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Transit Center Paratransit Operations Equipment Package

Description:

 This Equipment package provides the capability to automate the planning and scheduling, allowing improvements in paratransit routes and services to develop, printing and disseminating schedules, and automatically updating customer service operator systems with the most current schedule. In addition, this Equipment package provides the capability to assign drivers to routes in a fair manner while minimizing labor and overtime services, including driver preferences and qualifications, and automatically tracking and validating the number of work hours performed by each individual driver. These capabilities shall be provided through the utilization of dispatch and fleet management software running on a workstation type processor.

 

Included in:

 County Paratransit Systems

Processes:
4.1.6Manage Transit Vehicle Operations Data
4.2.1.1Process Demand Responsive Transit Trip Request
4.2.1.2Compute Demand Responsive Transit Vehicle Availability
4.2.1.3Generate Demand Responsive Transit Schedule and Routes
4.2.1.4Confirm Demand Responsive Transit Schedule and Route
  

User Service Requirements (fully or partially addressed):

2.0PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
2.1PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
2.1.0ITS shall include a Public Transportation Management (PTM) function.
2.1.1PTM shall include an Operation of Vehicles and Facilities (OVF) function that provides computer assisted control of the operation of vehicles and their associated facilities.
2.1.1.1To enable the automation of the vehicle and facilities operations OVF shall provide the capability to gather the needed data to include, but not be limited to, the following:
2.1.1.1(a)Vehicle passenger loading by bus stop and trip segment.
2.1.1.1(b)Bus running times between time points.
2.1.1.1(e)Mileage accumulated by individual buses.
2.1.1.2OVF shall include a Command and Control (CC) capability.
2.1.1.2.1CC shall provide the capability for real-time Vehicle Command and Control (VCC).
2.1.1.2.1.1VCC shall provide the capability to compare received information with predetermined operating condition specifications and note any deviations.
2.1.1.2.4CC shall include the capability for its computational capabilities to be located either on-vehicle and/or at remote locations.
2.1.2PTM shall include a Planning and Scheduling Services (PSS) function to automate the planning and scheduling of public transit operations.
2.1.2.2The PSS shall include a Schedule Generation capability.
2.1.2.2.1The PSS Schedule Generation function shall collect that data needed for schedule generation including, but not limited to, the following:
2.1.2.2.1(c)Revenue information.
2.1.3PTM shall include a Personnel Management (PM) function to facilitate the management of both driver and maintenance personnel.
2.1.3.2PM shall include a Driver Personnel Management (DPM) function.
2.1.3.2.3In generating fair driver assignments DPM shall include factors relating to drivers preferences and qualifications to include, but not be limited to, the following:
2.1.3.2.3(b)Driver schedule preference.
2.3.0ITS shall include a Personalized Public Transit (PPT) function.
2.3.1The PPT shall include a Rider Request function.
2.3.1.1Rider Request shall provide the capability for an individual rider to request a trip by specifying the trip origin and destination, time and date.
2.3.1.2Rider Request shall provide the capability for an individual to specify a rider's special equipment or handling requirements.
2.3.1.3Rider Request shall provide the capability to notify a requester of the fact that a trip assignment has been made including the time at which the vehicle is expected at the point of departure.
2.3.2The PPT shall include a Vehicle Assignment function.
2.3.2.1Vehicle Assignment shall utilize vehicle availability, special requirements and rides requested information to determine vehicle assignments and routing.
2.3.2.10Vehicle Assignment shall provide the capability to accommodate immediate trip requests when enough capacity is available for the added rider pickup and delivery.
2.3.2.2For Random Route operations Vehicle Assignment shall assign trip origin and destination.
2.3.2.3For Flexibly Routed operations Vehicle Assignment shall control how fixed route buses are detoured.
2.3.2.4For reservation based random-route operations Vehicle Assignment shall provide the capability to plan routes that optimize vehicle schedules while considering passenger's needs.
2.3.2.5Vehicle Assignment shall provide the capability to select the best match between the rider's needs and the available vehicles.
2.3.2.6Vehicle Assignment shall provide services to both publicly owned and privately owned, publicly licensed vehicles.
2.3.2.7In order to service travelers in low-demand time (e.g., night time and weekends) Vehicle Assignment shall provide services 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
2.3.2.8Vehicle Assignment shall assign vehicle routes within 4 blocks of rider's trip origin point.
2.3.2.9Vehicle Assignment shall be a real-time system.
2.3.4The PPT shall include an Information Processing function.
2.3.4.2Information Processing shall use information to attempt to minimize the amount of time each passenger must ride.
2.3.4.3Information Processing shall provide the capability to automate the assignment of drivers to vehicles.
  
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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