control dynamic messages signs for dissemination of traffic and other information to drivers.
- The center shall retrieve locally stored traffic information, including current and forecasted traffic information, road and weather conditions, traffic incident information, information on diversions and alternate routes, closures, and special traffic re
- The center shall collect and store CCTV surveillance system (traffic, pedestrian) fault data send to the maintenance center for repair.
- The center shall collect and store CCTV surveillance system (traffic, pedestrian) operational status.
- The center shall collect and store sensor (traffic, pedestrian, multimodal crossing) fault data and send to the maintenance center for repair.
- The center shall collect and store sensor (traffic, pedestrian, multimodal crossing) operational status.
- The center shall collect environmental sensor equipment fault data and send to the maintenance center for repair.
- The center shall collect environmental sensor operational status.
- The center shall exchange data with maintenance centers concerning the reporting of faulty equipment and the schedule/status of their repair. Information exchanged includes details of new equipment faults, and clearances when the faults are cleared.
- 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 a background for traffic maintenance data.
Interfaces
Standards
| SDO | Document ID | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | View List | NTCIP Center-to-Center Standards Group | Group |
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | View List | NTCIP Center-to-Field Standards Group | Group |
| IEEE | View List | Incident Management Standards Group | Group |
| SAE | View List | Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) General Use Standards Group | Group |
| AASHTO/ITE | ITE TMDD | Traffic Management Data Dictionary (TMDD) and Message Sets for External Traffic Management Center Communications (MS/ETMCC) | Message/Data |
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | NTCIP 1201 | Global Object Definitions | Message/Data |
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | NTCIP 1202 | Object Definitions for Actuated Traffic Signal Controller (ASC) Units | Message/Data |
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | NTCIP 1203 | Object Definitions for Dynamic Message Signs (DMS) | Message/Data |
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | NTCIP 1205 | Object Definitions for Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Camera Control | Message/Data |
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | NTCIP 1207 | Object Definitions for Ramp Meter Control (RMC) Units | Message/Data |
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | NTCIP 1208 | Object Definitions for Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Switching | Message/Data |
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | NTCIP 1209 | Data Element Definitions for Transportation Sensor Systems (TSS) | Message/Data |
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | NTCIP 1210 | Field Management Stations (FMS) - Part 1: Object Definitions for Signal System Masters | Message/Data |
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | NTCIP 1211 | Object Definitions for Signal Control and Prioritization (SCP) | Message/Data |
| IEEE | IEEE 1570-2002 | Standard for the Interface Between the Rail Subsystem and the Highway Subsystem at a Highway Rail Intersection | Message/Data |
Operational Concepts
| Stakeholder | Roles and Responsibilities |
|---|---|
| Ohio Turnpike Commission | |
| Provide traffic information reports to other traffic management agencies. | |
| ODOT | |
| Collect environmental information from ODOT field equipment, and from public and private weather service providers. | |
| Collect road weather information from field sensors. | |
| Collect traffic and incident information and weather information and provide it to the media and private travelers. | |
| Collect traffic condition information from traffic operations centers. | |
| Collect traffic data from highway system sensors. | |
| Dispatch roadway service patrol vehicles that monitor roads that aid motorists, offering rapid response to minor incidents (flat tire, accidents, out of gas) to minimize disruption to the traffic stream. | |
| Monitor and control highway traffic with traffic sensors, ramp meters and lane control signals. | |
| Monitor and control traffic information devices of other traffic management agencies, such as dynamic message signs, during certain agreed upon conditions, such as specific hours or during specific emergencies. | |
| Monitor highway surveillance cameras. | |
| Monitor the speeds of vehicles traveling on the highway or state-owned arterials. | |
| Operate traffic information devices, such as dynamic message signs and highway advisory radios. | |
| Perform maintenance for ITS field equipment owned by the ODOT. | |
| Perform network surveillance for incident detection and verification, and send traffic/incident information and traffic images to local and county public safety agencies and EOCs. | |
| Provide maintenance resources in response to incidents on highways. | |
| Provide traffic information in a coordinated effort to the state traveler information system, Buckeye Traffic website and other traffic management agencies. | |
| Provide traffic information reports to other traffic management agencies. | |
| Provide traffic information to travelers via the Buckeye Traffic website, 511 system, information service providers, and the media. | |
| Provide traffic information to travelers via traffic information devices on state-owned roadways (e.g., DMS and HAR equipment), and through local ISPs and web sites. | |
| Provide traffic information, such as road network conditions, information to transit agencies. | |
| Provide traffic information, such as road network conditions, to information service providers. | |
| Provide traffic information, such as road network conditions, to maintenance and construction agencies. | |
| Provide traffic information, such as road network conditions, to public safety agencies. | |
| Suggest a safe driving speed for vehicles traveling on the highway or state-owned arterials. |