KIPDA Regional ITS Architecture

Project Details: TARC Passenger Counters


PROJECT OVERVIEW

Project Name:

Project Details: TARC Passenger Counters

Description:

This project will place additional passenger counters within the TARC system.

Status:

Planned

Timeframe:

Long

Geographic Scope:

TARC System

Service Scope

Stakeholders:

TARC

Service Packages:

APTS10-1 - Transit Passenger Counting - TARC

Project Inventory:

TARC Fixed Route Dispatch Center
TARC Fixed Route Vehicle

FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

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On-board Passenger Counting

  • The transit vehicle shall send the collected passenger count information to the transit center.
  • The passenger counts shall be timestamped so that ridership can be measured by time of day and day of week.
  • The passenger counts shall be related to location to support association of passenger counts with routes, route segments, or bus stops.
  • The transit vehicle shall count passengers boarding and alighting.

Transit Center Passenger Counting

  • The center shall make the compiled ridership data available to the system operator and other applications.
  • The center shall calculate transit ridership data by route, route segment, transit stop, time of day, and day of week based on the collected passenger count information.
  • The center shall collect passenger count information from each transit vehicle.

INTERFACES

Source Architecture Flows Destination
TARC Fixed Route Vehicle transit vehicle loading data TARC Fixed Route Dispatch Center

ITS STANDARDS

SDODocument IDTitleType
APTA APTA TCIP-S-001 3.0.4 Standard for Transit Communications Interface Profiles Message/Data

OPERATIONAL CONCEPTS

Stakeholder Roles and Responsibilities
TARC
Count passengers on TARC vehicles.