New York Sub-Regional ITS Architecture

Element Expanded Functional Requirements: Private Commercial and Fleet Vehicles

Functional Area: Basic Vehicle Reception
  1. The vehicle shall receive formatted traffic information from a center and present it to the driver.
  2. The vehicle shall receive transit information from a center and present it to the driver.
  3. The vehicle shall receive event information from a center and present it to the driver.
  4. The vehicle shall receive evacuation information from a center and present it to the driver.
  5. The vehicle shall receive wide-area alerts and present it to the driver.
  6. The vehicle shall provide data from the vehicle itself to the driver. This vehicle data may include vehicle conditions, environmental conditions, safety or position warnings.
  7. The vehicle shall prioritize safety and warning messages to supersede advisory and broadcast messages.
  8. The vehicle shall support driver input in audio or manual form.
  9. The vehicle shall present information to the driver in audible or visual forms without impairing the driver's ability to control the vehicle in a safe manner.
Functional Area: On-board Cargo Monitoring
  1. The commercial vehicle shall compute the location of the commercial vehicle and its freight equipment.
  2. The commercial vehicle shall monitor on-board systems and record measures such as weight, vehicle security status, vehicle safety status, vehicle identity, driver status, driver safety status, distance traveled, and brake condition.
  3. The commercial vehicle shall monitor information concerning the freight equipment including cargo type, HAZMAT designation (if any) for the cargo, cargo weight, the type of container in which the cargo is held, safety condition of the cargo, etc.
  4. The commercial vehicle shall forward information concerning the freight equipment on to its fleet and freight management center as well as the roadside check facility.
  5. The commercial vehicle shall send notification of a hazmat spill to appropriate emergency management center in case of an incident including the information from cargo sensors, vehicle location, and the carrier identification.
Functional Area: On-board CV Electronic Data
  1. The commercial vehicle shall receive pass/pull-in messages from the roadside check facilities and present them to the driver in either audible or visual forms.
  2. The commercial vehicle shall respond to requests to provide data accumulated on-board the vehicle to roadside check facilities for inspection including driver logs, electronic identifiers, credentials, border clearance data, and other screening data such as cargo status, hazmat identifiers, out of service status, vehicle axle weight, vehicle weight, and time.
  3. The commercial vehicle shall respond to requests to provide the identity, status and other information from the electronic cargo lock tag, if so equipped, to roadside check facilities, including border crossings.
  4. The commercial vehicle shall support an interface to a commercial vehicle driver that is also acting in the role of a commercial vehicle fleet manager to set up routes, pay necessary taxes, obtain proper credentials, and write the identifiers to the electronic tag for the driver, vehicle, and carrier.
Functional Area: On-board CV Safety and Security
  1. The commercial vehicle shall receive pass/pull-in messages from the roadside check facilities and present them to the driver in either audible or visual forms.
  2. The commercial vehicle shall respond to requests to provide on-board safety inspection data to roadside check facilities including vehicle identification, driver logs, and characteristics data for initiating safety and security checking. Results of the inspection are read back into the on-board equipment.
  3. The commercial vehicle shall monitor on-board systems pertaining to the safety and security of the vehicle, its driver, and its cargo/freight equipment; and provide the information to the driver, roadside check facilities, and commercial fleet management centers.
  4. The commercial vehicle shall provide interface with the driver to be presented with and respond to alerts, either visual or audible, concerning the safety and security of the vehicle and its cargo. Alerts and messages specific to commercial vehicles include trucks not advised on a route, trucks over 10 tons not allowed on bridge, route details, detected route deviations and warning indications detected by on-board sensors (e.g., safety) and freight equipment sensors (e.g., breach, cargo).
  5. The commercial vehicle shall provide information concerning a breach or tamper event on a commercial vehicle or its attached freight equipment to roadside check facilities and to the commercial fleet management center, the information includes identity, type of breach, location, and time.
  6. The commercial vehicle shall provide expected driver identity characteristics (e.g., PIN codes and biometric data) to roadside check facilities to support safety and security checking.
  7. The commercial vehicle shall provide information about previous attempts to disable the commercial vehicle to roadside check facilities.
  8. The commercial vehicle shall provide safety information at predetermined trigger areas using wireless communications.
Functional Area: On-board Trip Monitoring
  1. The commercial vehicle shall compute the location of the commercial vehicle and its freight equipment based on inputs from commercial vehicle measures (e.g. identity, distance traveled, etc.) and a positioning system.
  2. The commercial vehicle shall provide details of the route input from the commercial vehicle fleet management center.
  3. The commercial vehicle shall provide warnings to the driver and the commercial vehicle fleet management center when the vehicle's location has deviated from its planned route.
  4. The commercial vehicle shall maintain the driver's daily log, vehicle location, mileage, and trip activity (includes screening, inspection and border clearance event data as well as fare payments) and distribute it to the driver and to the commercial vehicle fleet management center upon request.
  5. The commercial vehicle shall provide on-board vehicle data to the commercial vehicle fleet management center upon request - includes location, credentials, driver license citations, fuel purchase data, identity details, inspection data, log data, service records, safety systems diagnostics, and freight equipment data.
  6. The commercial vehicle shall maintain the interface between the vehicle, its driver, and the commercial vehicle fleet management center for dispatch, routing, and special instructions as well as payment, and enrollment information.
Functional Area: Vehicle Mayday I/F
  1. The vehicle shall provide the capability for a driver to report an emergency and summon assistance.
  2. The vehicle shall provide the capability to accept input from a driver via a panic button or some other functionally similar form of input device provided as part of the in-vehicle equipment.
  3. The vehicle shall provide the capability to automatically identify that a collision has occurred using equipment such as collision detection sensors with an interface to mayday type equipment that would automatically detect vehicle problems and send appropriate distress signals to a center.
  4. The vehicle shall forward a request for assistance to a center containing the driver's current location, its identity and basic vehicle data relevant to its current condition, as well as any other data, such as personal medical history, vehicle orientation, etc., that may be developed in-vehicle by other systems.
  5. The vehicle shall acknowledge the driver's request for emergency assistance.
  6. The vehicle shall provide further details about the emergency to the center upon request from that function.
Functional Area: Vehicle Traffic Probe Support
  1. The vehicle shall respond to requests from short range communications equipment for identification information that can be used to collect basic probe information; the field equipment will remove identification information to ensure anonymity.
  2. The vehicle shall track its current vehicle position, speed, and heading and record snapshots of events (e.g., starts and stops, link travel times) that can be used to determine current traffic conditions.
  3. The vehicle shall record vehicle trip information (e.g., travel times, origin and destination information for vehicles that opt in) that can be used to support transportation planning.
  4. The vehicle shall transmit collected probe data to the center.
  5. The vehicle shall transmit collected probe data to field equipment located along the roadway.
  6. The vehicle shall report the number of vehicle occupants to field equipment located along the roadway.
Functional Area: Vehicle Toll/Parking Interface
  1. The vehicle shall respond to requests from toll collection equipment for credit identity, stored value card cash, etc.
  2. The vehicle shall respond to request from parking field equipment for credit identity, stored value card cash, etc.
  3. The vehicle shall provide an interface to the driver to make requests for advance payments of tolls, parking, and transit fares and present the status of electronic payment transactions.
  4. The vehicle shall provide an interface with the traveler card / payment instrument carried on-board the vehicle - to exchange identity information and payment transactions.
  5. The vehicle shall present information to the driver in audible or visual forms without impairing the driver's ability to control the vehicle in a safe manner.
Functional Area: Vehicle Location Determination
  1. The vehicle shall provide the vehicle's current location to other in-vehicle functions.
  2. The vehicle shall calculate the location from one or more data sources including positioning systems such as GPS, sensors that track vehicle movement, and maps used to determine the likely vehicle route.