New York Sub-Regional ITS Architecture

Element Expanded Functional Requirements: MTA.INFO Website

Functional Area: Infrastructure Provided Trip Planning
  1. The center shall provide the capability to provide specific pre-trip and enroute directions to travelers (and drivers), including costs, arrival times, and transfer points.
  2. The center shall include bicycle routes, walkways, skyways, and multi-use trails in the pre-trip and enroute directions it provides to travelers.
  3. The center shall support on-line route guidance for travelers using personal devices (such as PDAs).
  4. The center shall support on-line route guidance for drivers in vehicles.
  5. The center shall support on-line route guidance for specialty vehicles, such as commercial vehicles.
  6. The center shall generate route plans based on current and/or predicted conditions of the road network, scheduled maintenance and construction work activities, and work zone activities.
  7. The center shall generate route plans based on transit services, including fares, schedules, and requirements for travelers with special needs.
  8. The center shall generate route plans based on current asset restrictions, such as height and weight restrictions on tunnels or bridges.
  9. The center shall generate route plans based on current or forecasted weather.
  10. The center shall generate route plans based on ferry, rail, air, or other multimodal transportation data.
  11. The center shall exchange route segment information with other centers outside the area served by the local center.
  12. The center shall generate trips based on the use of more than one mode of transport.
  13. The center shall use the preferences and constraints specified by the traveler in the trip request to select the most appropriate mode of transport.
  14. The center shall provide the capability for the traveler to confirm the proposed trip plan.
  15. The center shall log route plans, particularly for special vehicles such as those containing hazardous materials, over-sized vehicles, or motorcades, with a traffic center.
  16. 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 to determine vehicle and non-vehicle routes, trip planning, and on-line vehicle guidance.
  17. The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to control route calculation parameters.
Functional Area: Transit Center Information Services
  1. The center shall provide travelers using public transportation with traffic and advisory information upon request. Such information may include transit routes, schedules, transfer options, fares, real-time schedule adherence, current incidents, weather conditions, and special events.
  2. The center shall provide transit information to the media including details of deviations from schedule of regular transit services.
  3. The center shall exchange transit schedules, real-time arrival information, fare schedules, and general transit service information with other transit organizations to support transit traveler information systems.
  4. The center shall provide transit service information to traveler information service providers including routes, schedules, schedule adherence, and fare information as well as transit service information during evacuation.
  5. The center shall enable yellow pages (including non-motorized transportation) information to be output to the traveler.
  6. The center shall broadcast transit advisory data, including alerts and advisories pertaining to major emergencies, or man made disasters.
Functional Area: Transit Vehicle Operator Assignment
  1. The center shall maintain records of a transit vehicle operator's performance. This may be done utilizing standardized performance evaluation criteria set forth by governmental regulations and transit operating company policies, assessing the transit vehicle operator's driving history, and assessing comments from the transit vehicle operator's supervisor(s) as well as noting any moving violations or accidents, supervisor comments, government regulations, and company policies.
  2. The center shall assess the transit vehicle operator's availability based on previous work assignments, accumulated hours, plus health and vacation commitments.
  3. The center shall assign transit vehicle operators to transit schedules based on their eligibility, route preferences, seniority, and transit vehicle availability.
  4. The center shall provide an interface through which the transit vehicle operator information can be maintained - either from the transit vehicle operator, center personnel, or other functions.
  5. The center shall generate supplemental vehicle operator assignments as required due to change events that occur during the operating day.
Functional Area: Traveler Telephone Information
  1. The center shall provide the capability to process voice-formatted requests for traveler information from a traveler telephone information system, and return the information in the requested format.
  2. The center shall provide the capability to process dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF)-based requests (touch-tone) for traveler information from a traveler telephone information system.
  3. The center shall provide the capability to process traveler information requests from a traveler telephone information system.
  4. The center shall provide information on traffic conditions in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  5. The center shall provide work zone and roadway maintenance information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  6. The center shall provide roadway environment conditions information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  7. The center shall provide weather and event information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  8. The center shall provide transit service information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  9. The center shall provide yellow pages services information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  10. The center shall provide current ferry and rail schedule and airport status information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  11. The center shall provide the capability to support both specific caller requests as well as bulk upload of regional traveler information.
  12. The center shall receive and forward region-specific wide-area alert and advisory information to the traveler telephone information system, including major emergencies such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, child abductions, severe weather watches and warnings, military activities, and law enforcement warnings.
Functional Area: ISP Traveler Data Collection
  1. The center shall collect, process, and store traffic and highway condition information, including incident information, detours and road closures, event information, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes.
  2. The center shall collect, process, and store maintenance and construction information, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities.
  3. The center shall collect, process, and store transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information.
  4. The center shall collect, process, and store parking information, including location, availability, and fees.
  5. The center shall collect, process, and store toll fee information.
  6. The center shall collect, process, and store current and forecast road conditions and surface weather conditions.
  7. The center shall collect, process, and store event information.
  8. The center shall collect, process, and store air quality information.
  9. The center shall collect, process, and store border crossing information.
Functional Area: ISP Traveler Information Alerts
  1. The center shall accept traveler profiles that establish recurring trip characteristics including route, mode, and timeframe information.
  2. The center shall accept traveler profiles that define alert thresholds that establish the severity and types of alerts that are provided to each traveler.
  3. The center shall disseminate personalized traffic alerts reporting congestion, incidents, delays, detours and road closures that may impact a current or planned trip.
  4. The center shall disseminate personalized transit alerts reporting transit delays and service interruptions.
  5. The center shall disseminate personalized parking alerts reporting parking availability and closures.
  6. The center shall disseminate personalized road weather alerts reporting adverse road and weather conditions.
  7. The center shall disseminate personalized multimodal transportation service alerts including ferry and air travel delays, port closures, and service interruptions.
  8. The center shall disseminate personalized event alerts reporting special event impacts on the transportation system.
  9. The center shall provide an operator interface that supports monitoring and management of subscribers and the content and format of alert messages.