Project Name:

Project Details: TX 480 Outer Loop ITS

Description:

Flood sensors on TX State Highway 480 Loop to determine if a flood condition exists, and signs to disseminate this information.

Status:

Planned

Timeframe:

Short

Geographic Scope:

TX 480 Loop

Service Scope

Traffic Management, Emergency Management, Maintenance and Construction

Stakeholders:

Service Packages:

Project Inventory:

MCM Environmental Information Processing

• The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Roadway Environmental Monitoring

• The field element shall include surface and sub-surface environmental sensors that measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other measures.
• The field element shall include environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
• The field element's environmental sensors shall be remotely controlled by a maintenance center.
• The field element's environmental sensors shall be remotely controlled by a traffic management center.
• The field element shall provide environmental sensor equipment operational status to the controlling center or maintenance vehicle.
• The field element shall provide environmental sensor equipment fault indication to the controlling center or maintenance vehicle.
• The field element shall provide weather and road surface condition data to centers.
• The field element shall provide weather and road surface condition data to maintenance and construction vehicles.

Roadway Warning

• The field element shall monitor for hazardous road surface and local weather conditions.
• The field element shall provide collected sensor data to the controlling center.
• The field element shall autonomously identify potentially hazardous conditions and activate warning signs to approaching motorists.
• The field element shall receive commands from the controlling center that activate warning signs to approaching motorists.
• The field element shall collect operational status of the warning system field equipment and report the operational status to the controlling center.
• The field element shall monitor and report faults to the controlling center.

TMC Environmental Monitoring

• The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
• 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 roadway maintenance operations, and environmental data collected from sensors deployed on and about the roadway.
• The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing.

TMC Roadway Warning

• The center shall monitor data on traffic, environmental conditions, and other hazards collected from sensors along the roadway.
• The center shall monitor the operational status of the dynamic warning equipment, including fault reports.

Traffic Equipment Maintenance

• 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.