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MCM Vehicle Tracking Equipment Package

Architecture Geographic Scope

Description:

Remotely tracks the location of maintenance and construction vehicles and other equipment; presented to the center personnel.

 

Included in:

City of Livingston Public Works
City of Lufkin Maintenance
City of Nacogdoches Public Works
County Road and Bridge
Municipal PWD
TxDOT Lufkin District Maintenance Sections

Functional Requirements:

1The center shall monitor the locations of all maintenance and construction vehicles and other equipment under its jurisdiction.
2The center shall present location data to center personnel for the fleet of maintenance and construction vehicles and other equipment.
3The 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 maintenance and construction vehicle tracking.
  

User Service Requirements (fully or partially addressed):

8.0MAINTENANCE AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
8.1MAINTENANCE AND CONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS
8.1.1Maintenance and Construction Operations shall provide a Maintenance Vehicle Fleet Management (MVFM) function to schedule and dispatch, monitor and track location, and monitor operational condition and maintenance requirements of public and contracted fleets of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles. This function includes interactions among Traffic Managers, Supervisors, Dispatchers, Field Crews, Construction Crews, Vehicle Maintenance Crews, Equipment Maintenance Crews, Weather Services Organizations, and Information Service Providers.
8.1.1.1MVFM shall be capable of monitoring and tracking the locations of public and contracted fleets of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles to provide current location and status information.
8.1.1.1.1MVFM shall be capable of monitoring and tracking the locations of fleets of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles, including but not limited to:
8.1.1.1.1(a)Roadway maintenance trucks
8.1.1.1.1(b)Other motorized roadway maintenance equipment
8.1.1.1.1(c)Roadway construction trucks
8.1.1.1.1(d)Other motorized roadway construction equipment
8.1.1.1.1(f)Snow plows
8.1.1.1.1(g)Salt / sand trucks
8.1.1.1.1(h)Bucket trucks
8.1.1.1.1(i)Vegetation Control and Grass cutting equipment
8.1.1.1.1(j)Traffic control vehicles
8.1.1.1.1(k)Street and drainage cleaning vehicles
8.1.1.1.2MVFM shall be capable of monitoring information regarding fleets of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles, including but not limited to:
8.1.1.1.2(a)Location
8.1.1.1.2(b)Speed
8.1.1.1.3MVFM shall be capable of tracking the past location and movement of maintenance, construction, and specialized vehicles.
8.1.1.2MVFM shall be capable of supporting route scheduling and dispatching of public and contracted fleets of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles.
8.1.1.3MVFM shall be capable of supporting interactive data communications between dispatchers and operators of public and contracted maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles.
8.1.1.6MVFM shall be capable of providing dispatchers and operators of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles with information regarding potential and actual roadway problems.
8.1.1.6.1MVFM shall provide information to dispatchers and vehicle operators, including but not limited to:
8.1.1.6.1(a)Congestion
8.1.1.6.1(b)Incidents
8.1.1.6.1(c)Roadway restrictions
8.1.2Maintenance and Construction Operations shall provide a Roadway Management (RWM) function to monitor traffic, road surface, and environmental conditions and forecast traffic and road surface conditions to support management of routine and hazardous road condition remediation and to communicate changes in conditions. This function includes interactions among Traffic Managers, Supervisors, Dispatchers, Field Crews, Construction Crews, Asset Managers, Planning Agencies, and Weather Services Organizations.
8.1.2.1RWM shall support a number of different services, including but not limited to:
8.1.2.1(a)Winter maintenance (plowing, treating, anti-icing, de-icing, etc.)
8.1.2.1(b)Hazard removal (removing trash, animals, etc.)
8.1.2.1(c)Emergency activities (incident response, planning, alternate routing, etc.)
8.1.2.1(d)Routine maintenance activities (cleaning, cutting, etc.)
8.1.2.1(e)Repair activities
8.1.2.1(f)Other weather related activities (fog dispersion, etc.)
8.1.2.9RWM shall monitor, manage, and control remotely located, automated systems, that affect the roadway surface (e.g. de-icing/anti-icing applications).
  
The detailed process and user service requirement traceability information on this page was extracted from the National ITS Architecture. Consult the National ITS Architecture web site for more information.

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