New York City Sub-regional ITS Architecture

New York Sub-Regional ITS Architecture

Element Expanded Functional Requirements: Port Authority Wide TMC

Functional Area: Emergency Response Management

The center shall provide strategic emergency response capabilities provided by an Emergency Operations Center for large-scale incidents and disasters.
The center shall manage coordinated inter-agency responses to and recovery from large-scale emergencies. Such agencies include traffic management, transit, maintenance and construction management, rail operations, and other emergency management agencies.
The center shall provide the capability to implement response plans and track progress through the incident by exchanging incident information and response status with allied agencies.
The center shall develop, coordinate with other agencies, and store emergency response plans.
The center shall track the availability of resources and coordinate resource sharing with allied agency centers including traffic, maintenance, or other emergency centers.
The center shall allocate the appropriate emergency services, resources, and vehicle (s) to respond to incidents, and shall provide the capability to override the current allocation to suit the special needs of a current incident.
The center shall receive event scheduling information from Event Promoters.
The center shall support remote control of field equipment normally under control of the traffic management center including traffic signals, dynamic message signs, gates, and barriers.
The center shall provide the capability to remotely control and monitor CCTV systems normally operated by a traffic management center.
The center shall provide the capability to request transit resource availability from transit centers for use during disaster and evacuation operations.
The center shall assimilate the damage assessment of the transit, traffic, rail, maintenance, and other emergency center services and systems to create an overall transportation system status, and disseminate to each of these centers and the traveling public via traveler information providers.
The center shall provide information to the media concerning the status of an emergency response.
The center shall provide the capability for digitized map data to act as the background to the information presented to the emergency system operator.
The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to provide inputs to the management of incidents, disasters and evacuations.
The center shall collect information about the status of the recovery efforts for the infrastructure during disasters.
The center shall provide the overall status of infrastructure recovery efforts to traveler information providers and media.
The center shall provide the capability to communicate information about emergency situations to local population through the Emergency Telecommunications System.
The center shall provide the capability to identify neighborhoods and businesses that should be informed of an emergency situation based on information collected about incidents including their severity, impacted locations, and recovery schedule.
The center shall retrieve information from public health systems to increase preparedness for, and implement a response to biological, chemical, radiation, and other public health emergencies.
The center shall manage coordinated inter-agency responses to incidents at an international border.

Functional Area: Mayday Support

The center shall collect mayday messages from vehicles and drivers.
The center shall collect mayday messages from travelers via personal handheld devices.
The center shall acknowledge the request for emergency assistance, whether originated by the driver, automatically by the vehicle's safety systems, or by a traveler via a personal handheld device.
After the mayday becomes a verified incident, the center shall determine the appropriate response to the mayday message.
The center shall determine whether the mayday message indicates an emergency that requires the attention of public safety agencies, and forward mayday emergency data to the appropriate agency as necessary.
The center shall support the activation of remote controlled functions requested by a vehicle, such as requests to unlock doors.
The center shall request additional emergency details from or issue commands to the vehicle's security systems or vehicle driver if needed.
The center shall maintain a log of all mayday signals received from vehicles.
The center shall provide all mayday data to center personnel and respond to the vehicle, driver, or traveler using the portable handheld device as directed by the personnel.

Functional Area: TMC Traffic Metering

The center shall remotely control systems to manage use of the freeways, including ramp, interchange, and mainline metering.
The center shall collect operational status from ramp meters, interchange meters, and mainline meters and compare against the control information sent by the center.
The center shall collect fault data from ramp meters, interchange meters, and mainline meters.
The center shall implement control strategies, under control of center personnel, on some or all of the freeway network devices (e.g. ramp meters, interchange meters, and mainline meters), based on data from sensors monitoring traffic conditions upstream, downstream, and queue data on the approaches to the meters.

Functional Area: TMC Incident Detection

The center shall receive inputs from the Alerting and Advisory System concerning the possibility or occurrence of severe weather, terrorist activity, or other major emergency, including information provided by the Emergency Alert System.
The center shall collect and store traffic flow and image data from the field equipment to detect and verify incidents.
The center shall receive inputs concerning upcoming events that would effect the traffic network from event promoters and traveler information service providers.
The center shall exchange incident and threat information with emergency management centers as well as maintenance and construction centers; including notification of existence of incident and expected severity, location, time and nature of incident.
The center shall support requests from emergency management centers and border inspection systems to remotely control sensor and surveillance equipment located in the field.
The center shall provide road network conditions and traffic images to emergency management centers to support the detection, verification, and classification of incidents.
The center shall provide video and traffic sensor control commands to the field equipment to detect and verify incidents.

Functional Area: TMC Incident Dispatch Coordination/Communication

The center shall exchange alert information and status with emergency management centers. The information includes notification of a major emergency such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, or child abduction for distribution to the public. The information may include the alert originator, the nature of the emergency, the geographic area affected by the emergency, the effective time period, and information and instructions necessary for the public to respond to the alert. This may also identify specific information that should not be released to the public.
The center shall coordinate planning for incidents with emergency management centers - including pre-planning activities for disaster response, evacuation, and recovery operations.
The center shall support requests from emergency management centers to remotely control sensor and surveillance equipment located in the field, provide special routing for emergency vehicles, and to provide responding emergency vehicles with signal preemption.
The center shall exchange incident information with emergency management centers, maintenance and construction centers, transit centers, information service providers, and the media including description, location, traffic impact, status, expected duration, and response information.
The center shall share resources with allied agency centers to implement special traffic control measures, assist in clean up, verify an incident, etc. This may also involve coordination with maintenance centers.
The center shall receive inputs concerning upcoming events that would effect the traffic network from event promoters, traveler information service providers, media, border crossings, and rail operations centers.
The center shall provide road network conditions and traffic images to emergency management centers, maintenance and construction centers, and traveler information service providers.
The center shall monitor incident response performance and calculate incident response and clearance times.
The center shall exchange road network status assessment information with emergency management and maintenance centers including an assessment of damage sustained by the road network including location and extent of the damage, estimate of remaining capacity, required closures, alternate routes, necessary restrictions, and time frame for repair and recovery.
The center shall coordinate information and controls with other traffic management centers.
The center shall receive inputs from emergency management and transit management centers to develop an overall status of the transportation system including emergency transit schedules in effect and current status and condition of the transportation infrastructure.
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 a background for traffic incident management.
The center shall respond to requests from border agencies to implement special traffic control measures (e.g. lane assignments by vehicle type) on the approaches to a border crossing.

Functional Area: TMC Regional Traffic Management

The center shall exchange traffic information with other traffic management centers including incident information, congestion data, traffic data, signal timing plans, and real-time signal control information.
The center shall exchange traffic control information with other traffic management centers to support remote monitoring and control of traffic management devices (e.g. signs, sensors, signals, cameras, etc.).

Functional Area: TMC Reversible Lane Management

The center shall remotely control devices to detect traffic in reversible lanes, including wrong-way vehicles.
The center shall monitor the use of reversible lanes and detect wrong-way vehicles in reversible lanes using sensor and surveillance information, and the current lane control status (which direction the lane is currently operating).
The center shall remotely control automated reversible lane equipment and driver information systems (such as lane control signals) that control traffic in reversible lanes on surface streets.
The center shall remotely control automated reversible lane equipment and driver information systems (such as lane control signals) that control traffic in reversible lanes on freeways.
The center shall collect operational status for the reversible lane field equipment.
The center shall collect fault data for the reversible lane field equipment and send to the maintenance center for repair.
The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to control access and management of reversible lane facilities, including the direction of traffic flow changes during the day, especially between the peak hours and dedication of more lanes to the congestion direction during special events.

Functional Area: TMC Environmental Monitoring

The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other measures.
The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information using a combination of weather service provider information (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services), data from roadway maintenance operations, and environmental data collected from sensors deployed on and about the roadway.
The center shall provide weather and road condition information to weather service providers and center personnel.
The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing.

Functional Area: TMC Signal Control

The center shall remotely control traffic signal controllers.
The center shall accept notifications of pedestrian calls.
The center shall collect traffic signal controller operational status and compare against the control information sent by the center.
The center shall collect traffic signal controller fault data from the field.
The center shall manage (define, store and modify) control plans to coordinate signalized intersections, to be engaged at the direction of center personnel or according to a daily schedule.
The center shall implement control plans to coordinate signalized intersections based on data from sensors.
The center shall manage boundaries of the control sections used within the signal system.
The center shall maintain traffic signal coordination including synchronizing clocks throughout the system.

Functional Area: TMC Traffic Information Dissemination

The center shall remotely control dynamic messages signs for dissemination of traffic and other information to drivers.
The center shall remotely control driver information systems that communicate directly from a center to the vehicle radio (such as Highway Advisory Radios) for dissemination of traffic and other information to drivers.
The center shall collect operational status for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.).
The center shall collect fault data for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.) for repair.
The center shall retrieve locally stored traffic information, including current and forecasted traffic information, road and weather conditions, traffic incident information, information on diversions and alternate routes, closures, and special traffic restrictions (lane/shoulder use, weight restrictions, width restrictions, HOV requirements), and the definition of the road network itself.
The center shall distribute traffic data to maintenance and construction centers, transit centers, emergency management centers, and traveler information providers.
The center shall distribute traffic data to the media; the capability to provide the information in both data stream and graphical display shall be supported.
The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to control the nature of the data that is available to non-traffic operations centers and the media.

Functional Area: Transit Center Multi-Modal Coordination

The center shall coordinate schedules and services between transit agencies, traffic management, maintenance and construction operations, parking management, and other surface or air transportation modes.
The center shall share transfer cluster and transfer point information with multimodal transportation service providers, other transit agencies, and traveler information service providers. A transfer cluster is a collection of stop points, stations, or terminals where transfers can be made conveniently.
The center shall accept requests from traffic management to change routes and schedules as part of the implementation of demand management strategies.
The center shall coordinate transit services for special events, planning services for the event and managing transit services on the day of the event.
The center shall provide transit operations personnel with the capability to control and monitor transit service coordination activities.

Functional Area: Transit Center Security

The center shall monitor transit vehicle operational data to determine if the transit vehicle is off-route and assess whether a security incident is occurring.
The center shall receive reports of emergencies on-board transit vehicles entered directly be the transit vehicle operator or from a traveler through interfaces such as panic buttons or alarm switches.
The center shall support the back-office portion of functionality to authenticate transit vehicle operators.
The center shall exchange transit incident information along with other service data with other transit agencies.
The center shall receive information pertaining to a wide-area alert such as weather alerts, disaster situations, or child abductions. This information may come from Emergency Management or from other Alerting and Advisory Systems.
The center shall send wide-area alert information to travelers (on-board transit vehicles or at stations/stops) and transit vehicle operators.
The center shall coordinate the response to security incidents involving transit with other agencies including Emergency Management, other transit agencies, media, traffic management, and traveler information service providers.
The center shall receive threat information and status on the integrity of the transit infrastructure.
The center shall provide support to remotely disable (or reset the disabling of) a transit vehicle in service.

Functional Area: TMC Work Zone Traffic Management

The center shall receive work zone images from a maintenance center.
The center shall analyze work zone images for indications of a possible incident.
The center shall remotely control driver information systems (such as dynamic messages signs, highway advisory radios) to advise drivers of activity around a work zone.
The center shall collect operational status for the driver information systems equipment in work zones.
The center shall collect fault data for the driver information systems equipment in work zones for repair.
The center shall receive proposed maintenance and construction work plans, analyze the activity as a possible incident, and provide work plan feedback to the sending center.

Functional Area: Emergency Environmental Monitoring

The center shall collect current and forecast road and weather information from weather service providers (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services).
The center shall collect current road and weather information from roadway maintenance operations.
The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information to support incident management.
The center shall present the current and forecast road and weather information to the emergency system operator.

Functional Area: Transit Environmental Monitoring

The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information to more effectively manage transit operations.
The center shall collect current and forecast road and weather information from weather service providers and roadway maintenance centers.

Functional Area: Center Secure Area Surveillance

The center shall remotely monitor video images and audio surveillance data collected in secure areas including facilities (e.g. transit yards) and transportation infrastructure (e.g. bridges, tunnels, interchanges, roadway infrastructure, and transit railways or guideways). The data may be raw or pre-processed in the field.
The center shall remotely monitor video images and audio surveillance data collected in traveler secure areas, which include transit stations, transit stops, rest areas, park and ride lots, and other fixed sites along travel routes (e.g., emergency pull-off areas and travel information centers). The data may be raw or pre-processed in the field.
The center shall remotely monitor video images and audio surveillance data collected on-board transit vehicles. The data may be raw or pre-processed in the field.
The center shall exchange surveillance data with other emergency centers.
The center shall identify potential security threats based on collected security surveillance data.
The center shall verify potential security threats by correlating security surveillance data from multiple sources.
The center shall remotely control security surveillance devices in secure areas including facilities (e.g. transit yards) and transportation infrastructure (e.g. bridges, tunnels, interchanges, roadway infrastructure, and transit railways or guideways).
The center shall remotely control security surveillance devices in traveler secure areas, which include transit stations, transit stops, rest areas, park and ride lots, and other fixed sites along travel routes (e.g., emergency pull-off areas and travel information centers).
The center shall remotely control security surveillance devices on-board transit vehicles.
The center shall match traveler video images against a database from the Alerting and Advisory Systems of known images that may represent criminals and terrorists.
The center shall exchange traveler images with other emergency management centers to support traveler image matching.
The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding security surveillance data collection, processing, threat detection, and image matching.
The center shall monitor maintenance status of the security sensor field equipment.

Functional Area: Incident Command

The center shall provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
The center shall provide incident command communications with public safety, emergency management, transportation, and other allied response agency centers.
The center shall track and maintain resource information and action plans pertaining to the incident command.
The center shall share incident command information with other public safety agencies including resource deployment status, hazardous material information, rail incident information, evacuation advice as well as traffic, road, and weather conditions.
The center shall assess the status of responding emergency vehicles as part of an incident command.

Functional Area: Center Secure Area Sensor Management

The center shall remotely monitor and control security sensor data collected in secure areas including facilities (e.g. transit yards) and transportation infrastructure (e.g. bridges, tunnels, interchanges, roadway infrastructure, and transit railways or guideways). The types of security sensor data include environmental threat (e.g. chemical agent, toxic industrial chemical, biological, explosives, and radiological sensors), infrastructure condition and integrity, intrusion and motion, and object detection sensors. The data may be raw or pre-processed in the field.
The center shall remotely monitor and control security sensor data collected in traveler secure areas, which include transit stations, transit stops, rest areas, park and ride lots, and other fixed sites along travel routes (e.g., emergency pull-off areas and travel information centers). The types of security sensor data include environmental threat (e.g. chemical agent, toxic industrial chemical, biological, explosives, and radiological sensors), intrusion and motion, and object detection sensors. The data may be raw or pre-processed in the field.
The center shall remotely monitor and control security sensor data collected on-board transit vehicles. The types of security sensor data include environmental threat (e.g. chemical agent, toxic industrial chemical, biological, explosives, and radiological sensors) and object detection sensors. The data may be raw or pre-processed in the field.
The center shall exchange security sensor data with other emergency centers.
The center shall identify potential security threats based on collected security sensor data.
The center shall verify potential security threats by correlating security sensor data from multiple sources.
The center shall perform threat analysis based on correlations of security sensor and surveillance data.
The center shall exchange threat analysis data with Alerting and Advisory Systems and use that data in local threat analysis processing.
The center shall disseminate threat information to other agencies, including traffic, transit, maintenance, rail operations, and other emergency management centers.
The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding security sensor data collection, processing, threat detection, and threat analysis.
The center shall request activation of barriers and safeguards on request from center personnel.
The center shall monitor maintenance status of the security sensor field equipment.

Functional Area: Center Secure Area Alarm Support

The center shall collect silent and audible alarms received from travelers in secure areas (such as transit stops, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities).
The center shall collect silent and audible alarms received from transit vehicles, originated by the traveler or the transit vehicle operator.
After the alarm message has been received, the center shall generate an alarm acknowledgment to the sender.
After the alarm message becomes a verified incident, the center shall determine the appropriate response.
The center shall determine whether the alarm message indicates an emergency that requires the attention of public safety agencies, and forward alarm message data to the appropriate agency as necessary.
The center shall forward the alarm message to center personnel and respond to the traveler or transit vehicle operator as directed by the personnel.

Functional Area: Emergency Commercial Vehicle Response

The center shall receive emergency notification information from commercial vehicles, commercial vehicle check stations, or commercial fleet operators and present the possible incident information to the emergency system operator. This may include detection of non-permitted transport of security sensitive hazmat, hazardous cargo spills, etc.
The center shall receive details of the cargo being carried by commercial vehicles from their commercial fleet manager for incidents involving potential hazardous materials.
The center shall forward the verified emergency information to the responding agency based on the location and nature of the emergency.
The center shall provide the capability to request Fleet and Freight Management to disable a specific vehicle in their fleet.