New York Sub-Regional ITS Architecture

Element Expanded Functional Requirements: Private Commercial Vehicle and Fleet Dispatch

Functional Area: Fleet Administration
  1. The center shall send data concerning enrollment of commercial vehicles for electronic clearance and tax filing to the appropriate commercial vehicle administration center. The data may include driver and vehicle identification, safety inspections/status, carrier credentials, related citations, and accident information.
  2. The center shall obtain and manage commercial vehicle routes for its fleet of vehicles, taking into account route restrictions, advance payment of tolls, HAZMAT restrictions, current traffic and road conditions, and incident information provided by traveler information systems.
  3. 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 the background for commercial vehicle fleet administration - includes commercial vehicle specific data such as route or HAZMAT restrictions.
  4. The center shall monitor the locations and progress of commercial vehicles against their planned routes and raise appropriate warnings based on route monitoring parameters.
  5. The center shall coordinate the response to security incidents and the sharing of security threat information involving commercial vehicles with other agencies including emergency management centers and alerting/advisory systems.
  6. The center shall access driver records from the appropriate commercial vehicle administration center and use the records to support pre-hiring checks for potential drivers and monitor the performance of each driver who is hired.
  7. The center shall monitor geographic trigger areas for wireless roadside inspection programs and distribute the trigger areas to their commercial vehicles.
Functional Area: Fleet Credentials and Taxes Management and Reporting
  1. The center shall send data concerning enrollment and purchase of commercial vehicles credentials and tax filing to the appropriate commercial vehicle administration center.
  2. The center shall receive compliance review reports from the appropriate commercial vehicle administration centers concerning the operations of the commercial vehicle fleet, including concomitant out-of-service notifications, and carrier warnings/notifications.
  3. The center shall provide audit data to the appropriate commercial vehicle administration center to support tax audits.
  4. The center shall support an interface with a commercial vehicle driver that is acting in the role of a commercial vehicle fleet manager for the purposes of obtaining credentials, obtaining permits, filing taxes and audit data, and receiving compliance reports and status information.
Functional Area: Fleet HAZMAT Management
  1. The center shall track the routing and cargo information, including the manifest data plus the chemical characteristics of a hazardous materials (HAZMAT) load being carried by its fleet of commercial vehicles.
  2. The center shall provide information concerning commercial vehicles carrying hazardous materials (HAZMAT) upon request from an emergency management center. The information includes the nature of the cargo being carried, identity of the vehicle and unloading instructions.
Functional Area: Commercial Vehicle and Freight Security
  1. The center shall monitor the identity of a commercial vehicle driver and compare it with the planned driver, generating warnings if the tracked identities do not match the planned assignments.
  2. The center shall monitor the freight equipment identity with the planned vehicle assignment, generating a warning if the tracked identities do not match the planned assignments.
  3. The center shall receive data from commercial vehicles and freight equipment concerning potential critical security problem(s), including a breach or tamper event with information such as time, date, location, identities, and nature of the problem.
  4. The center shall coordinate the response to security incidents and the sharing of security threat information involving commercial vehicles and freight equipment with other agencies including emergency management centers, intermodal freight shippers, and alerting/advisory systems.