Santa Fe Regional ITS Architecture Update

NMDOT District 5 Traffic Operations Center

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Description

Development of District 5 TOC.

Status

Planned

Timeframe

Medium

Geographic Scope

Service Scope

Stakeholders

City of Santa Fe Public Works Department

New Mexico Department of Public Safety - DPS

New Mexico General Services Department

NMDOT - New Mexico Department of Transportation

RECC Joint Powers Agreement

Santa Fe County Public Works

Inventory

City of Santa Fe Traffic Operations Section

NMDOT District 5 CCTV

NMDOT District 5 Field Sensors

NMDOT District 5 Maintenance Dispatch

NMDOT District 5 TOC

NMDOT Statewide TMC

Regional Emergency Communications Center (RECC)

Santa Fe Control

Santa Fe County Traffic Operations Center

State Police District 1 Dispatch

Services

ATMS01-2 - Network Surveillance - NMDOT District 5

ATMS03-3 - Surface Street Control - NMDOT (2 of 2)

ATMS04-1 - Freeway Control - NMDOT

ATMS06-2 - Traffic Information Dissemination - NMDOT

ATMS07-1 - Regional Traffic Management -

ATMS08-02 - Traffic Incident Management System - NMDOT (TM to EM)

ATMS08-06 - Traffic Incident Management System - NMDOT District 5 TMC (TM to MCM)

Functional Areas

Collect Traffic Surveillance

• 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 monitor, analyze, and distribute traffic images from CCTV systems under remote control of the center.
• 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 respond to control data from center personnel regarding sensor and surveillance data collection, analysis, storage, and distribution.
• 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 is, the agency or entity responsible for collecting and storing surveillance of the link) in the network.
• 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.

Emergency Response Management

• The center shall develop, coordinate with other agencies, and store emergency response plans.
• The center shall track the availability of resources and coordinate resource sharing with allied agency centers including traffic, maintenance, or other emergency centers.
• The center shall allocate the appropriate emergency services, resources, and vehicle (s) to respond to incidents, and shall provide the capability to override the current allocation to suit the special needs of a current incident.
• The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to provide inputs to the management of incidents, disasters and evacuations.

Roadway Basic Surveillance

• 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 collect, process, and send traffic images to the center for further analysis and distribution.
• The field element shall return sensor operational status to the controlling center.
• The field element shall return sensor fault data to the controlling center for repair.
• The field element shall return CCTV system operational status to the controlling center.
• The field element shall return CCTV system fault data to the controlling center for repair.

TMC Freeway Management

• The center shall remotely control systems to manage use of the freeways, including 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 collect fault data from ramp meters, mainline metering, and lane controls.
• 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, downstream, and queue data on the ramps themselves.

TMC Incident Detection

• The center shall collect and store traffic flow and image data from 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 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 support requests from emergency management centers and border inspection systems to remotely control sensor and surveillance equipment located in the field.
• 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.

TMC Incident Dispatch Coordination/Communication

• 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 public. The information may include the alert originator, the nature of the emergency, the geographic area affected by the emergency, the effective time period, and information and instructions necessary for the public to respond to the alert. This may also identify specific information that should not be released to the public.
• 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 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 preemption.
• 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 duration, and response information.
• 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 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 provide road network conditions and traffic images to emergency management centers, maintenance and construction centers, and traveler information service providers.
• 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 capacity, required closures, alternate routes, necessary restrictions, and time frame for repair and recovery.
• The center shall coordinate information and controls with other traffic management 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 infrastructure.
• 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.

TMC Regional Traffic Management

• 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 remotely control dynamic messages signs for dissemination of traffic and other information to drivers.
• 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 collect operational status for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.).
• The center shall collect fault data for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.) for repair.
• 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 restrictions (lane/shoulder use, weight restrictions, width restrictions, HOV requirements), and the definition of the road network itself.
• 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.

Traffic Maintenance

• The center shall collect and store sensor (traffic, pedestrian, multimodal crossing) operational status.
• 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 CCTV surveillance system (traffic, pedestrian) fault data send to the maintenance center for repair.
• The center shall collect environmental sensor operational status.
• The center shall collect environmental sensor equipment fault data and send to the maintenance center for repair.
• 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

Source	Architecture Flows	Destination
NMDOT District 5 CCTV	traffic images	NMDOT District 5 TOC
NMDOT District 5 CCTV	field device status	NMDOT Signal Lab
NMDOT District 5 DMS	roadway information system status	NMDOT District 5 TOC
NMDOT District 5 Field Sensors	freeway control status	NMDOT District 5 TOC
NMDOT District 5 Field Sensors	traffic flow	NMDOT District 5 TOC
NMDOT District 5 HAR	roadway information system status	NMDOT District 5 TOC
NMDOT District 5 TOC	traffic information coordination	City of Santa Fe Traffic Operations Section
NMDOT District 5 TOC	video surveillance control	NMDOT District 5 CCTV
NMDOT District 5 TOC	roadway information system data	NMDOT District 5 DMS
NMDOT District 5 TOC	freeway control data	NMDOT District 5 Field Sensors
NMDOT District 5 TOC	traffic sensor control	NMDOT District 5 Field Sensors
NMDOT District 5 TOC	roadway information system data	NMDOT District 5 HAR
NMDOT District 5 TOC	maint and constr resource request	NMDOT District 5 Maintenance Dispatch
NMDOT District 5 TOC	road network conditions	NMDOT District 5 Maintenance Dispatch
NMDOT District 5 TOC	traffic information coordination	NMDOT Statewide TMC
NMDOT District 5 TOC	road network conditions	Regional Emergency Communications Center (RECC)
NMDOT District 5 TOC	incident information	Santa Fe Control
NMDOT District 5 TOC	traffic images	Santa Fe Control
NMDOT District 5 TOC	traffic information coordination	Santa Fe County Traffic Operations Center
NMDOT District 5 TOC	incident information	State Police District 1 Dispatch
NMDOT Statewide TMC	traffic information coordination	NMDOT District 5 TOC
Santa Fe Control	incident information	NMDOT District 5 TOC
Santa Fe County Traffic Operations Center	traffic information coordination	NMDOT District 5 TOC
State Police District 1 Dispatch	incident information	NMDOT District 5 TOC

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 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

Operational Concepts

Stakeholder	Roles and Responsibilities