Toledo Regional ITS Architecture Update (Final)

Element: TARTA Fixed Route Vehicles


Description: 180 vehicles, 33 fixed routes, 300 employees, buses City of Toledo school children to and from school. AVL-equipped transit vehicles without schedule adherence (know where the buses are, but not if they are ahead or behind schedule). Stop announcements are pre-programmed. Stops are automatically called out based on location info provided by the GPS system. All new (53% of fleet) fixed route vehicles have 2-5 cameras per bus. Cameras record to a hard drive on the bus. Currently info is not sent back to the garage from the bus. There are panic buttons on each bus and each operator can connect to the Central Garage via radio.
Status: Existing
Stakeholder: Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority (TARTA)
Functional Areas:
(Linked to Functional Requirements)
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On-board Fixed Route Schedule Management
On-board Maintenance
On-board Transit Fare and Load Management
On-board Transit Information Services
On-board Transit Security
On-board Transit Signal Priority
On-board Transit Trip Monitoring
Interfaces:
(Flows)

City of Toledo Field Equipment
Lucas County Field Equipment
Regional Smart Card
TARTA Central Garage
TARTA Dispatch
Traveler Information Device
Service Packages: APTS01 - Transit Vehicle Tracking - TARTA/ TARPS
APTS02 - Transit Fixed-Route Operations - TARTA
APTS04 - Transit Fare Collection Management - TARTA
APTS05 - Transit Security - TARTA
APTS06 - Transit Fleet Management - TARTA
APTS08 - Transit Traveler Information - TARTA
APTS09 - Transit Signal Priority - TARTA / Lucas County TSP
APTS09 - Transit Signal Priority - TARTA / City of Toledo TSP
APTS10 - Transit Passenger Counting - TARTA
Mapping: Transit Vehicle