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Memphis Area Regional ITS Architecture
ITS Functional Requirements
Report Version 1.1
April 15, 2002
Prepared for the Tennessee Department of Transportation
Memphis Area ITS Functional Requirements
To effectively deliver ITS services in the Memphis area, each system must
perform certain functions. A functional requirement can be written for each
function that an element needs to perform. The lists below detail the primary
functional requirements for the major ITS elements in the Memphis area. These
requirements are high-level functional requirements, not detailed design requirements.
Stakeholder: Arkansas Highway Patrol
System: Arkansas Highway Patrol Dispatch
This system shall:
- receive 9-1-1 and 7-digit local access calls.
- collect available information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- forward information on emergency about emergency to other systems that
formulate and manage the emergency response.
- collect and store emergency information that is collected in the course
of emergency operations.
- provide emergency data to operations personnel and other data users and
archives in the region.
- efficiently dispatch emergency vehicles to an incident.
- provide safe and efficient routes based on real-time traffic information.
- develop and store emergency response plans.
- manage overall coordinated response to emergencies.
- track the availability of resources and assist in the appropriate allocation
of resources for a particular emergency response.
- provide coordination between multiple allied agencies before and during
emergencies to implement emergency response plans and track progress through
the incident.
- receive mayday messages, determine an appropriate response, and either
use internal resources or contact a local agency to provide that response.
Stakeholder: Arkansas State Highway and Transportation
Department
System: Arkansas Commercial Vehicle Administration
This system shall:
- provide administrative capabilities including database management and
administrator-to-roadside and administrator-to-administrator interfaces.
- manage the electronic credentials database for a state, perform reconciliation
of mileage and fuel taxes, and interface with roadsides performing credential
checks.
- communicate and coordinate with other state commercial vehicle administrations.
- collect and store information on commercial vehicles.
- make data available to other data users and archives in the region.
- support the exchange of safety and credentials data among jurisdictions.
- support the exchange of safety and credentials data between agencies
(for example, an administrative center and the roadside check facilities)
within a single jurisdiction.
- collect data from multiple authoritative sources and package it into
snapshots (top-level summary and critical status information) and profiles
(detailed and historical data).
- ensure that safety criteria are available for automated roadside safety
checks.
- collect and review carrier safety data and determine the carrier safety
rating based on supplied criteria.
Stakeholder: Arkansas State Highway and Transportation
Department
System: Arkansas Commercial Vehicle Field Equipment
This system shall:
- document violations and forward the information to the commercial vehicle
if available and to the commercial vehicle administration for processing
as part of the normal credentials processing package.
- communicate two-way with approaching properly equipped commercial vehicles
at mainline speeds.
- read tags for automated vehicle identification and credential checking.
- appropriately screen all vehicles, not just those that are equipped.
- process data from commercial vehicle along with database information
to determine whether a pull-in message is needed.
- generate random pull-in messages with provisions for facility operators
and enforcement officials to have manual override capabilities.
- automate the roadside safety inspection process including the use of
hand held devices to rapidly inspect the vehicle and driver.
- automate the roadside safety inspection process including the support
of automated mainline speed reading of on-board safety data to rapidly screen
the vehicle and driver.
- collect, store, maintain, and provide safety data and access historical
safety data after receiving identification from vehicles at mainline speeds
or while stopped at the roadside.
- write the results of screening and summary safety inspection back onto
a tag.
- process safety data and issue pull-in messages or provide warnings to
the driver, carrier, and enforcement agencies.
- support the concept of a last clearance event record (e.g. trip ticket)
carried on the vehicle's tag.
- perform roadside high speed weigh in motion.
Stakeholder: Arkansas State Highway and Transportation
Department
System: Arkansas TMC
This system shall:
- collect, store, and provide electronic access to traffic surveillance
data.
- control systems for efficient freeway management including integration
of surveillance information with freeway geometry, vehicle control such
as ramp metering, DMS, and HAR.
- interface to coordinated traffic systems for information dissemination
to the public.
- detect and verify incidents.
- analyze and reduce collected data from traffic surveillance equipment,
including planned incidents and hazardous conditions.
- formulate an incident response minimizing the incident potential, incident
impacts, and/or resources required for incident management.
- propose and facilitate the dispatch of emergency response and service
vehicles as well as coordinate response with all appropriate agencies.
- analyze, control, and optimize area-wide traffic flow.
- perform wide area optimization integrating control of a network signal
system with control of freeway, considering current demand as well as expected
demand with a goal of providing traffic adaptive control while balancing
inter-jurisdictional control issues to achieve regional solutions.
- communicate with other TMCs to receive and transmit traffic information
to other jurisdictions within the region.
- collect and store traffic information that is collected in the course
of traffic operations.
- provide traffic data to operations personnel or other data users and archives
in the region.
- monitor and diagnosis field equipment remotely to detect failures, issue
problem reports, and track the repair or replacement of the failed equipment.
Stakeholder: Center City Commission
System: Center City Downtown Parking System
This system shall:
- collect and store parking information that is collected in the course
of parking system operations.
- provide parking data to operations personnel or other data users and
archives in the region.
- support electronic payment of parking fees.
- detect and classify properly equipped vehicles entering and exiting the
parking facility
- maintain information on parking availability and pricing structure information.
- enable processing of financial transactions and external coordination.
- detect and classify vehicles entering and exiting the parking facility.
- measure parking facility occupancy to support parking operations and
traveler information services.
Stakeholder: City of Bartlett Traffic Department
System: City of Bartlett TCC
This system shall:
- collect, store, and provide electronic access to traffic surveillance
data.
- monitor highway-rail intersection (HRI) equipment at the roadside which
manages highway traffic.
- receive additional information on approaching trains and detect and report
obstructions in the HRI.
- remotely monitor and report the status of the roadside equipment.
- generate status requests and remote control plan updates.
- receive periodic status updates in the absence of a request or asynchronously
in the event of a detected failure or other unsafe condition at the intersection.
- detect and verify incidents.
- analyze and reduce collected data from traffic surveillance equipment,
including planned incidents and hazardous conditions.
- formulate an incident response minimizing the incident potential, incident
impacts, and/or resources required for incident management.
- propose and facilitate the dispatch of emergency response and service
vehicles as well as coordinate response with all appropriate agencies.
- analyze, control, and optimize area-wide traffic flow.
- perform wide area optimization integrating control of a network signal
system with control of freeway, considering current demand as well as expected
demand with a goal of traffic adaptive control while balancing inter-jurisdictional
control issues to achieve regional solutions.
- communicate with other TMCs to receive and transmit traffic information
to other jurisdictions within the region.
- monitor and manage the traffic flow at signalized intersections.
- analyze and reduce the collected data from traffic surveillance equipment
and develop and implement control plans for signalized intersections.
- develop and implement control plans that coordinate signals at many intersections.
- disseminate incident related information to travelers, potential travelers,
and private information service providers.
- collect and store traffic information that is collected in the course
of traffic operations.
- provide traffic data to operations personnel or other data users and archives
in the region.
- monitor and diagnosis field equipment remotely to detect failures, issue
problem reports, and track the repair or replacement of the failed equipment.
- notify utility company of problems with utilities.
Stakeholder: City of Bartlett Traffic Department
System: City of Bartlett Traffic Field Equipment
This system shall:
- monitor traffic flow.
- monitor surveillance equipment and interfaces and report detected abnormalities.
- control traffic signals.
- receive vehicle signal priority requests and send requests to traffic
signal controllers accordingly.
- monitor the traffic signal equipment and interfaces and report detected
abnormalities.
- display traffic information on equipment along the roadway including
DMS and HAR.
- monitor DMS and HAR equipment and interfaces and report detected abnormalities.
- manage highway traffic at highway-rail intersections (HRIs).
- provide pre-emption of adjacent signalized intersections when activated
on notification by interfaced wayside equipment of an approaching train.
- monitor the HRI equipment and interfaces and report detected abnormalities
through the wayside equipment and traffic management center.
Stakeholder: City of Bartlett Public Works
Department
System: City of Bartlett Public Works
This system shall:
- respond to resource request.
- send response to requesting agency.
- notify transportation and emergency agencies of planned construction
and street closures.
Stakeholder: City of Collierville Traffic Department
System: City of Collierville TCC
This system shall:
- collect, store, and provide electronic access to traffic surveillance
data.
- monitor highway-rail intersection (HRI) equipment at the roadside which
manages highway traffic.
- receive additional information on approaching trains and detect and report
obstructions in the HRI.
- remotely monitor and report the status of the roadside equipment.
- generate status requests and remote control plan updates.
- receive periodic status updates in the absence of a request or asynchronously
in the event of a detected failure or other unsafe condition at the intersection.
- detect and verify incidents.
- analyze and reduce collected data from traffic surveillance equipment,
including planned incidents and hazardous conditions.
- formulate an incident response minimizing the incident potential, incident
impacts, and/or resources required for incident management.
- propose and facilitate the dispatch of emergency response and service
vehicles as well as coordinate response with all appropriate agencies.
- analyze, control, and optimize area-wide traffic flow.
- perform wide area optimization integrating control of a network signal
system with control of freeway, considering current demand as well as expected
demand with a goal of traffic adaptive control while balancing inter-jurisdictional
control issues to achieve regional solutions.
- communicate with other TMCs to receive and transmit traffic information
to other jurisdictions within the region.
- monitor and manage the traffic flow at signalized intersections.
- analyze and reduce the collected data from traffic surveillance equipment
and develop and implement control plans for signalized intersections.
- develop and implement control plans that coordinate signals at many intersections.
- disseminate incident related information to travelers, potential travelers,
and private information service providers.
- collect and store traffic information that is collected in the course
of traffic operations.
- provide traffic data to operations personnel or other data users and archives
in the region.
- monitor and diagnosis field equipment remotely to detect failures, issue
problem reports, and track the repair or replacement of the failed equipment.
Stakeholder: City of Collierville Traffic
Department
System: City of Collierville Traffic Field Equipment
This system shall:
- monitor traffic flow.
- monitor surveillance equipment and interfaces and report detected abnormalities.
- control traffic signals.
- receive vehicle signal priority requests and send requests to traffic
signal controllers accordingly.
- monitor the traffic signal equipment and interfaces and report detected
abnormalities.
- display traffic information on equipment along the roadway including DMS
and HAR.
- monitor DMS and HAR equipment and interfaces and report detected abnormalities.
- manage highway traffic at highway-rail intersections (HRIs).
- provide pre-emption of adjacent signalized intersections when activated
on notification by interfaced wayside equipment of an approaching train.
- monitor the HRI equipment and interfaces and report detected abnormalities
through the wayside equipment and traffic management center.
Stakeholder: City of Collierville Public
Works Department
System: City of Collierville Public Works
This system shall:
- respond to resource request.
- send response to requesting agency.
- notify transportation and emergency agencies of planned construction and
street closures.
Stakeholder: City of Germantown Traffic Department
System: City of Germantown TCC
This system shall:
- monitor highway-rail intersection (HRI) equipment at the roadside which
manages highway traffic.
- receive additional information on approaching trains and detect and report
obstructions in the HRI.
- remotely monitor and report the status of the roadside equipment.
- generate status requests and remote control plan updates.
- receive periodic status updates in the absence of a request or asynchronously
in the event of a detected failure or other unsafe condition at the intersection.
- detect and verify incidents.
- analyze and reduce collected data from traffic surveillance equipment,
including planned incidents and hazardous conditions.
- formulate an incident response minimizing the incident potential, incident
impacts, and/or resources required for incident management.
- propose and facilitate the dispatch of emergency response and service
vehicles as well as coordinate response with all appropriate agencies.
- analyze, control, and optimize area-wide traffic flow.
- perform wide area optimization integrating control of a network signal
system with control of freeway, considering current demand as well as expected
demand with a goal of traffic adaptive control while balancing inter-jurisdictional
control issues to achieve regional solutions.
- communicate with other TMCs to receive and transmit traffic information
to other jurisdictions within the region.
- monitor and manage the traffic flow at signalized intersections.
- analyze and reduce the collected data from traffic surveillance equipment
and develop and implement control plans for signalized intersections.
- develop and implement control plans that coordinate signals at many intersections.
- disseminate incident related information to travelers, potential travelers,
and private information service providers.
- collect and store traffic information that is collected in the course
of traffic operations.
- provide traffic data to operations personnel or other data users and archives
in the region.
- monitor and diagnosis field equipment remotely to detect failures, issue
problem reports, and track the repair or replacement of the failed equipment.
Stakeholder: City of Germantown Traffic Department
System: City of Germantown Traffic Field Equipment
This system shall:
- monitor traffic flow.
- monitor surveillance equipment and interfaces and report detected abnormalities.
- control traffic signals.
- receive vehicle signal priority requests and send requests to traffic
signal controllers accordingly.
- monitor the traffic signal equipment and interfaces and report detected
abnormalities.
- display traffic information on equipment along the roadway including DMS
and HAR.
- monitor DMS and HAR equipment and interfaces and report detected abnormalities.
- manage highway traffic at highway-rail intersections (HRIs).
- provide pre-emption of adjacent signalized intersections when activated
on notification by interfaced wayside equipment of an approaching train.
- monitor the HRI equipment and interfaces and report detected abnormalities
through the wayside equipment and traffic management center.
Stakeholder: City of Germantown Public Works
Department
System: City of Germantown Public Works
This system shall:
- respond to resource request.
- send response to requesting agency.
- notify transportation and emergency agencies of planned construction and
street closures.
Stakeholder: MATA
System: MATA Automated Call Center
This system shall:
- collect, process, store, and disseminate transit traveler information.
- maintain a database of local area transit services available to travelers
with up-to-the-minute information.
- include the latest available information on transit routes and schedules,
transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence.
- provide users with real-time travel related information en-route to assist
the travelers in making decisions about transfers and modification of trips.
- provide interactive traveler information.
Stakeholder: MATA
System: MATA Fixed Route Vehicles
This system shall:
- automate planning and scheduling by collecting data for schedule generation.
- automatically determine optimum scenarios for schedule adjustment.
- support two-way voice communication between the transit vehicle driver
and a facility, two-way data communication between the transit vehicles
and a facility, on-board safety sensor data to be transmitted from the transit
vehicles to a facility, and data transmission from individual facilities
to a central facility for processing/analysis.
- use transit vehicle mileage data to automatically generate preventative
maintenance schedules for each bus by utilizing vehicle tracking data and
storing with a trip computer.
- monitor on board the vehicle in real-time, and transmit information via
two-way communication to the management center.
- collect data required to determine accurate ridership levels and implement
variable and flexible fare structures.
- support use of a fare medium for all applicable surface transportation
services, allow the traveler to pay without stopping, have payment media
automatically identified as void and/or invalid and eligibility verified,
and allow for third party payment.
- provide expansion into other uses for payment medium such as retail and
telephone and for off-line billing for fares paid by agencies shall be supported.
- support two-way voice communication between the transit vehicle driver
and a facility, two-way data communication between the transit vehicles
and a facility, sensor data to be transmitted from the transit vehicles
to a facility, and data transmission from individual facilities to a central
facility for processing/analysis if desired.
- monitor the safety of transit vehicles using on-board safety sensors,
processors and communications from on-board system.
- support fleet management with automated mileage and fuel reporting and
auditing.
- request signal priority from equipment on the roadside.
- track transit vehicle and transmit location to dispatch.
Stakeholder: MATA
System: MATA Light Rail Vehicles
This system shall:
- use transit vehicle mileage data to automatically generate preventative
maintenance schedules for each bus by utilizing vehicle tracking data and
storing with a trip computer.
- monitor on board the vehicle in real-time, and transmit information via
two-way communication to the management center.
- collect data required to determine accurate ridership levels and implement
variable and flexible fare structures.
- support use of a fare medium for all applicable surface transportation
services, allow the traveler to pay without stopping, have payment media
automatically identified as void and/or invalid and eligibility verified,
and allow for third party payment.
- provide expansion into other uses for payment medium such as retail and
telephone and for off-line billing for fares paid by agencies shall be supported.
- support two-way voice communication between the transit vehicle driver
and a facility, two-way data communication between the transit vehicles
and a facility, sensor data to be transmitted from the transit vehicles
to a facility, and data transmission from individual facilities to a central
facility for processing/analysis if desired.
- monitor the safety of transit vehicles using on-board safety sensors,
processors and communications from on-board system.
- support fleet management with automated mileage and fuel reporting and
auditing.
- request signal priority from equipment on the roadside.
- track transit vehicle and transmit location to dispatch.
Stakeholder: MATA
System: MATA Plus Vehicles
This system shall:
- use transit vehicle mileage data to automatically generate preventative
maintenance schedules for each bus by utilizing vehicle tracking data and
storing with a trip computer.
- monitor on board the vehicle in real-time, and transmit information via
two-way communication to the management center.
- forward paratransit dispatch requests to the driver and forward acknowledgements
to the center.
- assist the driver in managing multi-stop runs associated with demand
responsive, flexibly routed transit services.
- collect data required to determine accurate ridership levels and implement
variable and flexible fare structures.
- support use of a fare medium for all applicable surface transportation
services, allow the traveler to pay without stopping, have payment media
automatically identified as void and/or invalid and eligibility verified,
and allow for third party payment.
- provide expansion into other uses for payment medium such as retail and
telephone and for off-line billing for fares paid by agencies shall be supported.
- support two-way voice communication between the transit vehicle driver
and a facility, two-way data communication between the transit vehicles
and a facility, sensor data to be transmitted from the transit vehicles
to a facility, and data transmission from individual facilities to a central
facility for processing/analysis if desired.
- monitor the safety of transit vehicles using on-board safety sensors,
processors and communications from on-board system.
- support fleet management with automated mileage and fuel reporting and
auditing.
- track transit vehicle and transmit location to dispatch.
Stakeholder: MATA
System: MATA Transit Management Center
This system shall:
- accept collected data required to determine accurate ridership levels
and implement variable and flexible fare structures.
- support use of a fare medium for all applicable surface transportation
services, have payment media automatically identified as void and/or invalid
and eligibility verified, and allow for third party payment.
- allow two-way voice communication between the transit vehicle driver and
a facility, two-way data communication between the transit vehicles and
a facility, sensor data to be transmitted from the transit vehicles to a
facility, and data transmission from individual facilities to a central
facility for processing/analysis.
- allow fixed-route services to develop, print and disseminate schedules
and automatically update customer service operator systems with the most
current schedule information.
- use current vehicle schedule adherence and optimum scenarios for schedule
adjustment.
- collect the latest available information for a transit service and make
it available to transit customers and to Information Service Providers for
further distribution.
- provide information to customers at transit stops and other public transportation
areas before they embark and on-board the transit vehicle once they are
enroute.
- provide information including the latest available information on transit
routes, schedules, transfer options, fares, real-time schedule adherence,
current incidents, weather conditions, and special events.
- provide tailored information (e.g, itineraries) to individual transit
users when requested.
- support schedule coordination between transit properties and coordinates
with other surface and air transportation modes.
- monitor key transit locations and transit vehicles with both video and
audio systems automatically alerting operators and police of potential incidents.
- support traveler activated alarms including responding to terrorist incidents.
- monitor transit vehicle locations and determine vehicle schedule adherence.
- furnish users with real-time travel related information, continuously
updated with real-time information from each transit system within the local
area of jurisdiction, inclusive of all transportation modes, from all providers
of transportation services, and provide users with the latest available
information on transit routes, schedules, transfer options, fares, real-time
schedule adherence, current incidents conditions, weather conditions, and
special events.
- support two-way voice communication between the transit vehicle driver
and a facility, two-way data communication between the transit vehicles
and a facility.
- collect and store transit information that is collected in the course
of transit operations.
- provide transit data to operations personnel or other data users and archives
in the region.
- provide advanced maintenance functions for the transit property.
- collect operational and maintenance data from transit vehicles, manages
vehicle service histories, and monitors drivers and vehicles.
- collect vehicle mileage data and use it to automatically generate preventative
maintenance schedules for each vehicle by utilizing vehicle tracking data
from a prerequisite vehicle tracking equipment package.
- provide information to proper service personnel to support maintenance
activities and records and verify that maintenance work was performed.
- receive special events and real-time incident data from the traffic management
center and assigns operators to vehicles and transit routes.
- receive information about incidents involving transit vehicles from the
Transit Management system in order to dispatch tow trucks and other repair
vehicles.
- automate and support the assignment of transit vehicles and drivers to
enhance the daily operation of a transit service.
- assign drivers to routes or service areas in a fair manner while minimizing
labor and overtime services, considering driver preferences and qualifications,
and automatically tracking and validating the number of work hours performed
by each driver.
Stakeholder: MATA
System: MATA Transit Website Server
This system shall:
- collect, process, store, and disseminate transit traveler information.
- maintain a database of local area transit services available to travelers
with up-to-the-minute information.
- include the latest available information on transit routes and schedules,
transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence.
- provide users with real-time travel related information en-route to assist
the travelers in making decisions about transfers and modification of trips.
- provide interactive traveler information.
Stakeholder: MATA
System: MATA Traveler Info Kiosks
This system shall:
- send formatted traffic advisories including accurate traveling information
concerning available travel options and their availability, and congestion
information at kiosks.
- accept a common fare medium for all applicable surface transportation
services, to pay without stopping, have payment media automatically identified
as void and/or invalid and eligibility verified.
- provide real-time travel-related information to transit users at transit
stops, multi-modal transfer points, and other public transportation areas.
- provide the latest available information on transit routes, schedules,
transfer options, fares, real-time schedule adherence, and special events.
- supports general annunciation and/or display of imminent arrival information
and other information of general interest to transit users.
- provide information tailored for individual transit users.
Stakeholder: Memphis City Fire Services
System: Memphis City Fire Dispatch
This system shall:
- receive transferred emergency calls.
- collect available information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- forward information on emergency on emergency to other systems that formulate
and manage the emergency response.
- collect and store emergency information that is collected in the course
of emergency operations.
- provide emergency data to operations personnel and other data users and
archives in the region.
- efficiently dispatch emergency vehicles to an incident.
- track emergency vehicles.
- provide safe and efficient routes based on real-time traffic information.
- develop and store emergency response plans.
- manage overall coordinated response to emergencies.
- track the availability of resources and assist in the appropriate allocation
of resources for a particular emergency response.
- provide coordination between multiple allied agencies before and during
emergencies to implement emergency response plans and track progress through
the incident.
Stakeholder: Memphis City Fire Services
System: Memphis City Fire Vehicles
This system shall:
- provide dispatch and routing information.
- track fire vehicle and transmit location to dispatch.
- preempt signals via short range communication directly with traffic control
equipment at the roadside.
- provide safe and expedient arrival on the incident scene.
- provide a direct interface between the emergency vehicle and incident
management personnel.
Stakeholder: Memphis City Police Department
System: Memphis City Police Dispatch
This system shall:
- receive 9-1-1 and 7-digit local access.
- transfer emergency calls to appropriate system.
- collect available information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- forward information on emergency to other systems that formulate and
manage the emergency response.
- collect and store emergency information that is collected in the course
of emergency operations.
- provide emergency data to operations personnel and other data users and
archives in the region.
- efficiently dispatch emergency vehicles to an incident.
- provide safe and efficient routes based on real-time traffic information.
- develop and store emergency response plans.
- manage overall coordinated response to emergencies.
- track the availability of resources and assist in the appropriate allocation
of resources for a particular emergency response.
- provide coordination between multiple allied agencies before and during
emergencies to implement emergency response plans and track progress through
the incident.
- receive mayday messages, determine an appropriate response, and either
use internal resources or contact a local agency to provide that response.
Stakeholder: Memphis City Police Department
System: Memphis City Police Vehicles
This system shall:
- provide dispatch and routing information.
- provide safe and expedient arrival on the incident scene.
- provide a direct interface between the emergency vehicle and incident
management personnel.
Stakeholder: Memphis City Police Department
System: MPD Special Events System
This system shall:
- collect, store and provide planned events that might impact traffic.
- collect, store and provide planned road closures.
Stakeholder: Memphis City Traffic Department
System: Memphis City TOC
This system shall:
- collect, store, and provide electronic access to traffic surveillance
data.
- monitor highway-rail intersection (HRI) equipment at the roadside which
manages highway traffic.
- receive additional information on approaching trains and detect and report
obstructions in the HRI.
- remotely monitor and report the status of the roadside equipment.
- generate status requests and remote control plan updates.
- receive periodic status updates in the absence of a request or asynchronously
in the event of a detected failure or other unsafe condition at the intersection.
- detect and verify incidents.
- analyze and reduce collected data from traffic surveillance equipment,
including planned incidents and hazardous conditions.
- formulate an incident response minimizing the incident potential, incident
impacts, and/or resources required for incident management.
- propose and facilitate the dispatch of emergency response and service
vehicles as well as coordinate response with all appropriate agencies.
- provide traffic signal priority for transit vehicles.
- analyze, control, and optimize area-wide traffic flow.
- perform wide area optimization integrating control of a network signal
system with control of freeway, considering current demand as well as expected
demand with a goal of traffic adaptive control while balancing inter-jurisdictional
control issues to achieve regional solutions.
- communicate with other TMCs to receive and transmit traffic information
to other jurisdictions within the region.
- monitor and manage the traffic flow at signalized intersections.
- analyze and reduce the collected data from traffic surveillance equipment
and develop and implement control plans for signalized intersections.
- develop and implement control plans that coordinate signals at many intersections.
- disseminate incident related information to travelers, potential travelers,
and private information service providers.
- collect and store traffic information that is collected in the course
of traffic operations.
- provide traffic data to operations personnel or other data users and
archives in the region.
- monitor and diagnosis field equipment remotely to detect failures, issue
problem reports, and track the repair or replacement of the failed equipment.
Stakeholder: Memphis City Traffic Department
System: Memphis City Traffic Field Equipment
This system shall:
- monitor traffic flow.
- control traffic signals.
- provide pre-emption of adjacent signalized intersections.
- receive vehicle signal priority requests and send requests to traffic
signal controllers accordingly.
- display traffic information on equipment along the roadway including
DMS and HAR.
- manage highway traffic at highway-rail intersections (HRIs) when activated
on notification by interfaced wayside equipment of an approaching train.
- accept additional information about the arriving train from the wayside
equipment so that the train's direction of travel, its estimated time of
arrival, and the estimated duration of closure may be derived.
- convey information to the driver prior to, or in context with, warning
system activation.
- detect an entrapped or otherwise immobilized vehicle within the HRI and
provide an immediate notification to the wayside interface equipment and
traffic management.
- monitor the HRI equipment and interfaces and report detected abnormalities
through the wayside equipment and traffic management center.
Stakeholder: Memphis MPO
System: Memphis MPO Archive
This system shall:
- collect data from multiple data sources.
- store data in a focused repository.
- perform quality checks on the incoming data, error notification, and
archive to archive coordination.
- collect a focused set of data and serve a particular user community.
- collect, integrate, and summarize transportation data from multiple sources
and serve a broad array of users within a region.
- provide advanced data analysis, summarization, and mining features that
facilitate discovery of information, patterns, and correlations in large
data sets.
- collect and archive traffic, roadway, and environmental information for
use in off-line planning, research, and analysis.
Stakeholder: Memphis-Shelby County Emergency Operations
Center
System: Memphis-Shelby County EMA System
This system shall:
- collect and store emergency information that is collected in the course
of emergency operations.
- provide emergency data to operations personnel and other data users and
archives in the region.
- efficiently dispatch emergency vehicles to an incident.
- provide safe and efficient routes based on real-time traffic information.
- develop and store emergency response plans.
- manage overall coordinated response to emergencies.
- track the availability of resources and assist in the appropriate allocation
of resources for a particular emergency response.
- provide coordination between multiple allied agencies before and during
emergencies to implement emergency response plans and track progress through
the incident.
Stakeholder: Memphis-Shelby County Health Department
System: Memphis-Shelby County Emissions Management System
This system shall:
- collect and store air quality and emissions information.
- provide air quality and emissions data to operations personnel or other
data users and archives in the region.
- assimilate and store air quality measures and roadside collected emissions
data.
- distribute general air quality measures as general traveler information
and to other agencies in the region.
- analyze the collected roadside emissions to detect, identify, and notify
concerned parties regarding vehicles that exceed emissions standards.
Stakeholder: Memphis-Shelby County Health Department
System: Memphis-Shelby County Emissions Sensors
This system shall:
- monitor emissions and general air quality and communicate the collected
information back to the emissions management system where it can be monitored,
analyzed, and used.
- support point monitoring of individual vehicle emissions as well as general
monitoring of standard air quality measures.
Stakeholder: Memphis-Shelby County Planning and
Development
System: Memphis Area Rideshare
This system shall:
- collect, process, store, and disseminate traveler ridematching information.
- maintain a database of travelers and their work routes and provide connectivity
between travelers taking similar routes.
- provide dynamic rideshare matches including rider and driver information
and reservations.
- collect and store traveler information that is collected in the course
of ridematching operation.
- provide ridematching data to operations personnel or other data users
and archives in the region.
Stakeholder: Mississippi DOT
System: Mississippi Commercial Vehicle Administration
This system shall:
- provide administrative capabilities including database management and
administrator-to-roadside and administrator-to-administrator interfaces.
- manage the electronic credentials database for a state, perform reconciliation
of mileage and fuel taxes, and interface with roadsides performing credential
checks.
- communicate and coordinate with other state commercial vehicle administrations.
- collect and store information on commercial vehicles.
- make data available to other data users and archives in the region.
- support the exchange of safety and credentials data among jurisdictions.
- support the exchange of safety and credentials data between agencies
(for example, an administrative center and the roadside check facilities)
within a single jurisdiction.
- collect data from multiple authoritative sources and package it into
snapshots (top-level summary and critical status information) and profiles
(detailed and historical data).
- ensure that safety criteria are available for automated roadside safety
checks.
- collect and review carrier safety data and determine the carrier safety
rating based on supplied criteria.
Stakeholder: Mississippi DOT
System: Mississippi Commercial Vehicle Field Equipment
This system shall:
- document violations and forward the information to the commercial vehicle
if available and to the commercial vehicle administration for processing
as part of the normal credentials processing package.
- communicate two-way with approaching properly equipped commercial vehicles
at mainline speeds.
- read tags for automated vehicle identification and credential checking.
- appropriately screen all vehicles, not just those that are equipped.
- process data from commercial vehicle along with database information
to determine whether a pull-in message is needed.
- generate random pull-in messages with provisions for facility operators
and enforcement officials to have manual override capabilities.
- automate the roadside safety inspection process including the use of
hand held devices to rapidly inspect the vehicle and driver.
- automate the roadside safety inspection process including the support
of automated mainline speed reading of on-board safety data to rapidly screen
the vehicle and driver.
- collect, store, maintain, and provide safety data and access historical
safety data after receiving identification from vehicles at mainline speeds
or while stopped at the roadside.
- write the results of screening and summary safety inspection back onto
a tag.
- process safety data and issue pull-in messages or provide warnings to
the driver, carrier, and enforcement agencies.
- support the concept of a last clearance event record (e.g. trip ticket)
carried on the vehicle's tag.
- perform roadside high speed weigh in motion.
Stakeholder: Mississippi DOT
System: Mississippi TMC
This system shall:
- collect, store, and provide electronic access to traffic surveillance
data.
- control systems for efficient freeway management including integration
of surveillance information with freeway geometry, vehicle control such
as ramp metering, DMS, and HAR.
- Interface to coordinated traffic systems for information dissemination
to the public.
- detect and verify incidents.
- analyze and reduce collected data from traffic surveillance equipment,
including planned incidents and hazardous conditions.
- formulate an incident response minimizing the incident potential, incident
impacts, and/or resources required for incident management.
- propose and facilitate the dispatch of emergency response and service
vehicles as well as coordinate response with all appropriate agencies.
- analyze, control, and optimize area-wide traffic flow.
- perform wide area optimization integrating control of a network signal
system with control of freeway, considering current demand as well as expected
demand with a goal of traffic adaptive control while balancing inter-jurisdictional
control issues to achieve regional solutions.
- communicate with other TMCs to receive and transmit traffic information
to other jurisdictions within the region.
- collect and store traffic information that is collected in the course
of traffic operations.
- provide traffic data to operations personnel or other data users and
archives in the region.
- monitor and diagnosis field equipment remotely to detect failures, issue
problem reports, and track the repair or replacement of the failed equipment.
Stakeholder: Mississippi Highway Patrol
System: Mississippi Highway Patrol Dispatch
This system shall:
- receive 9-1-1 and 7-digit local access calls.
- collect available information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- forward information on emergency about emergency to other systems that
formulate and manage the emergency response.
- collect and store emergency information that is collected in the course
of emergency operations.
- · provide emergency data to operations personnel and other data
users and archives in the region.
- efficiently dispatch emergency vehicles to an incident.
- provide safe and efficient routes based on real-time traffic information.
- develop and store emergency response plans.
- manage overall coordinated response to emergencies.
- track the availability of resources and assist in the appropriate allocation
of resources for a particular emergency response.
- provide coordination between multiple allied agencies before and during
emergencies to implement emergency response plans and track progress through
the incident.
- receive mayday messages, determine an appropriate response, and either
use internal resources or contact a local agency to provide that response.
Stakeholder: Mississippi Municipalities
System: Mississippi Municipal TCC
This system shall:
- collect, store, and provide electronic access to traffic surveillance
data.
- monitor highway-rail intersection (HRI) equipment at the roadside which
manages highway traffic.
- receive additional information on approaching trains and detect and report
obstructions in the HRI.
- remotely monitor and report the status of the roadside equipment.
- generate status requests and remote control plan updates.
- receive periodic status updates in the absence of a request or asynchronously
in the event of a detected failure or other unsafe condition at the intersection.
- detect and verify incidents.
- analyze and reduce collected data from traffic surveillance equipment,
including planned incidents and hazardous conditions.
- formulate an incident response minimizing the incident potential, incident
impacts, and/or resources required for incident management.
- propose and facilitate the dispatch of emergency response and service
vehicles as well as coordinate response with all appropriate agencies.
- analyze, control, and optimize area-wide traffic flow.
- perform wide area optimization integrating control of a network signal
system with control of freeway, considering current demand as well as expected
demand with a goal of traffic adaptive control while balancing inter-jurisdictional
control issues to achieve regional solutions.
- communicate with other TMCs to receive and transmit traffic information
to other jurisdictions within the region.
- monitor and manage the traffic flow at signalized intersections.
- analyze and reduce the collected data from traffic surveillance equipment
and develop and implement control plans for signalized intersections.
- develop and implement control plans that coordinate signals at many intersections.
- disseminate incident related information to travelers, potential travelers,
and private information service providers.
- collect and store traffic information that is collected in the course
of traffic operations.
- provide traffic data to operations personnel or other data users and
archives in the region.
- monitor and diagnosis field equipment remotely to detect failures, issue
problem reports, and track the repair or replacement of the failed equipment.
Stakeholder: Municipal Fire Prevention Bureau
System: Municipal Fire Dispatch
This system shall:
- receive 9-1-1 and 7-digit local access.
- collect available information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- forward information on emergency to other systems that formulate and
manage the emergency response.
- collect and store emergency information that is collected in the course
of emergency operations.
- provide emergency data to operations personnel and other data users and
archives in the region.
- efficiently dispatch emergency vehicles to an incident.
- provide safe and efficient routes based on real-time traffic information.
- develop and store emergency response plans.
- manage overall coordinated response to emergencies.
- track the availability of resources and assist in the appropriate allocation
of resources for a particular emergency response.
- provide coordination between multiple allied agencies before and during
emergencies to implement emergency response plans and track progress through
the incident.
Stakeholder: Municipal Fire Prevention Bureau
System: Municipal Fire Vehicles
This system shall:
- provide dispatch and routing information.
- preempt signals via short range communication directly with traffic control
equipment at the roadside.
- provide safe and expedient arrival on the incident scene.
- provide a direct interface between the emergency vehicle and incident
management personnel.
Stakeholder: Municipal Police Department
System: Municipal Police Dispatch
This system shall:
- receive 9-1-1 and 7-digit local access.
- collect available information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- forward information on emergency on emergency to other systems that formulate
and manage the emergency response.
- collect and store emergency information that is collected in the course
of emergency operations.
- provide emergency data to operations personnel and other data users and
archives in the region.
- efficiently dispatch emergency vehicles to an incident.
- provide safe and efficient routes based on real-time traffic information.
- develop and store emergency response plans.
- manage overall coordinated response to emergencies.
- track the availability of resources and assist in the appropriate allocation
of resources for a particular emergency response.
- provide coordination between multiple allied agencies before and during
emergencies to implement emergency response plans and track progress through
the incident.
- receive mayday messages, determine an appropriate response, and either
use internal resources or contact a local agency to provide that response.
Stakeholder: Municipal Police Department
System: Municipal Police Vehicles
This system shall:
- provide dispatch and routing information.
- preempt signals via short range communication directly with traffic control
equipment at the roadside.
- provide safe and expedient arrival on the incident scene.
- provide a direct interface between the emergency vehicle and incident
management personnel.
Stakeholder: Shelby County Engineering
System: Shelby County TCC
This system shall:
- monitor and manage the traffic flow at signalized intersections.
- communicate with other TMCs to receive and transmit traffic information
to other jurisdictions within the region.
- monitor highway-rail intersection (HRI) equipment at the roadside which
manages highway traffic.
- receive additional information on approaching trains and detect and report
obstructions in the HRI.
- remotely monitor and report the status of the roadside equipment.
- generate status requests and remote control plan updates.
- receive periodic status updates in the absence of a request or asynchronously
in the event of a detected failure or other unsafe condition at the intersection.
- detect and verify incidents.
- analyze and reduce collected data from traffic surveillance equipment,
including planned incidents and hazardous conditions.
- formulate an incident response minimizing the incident potential, incident
impacts, and/or resources required for incident management.
- propose and facilitate the dispatch of emergency response and service
vehicles as well as coordinate response with all appropriate agencies.
- analyze, control, and optimize area-wide traffic flow.
- perform wide area optimization integrating control of a network signal
system with control of freeway, considering current demand as well as expected
demand with a goal of traffic adaptive control while balancing inter-jurisdictional
control issues to achieve regional solutions.
- analyze and reduce the collected data from traffic surveillance equipment
and develop and implement control plans for signalized intersections.
- develop and implement control plans that coordinate signals at many intersections.
- disseminate incident related information to travelers, potential travelers,
and private information service providers.
- collect and store traffic information that is collected in the course
of traffic operations.
- provide traffic data to operations personnel or other data users and
archives in the region.
- monitor and diagnosis field equipment remotely to detect failures, issue
problem reports, and track the repair or replacement of the failed equipment.
Stakeholder: Shelby County Engineering
System: Shelby County Traffic Field Equipment
This system shall:
- monitor traffic flow.
- monitor surveillance equipment and interfaces and report detected abnormalities.
- control traffic signals.
- receive vehicle signal priority requests and send requests to traffic
signal controllers accordingly.
- monitor the traffic signal equipment and interfaces and report detected
abnormalities.
- display traffic information on equipment along the roadway including
DMS and HAR.
- monitor DMS and HAR equipment and interfaces and report detected abnormalities.
- manage highway traffic at highway-rail intersections (HRIs).
- provide pre-emption of adjacent signalized intersections when activated
on notification by interfaced wayside equipment of an approaching train.
- monitor the HRI equipment and interfaces and report detected abnormalities
through the wayside equipment and traffic management center.
Stakeholder: Shelby County Fire Department
System: Shelby County Fire Dispatch
This system shall:
- receive transferred emergency calls.
- collect available information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- forward information on emergency on emergency to other systems that formulate
and manage the emergency response.
- collect and store emergency information that is collected in the course
of emergency operations.
- provide emergency data to operations personnel and other data users and
archives in the region.
- efficiently dispatch emergency vehicles to an incident.
- provide safe and efficient routes.
- develop and store emergency response plans.
- manage overall coordinated response to emergencies.
- track the availability of resources and assist in the appropriate allocation
of resources for a particular emergency response.
- provide coordination between multiple allied agencies before and during
emergencies to implement emergency response plans and track progress through
the incident.
Stakeholder: Shelby County Fire Department
System: Shelby County Fire Vehicles
This system shall:
- provide dispatch and routing information.
- provide safe and expedient arrival on the incident scene.
- provide a direct interface between the emergency vehicle and incident
management personnel.
Stakeholder: Shelby Public Works Department
System: Shelby County Public Works
This system shall:
- respond to resource request.
- send response to requesting agency.
- notify transportation and emergency agencies of planned construction
and street closures.
Stakeholder: Shelby County Sheriff Department
System: Shelby County Sheriff Dispatch
This system shall:
- receive 9-1-1 and 7-digit local access.
- transfer emergency calls to appropriate system.
- collect available information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- forward information on emergency to other systems that formulate and manage
the emergency response.
- collect and store emergency information that is collected in the course
of emergency operations.
- provide emergency data to operations personnel and other data users and
archives in the region.
- efficiently dispatch emergency vehicles to an incident.
- provide safe and efficient routes based on real-time traffic information.
- develop and store emergency response plans.
- manage overall coordinated response to emergencies.
- track the availability of resources and assist in the appropriate allocation
of resources for a particular emergency response.
- provide coordination between multiple allied agencies before and during
emergencies to implement emergency response plans and track progress through
the incident.
- receive mayday messages, determine an appropriate response, and either
use internal resources or contact a local agency to provide that response.
Stakeholder: Shelby County Sheriff Department
System: Shelby County Sheriff Vehicles
This system shall:
- provide dispatch and routing information.
- provide safe and expedient arrival on the incident scene.
- provide a direct interface between the emergency vehicle and incident
management personnel.
Stakeholder: TDOT
System: TDOT Environmental Monitoring Sensors
This system shall:
- measure environmental conditions and communicate the collected information
back to the server where it can be monitored and analyzed.
- measure temperature and, precipitation.
- measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other
measures.
Stakeholder: TDOT
System: TDOT Environmental Monitoring Server
This system shall:
- collect, analyze and store environmental information.
- issue warnings to agencies in the region when hazardous conditions are
detected.
- distribute the environmental data to operations personnel or other data
users and archives in the region.
Stakeholder: TDOT
System: TDOT Freeway Service Patrol Dispatch
This system shall:
- receive transferred emergency calls.
- collect available information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- forward information on emergency to other systems that formulate and
manage the emergency response.
- collect and store emergency information that is collected in the course
of emergency operations.
- provide emergency data to operations personnel and other data users and
archives in the region.
- efficiently dispatch emergency vehicles to an incident.
- track service patrol vehicles.
- provide safe and efficient routes based on real-time traffic information.
Stakeholder: TDOT
System: TDOT Freeway Service Patrol Vehicles
This system shall:
- provide dispatch and routing information.
- provide a direct interface between the emergency vehicle and incident
management personnel.
Stakeholder: TDOT
System: TDOT RTMC
This system shall:
- collect, store, and provide electronic access to traffic surveillance
data.
- control systems for efficient freeway management including integration
of surveillance information with freeway geometry, vehicle control such
as ramp metering, DMS, and HAR.
- interface to coordinated traffic systems for information dissemination
to the public.
- detect and verify incidents.
- analyze and reduce collected data from traffic surveillance equipment,
including planned incidents and hazardous conditions.
- formulate an incident response minimizing the incident potential, incident
impacts, and/or resources required for incident management.
- propose and facilitate the dispatch of emergency response and service
vehicles as well as coordinate response with all appropriate agencies.
- communicate with other TMCs to receive and transmit traffic information
to other jurisdictions within the region.
- assimilate current and forecast road conditions and weather information
using a combination of weather service information and an array of environmental
sensors deployed on and about the roadway.
- use information to more effectively deploy road maintenance resources,
issue general traveler advisories, and support location specific warnings
to drivers.
- disseminate incident related information to travelers, potential travelers,
and private information service providers.
- collect and store traffic information that is collected in the course
of traffic operations.
- provide traffic data to operations personnel or other data users and
archives in the region.
- monitor and diagnosis field equipment remotely to detect failures, issue
problem reports, and track the repair or replacement of the failed equipment.
Stakeholder: TDOT
System: TDOT RTMC Field Equipment
This system shall:
- monitor traffic flow.
- monitor surveillance equipment and interfaces and report detected abnormalities.
- display traffic information on equipment along the roadway including
DMS and HAR.
- monitor DMS and HAR equipment and interfaces and report detected abnormalities.
- control traffic on ramps to freeways.
Stakeholder: TDOT
System: TDOT RTMC Website Server
This system shall:
- collect, process, store, and disseminate traffic information including
latest available information on traffic and highway conditions, and current
situation information in real-time including incidents, road construction,
recommended routes, current speeds on specific routes, and current weather
situations.
- provide interactive traveler information.
Stakeholder: TDOT Headquarters Planning Office
System: TDOT Planning Traffic Archive
This system shall:
- collect and store traffic of data in a focused repository.
- perform quality checks on the incoming data, error notification, and
archive to archive coordination.
- provide advanced data analysis, summarization, and mining features that
facilitate discovery of information, patterns, and correlations in large
data sets.
- collect and archive traffic, roadway, and environmental information for
use in off-line planning, research, and analysis.
- select and format data to facilitate local, state, and federal government
data reporting requirements.
Stakeholder: Tennessee Department of Safety
System: Tennessee Commercial Vehicle Administration
This system shall:
- provide administrative capabilities including database management and
administrator-to-roadside and administrator-to-administrator interfaces.
- manage the electronic credentials database for a state, perform reconciliation
of mileage and fuel taxes, and interface with roadsides performing credential
checks.
- communicate and coordinate with other state commercial vehicle administrations.
- collect and store information on commercial vehicles.
- make data available to other data users and archives in the region.
- support the exchange of safety and credentials data among jurisdictions.
- support the exchange of safety and credentials data between agencies
(for example, an administrative center and the roadside check facilities)
within a single jurisdiction.
- collect data from multiple authoritative sources and package it into
snapshots (top-level summary and critical status information) and profiles
(detailed and historical data).
- ensure that safety criteria are available for automated roadside safety
checks.
- collect and review carrier safety data and determine the carrier safety
rating based on supplied criteria.
Stakeholder: Tennessee Department of Safety
System: Tennessee Commercial Vehicle Field Equipment
This system shall:
- document violations and forward the information to the commercial vehicle
if available and to the commercial vehicle administration for processing
as part of the normal credentials processing package.
- communicate two-way with approaching properly equipped commercial vehicles
at mainline speeds.
- read tags for automated vehicle identification and credential checking.
- appropriately screen all vehicles, not just those that are equipped.
- process data from commercial vehicle along with database information
to determine whether a pull-in message is needed.
- generate random pull-in messages with provisions for facility operators
and enforcement officials to have manual override capabilities.
- automate the roadside safety inspection process including the use of
hand held devices to rapidly inspect the vehicle and driver.
- automate the roadside safety inspection process including the support
of automated mainline speed reading of on-board safety data to rapidly screen
the vehicle and driver.
- collect, store, maintain, and provide safety data and access historical
safety data after receiving identification from vehicles at mainline speeds
or while stopped at the roadside.
- write the results of screening and summary safety inspection back onto
a tag.
- process safety data and issue pull-in messages or provide warnings to
the driver, carrier, and enforcement agencies.
- support the concept of a last clearance event record (e.g. trip ticket)
carried on the vehicle's tag.
- perform roadside high speed weigh in motion.
Stakeholder: Tennessee Emergency Management Agency
System: Tennessee EMA System
This system shall:
- assist local emergency management agencies when requested.
- develop and store emergency response plans including hazmat incidents.
- manage overall coordinated response to emergencies.
- track the availability of resources and assist in the appropriate allocation
of resources for a particular emergency response.
- provide coordination between multiple allied agencies before and during
emergencies to implement emergency response plans and track progress through
the incident.
Stakeholder: Tennessee Highway Patrol
System: Tennessee Highway Patrol Dispatch
This system shall:
- receive 9-1-1 and 7-digit local access calls.
- collect available information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- forward information on emergency about emergency to other systems that
formulate and manage the emergency response.
- collect and store emergency information that is collected in the course
of emergency operations.
- provide emergency data to operations personnel and other data users and
archives in the region.
- efficiently dispatch emergency vehicles to an incident.
- provide safe and efficient routes based on real-time traffic information.
- develop and store emergency response plans.
- manage overall coordinated response to emergencies.
- track the availability of resources and assist in the appropriate allocation
of resources for a particular emergency response.
- provide coordination between multiple allied agencies before and during
emergencies to implement emergency response plans and track progress through
the incident.
- receive mayday messages, determine an appropriate response, and either
use internal resources or contact a local agency to provide that response.
Stakeholder: Tennessee Highway Patrol
System: Tennessee Highway Patrol Vehicles
This system shall:
- provide dispatch and routing information.
- provide safe and expedient arrival on the incident scene.
- provide a direct interface between the emergency vehicle and incident
management personnel.
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