ODOT Expand Traveler Information Delivery Methods
Description
Implement additional traveler information dissemination methods which may include cable TV station; personalized traveler information on a subscription basis delivered to cell phones, pagers, personal computing devices, etc.; connections to private sector
Status
Planned
Timeframe
Short-Term Priority
Geographic Scope
Service Scope
Costs - $1,500,000; Operations & Maintenance Costs (per year) - $250,000.
Stakeholders
Private Traveler Information Providers
Inventory
ODOT District 12 Freeway Management Center
ODOT District 12 Maintenance Garages
ODOT District 12 Public Information Office
ODOT District 3 Maintenance Garages
ODOT District 3 Public Information Office
Private Traveler Information Systems
Services
ATIS01-1 - Broadcast Traveler Information - Buckeye Traffic (1 of 2)
ATIS02-1 - Interactive Traveler Information - Private Traveler Information Systems
ATMS06-2 - Traffic Information Dissemination - ODOT District 12 (1 of 2)
ATMS06-3 - Traffic Information Dissemination - ODOT District 12 (2 of 2)
ATMS06-4 - Traffic Information Dissemination - ODOT District 3 (1 of 2)
ATMS06-5 - Traffic Information Dissemination - ODOT District 3 (2 of 2)
Functional Areas
- The center shall disseminate air quality information to travelers.
- The center shall disseminate event information to travelers.
- The center shall disseminate maintenance and construction information to travelers, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities.
- The center shall disseminate parking information to travelers, including location, availability, and fees.
- The center shall disseminate toll fee information to travelers.
- The center shall disseminate traffic and highway condition information to travelers, including incident information, detours and road closures, event information, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes.
- The center shall disseminate weather information to travelers.
- The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to control the type and update frequency of broadcast traveler information.
- The center shall provide the capability to support requests from the media for traffic and incident data.
Interactive Infrastructure Information
- The center shall accept traveler profiles for determining the type of personalized data to send to the traveler.
- The center shall disseminate customized air quality information to travelers upon request.
- The center shall disseminate customized event information to travelers upon request.
- The center shall disseminate customized maintenance and construction information to travelers, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities upon request.
- The center shall disseminate customized multimodal transportation service information (for example, from ferry and airline operators), including transfer points and other information, to travelers upon request.
- The center shall disseminate customized parking information to travelers, including location, availability, and fees upon request.
- The center shall disseminate customized toll fee information to travelers upon request.
- The center shall disseminate customized traffic and highway condition information to travelers, including incident information, detours and road closures, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes upon request.
- The center shall disseminate customized transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information to travelers upon request.
- The center shall disseminate customized weather information to travelers upon request.
- The center shall manage payment for services, such as tolls, transit fares, parking lot charges, map updates, and advanced payment for tolls, and provide transaction success or failure details.
- The center shall manage updates of digitized map data and provide updates to traveler interface systems upon request.
- The center shall provide all traveler information based on the traveler's current location or a specific location identified by the traveler, and filter or customize the provided information accordingly.
- The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to control the type and update frequency of traveler information.
- The center shall provide the capability to exchange information with another traveler information service provider current or predicted data for road links that are outside the area served by the local supplier.
- The center shall provide the capability to support requests from the media for traffic and incident data.
- The center shall support requests for traveler information and advanced payment for traveler services from commercial fleet operators.
- The center shall collect, process, and store air quality information.
- 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 parking information, including location, availability, and fees.
- 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.
- The center shall collect, process, and store transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information.
ISP Traveler Information Alerts
- The center shall accept traveler profiles that define alert thresholds that establish the severity and types of alerts that are provided to each traveler.
- The center shall accept traveler profiles that establish recurring trip characteristics including route, mode, and timeframe information.
- The center shall disseminate personalized event alerts reporting special event impacts on the transportation system.
- The center shall disseminate personalized multimodal transportation service alerts including ferry and air travel delays, port closures, and service interruptions.
- The center shall disseminate personalized parking alerts reporting parking availability and closures.
- The center shall disseminate personalized road weather alerts reporting adverse road and weather conditions.
- The center shall disseminate personalized traffic alerts reporting congestion, incidents, delays, detours and road closures that may impact a current or planned trip.
- The center shall disseminate personalized transit alerts reporting transit delays and service interruptions.
- The center shall provide an operator interface that supports monitoring and management of subscribers and the content and format of alert messages.
TMC Traffic Information Dissemination
- 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 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
Traveler Telephone Information
- The center shall provide current ferry and rail schedule and airport status information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
- The center shall provide information on traffic conditions in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
- The center shall provide roadway environment conditions information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
- The center shall provide the capability to process dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF)-based requests (touch-tone) for traveler information from a traveler telephone information system.
- The center shall provide the capability to process traveler information requests from a traveler telephone information system.
- The center shall provide the capability to process voice-formatted requests for traveler information from a traveler telephone information system, and return the information in the requested format.
- The center shall provide the capability to support both specific caller requests as well as bulk upload of regional traveler information.
- The center shall provide transit service information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
- The center shall provide weather and event information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
- The center shall provide work zone and roadway maintenance information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
- The center shall provide yellow pages services information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
- The center shall receive and forward region-specific wide-area alert and advisory information to the traveler telephone information system, including major emergencies such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, child abductions, severe weath
Interfaces
Standards
| SDO | Document ID | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | View List | NTCIP Center-to-Center 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 |
Operational Concepts
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