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MCM Maintenance Decision Support Equipment Package
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Description:
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Maintenance Decision Support Systems recommend courses of action based on current and forecast environmental and road conditions (filtered and fused for specific time horizons) and additional application specific information. Recommendations and dispatch instructions are generated based on this integrated information.
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Included in:
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City of Sherman Maintenance Division
City of Sherman Traffic Operations Center
County Road and Bridge
Municipal PWD
Other TxDOT District Maintenance Sections
TxDOT Paris District Area Engineers Office
TxDOT Paris District Maintenance Sections
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Functional Requirements:
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| 1 | The center shall provide the center personnel with tailored external information, including weather or road condition observations, forecasted weather information or road conditions, current usage of treatments and materials, available resources, equipment and vehicle availability, road network information, and source reliability information. |
| 2 | The center shall tailor the decision support information to include filtering (selection from a large amount of external information), error reduction ('smoothing' the information), fusion (combination of disparate information to match the decision needs), and analysis (creating the decision). |
| 3 | The center shall provide an interface to the center personnel to input control parameters for the decision support process and receive decisions or information presentation. |
| 4 | The center shall provide dispatch information to maintenance and construction vehicles based on the outputs of the decision support system, including recommended roadway treatment actions. |
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User Service Requirements (fully or partially addressed):
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| 8.0 | MAINTENANCE AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT |
| 8.1 | MAINTENANCE AND CONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS |
| 8.1.1 | Maintenance and Construction Operations shall provide a Maintenance Vehicle Fleet Management (MVFM) function to schedule and dispatch, monitor and track location, and monitor operational condition and maintenance requirements of public and contracted fleets of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles. This function includes interactions among Traffic Managers, Supervisors, Dispatchers, Field Crews, Construction Crews, Vehicle Maintenance Crews, Equipment Maintenance Crews, Weather Services Organizations, and Information Service Providers. |
| 8.1.1.2 | MVFM shall be capable of supporting route scheduling and dispatching of public and contracted fleets of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles. |
| 8.1.1.3 | MVFM shall be capable of supporting interactive data communications between dispatchers and operators of public and contracted maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles. |
| 8.1.1.6 | MVFM shall be capable of providing dispatchers and operators of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles with information regarding potential and actual roadway problems. |
| 8.1.1.6.1 | MVFM shall provide information to dispatchers and vehicle operators, including but not limited to: |
| 8.1.1.6.1(a) | Congestion |
| 8.1.1.6.1(b) | Incidents |
| 8.1.1.6.1(c) | Roadway restrictions |
| 8.1.2 | Maintenance and Construction Operations shall provide a Roadway Management (RWM) function to monitor traffic, road surface, and environmental conditions and forecast traffic and road surface conditions to support management of routine and hazardous road condition remediation and to communicate changes in conditions. This function includes interactions among Traffic Managers, Supervisors, Dispatchers, Field Crews, Construction Crews, Asset Managers, Planning Agencies, and Weather Services Organizations. |
| 8.1.2.1 | RWM shall support a number of different services, including but not limited to: |
| 8.1.2.1(a) | Winter maintenance (plowing, treating, anti-icing, de-icing, etc.) |
| 8.1.2.1(b) | Hazard removal (removing trash, animals, etc.) |
| 8.1.2.1(c) | Emergency activities (incident response, planning, alternate routing, etc.) |
| 8.1.2.1(d) | Routine maintenance activities (cleaning, cutting, etc.) |
| 8.1.2.1(e) | Repair activities |
| 8.1.2.1(f) | Other weather related activities (fog dispersion, etc.) |
| 8.1.2.4 | RWM shall determine the need for forecasted and scheduled roadway treatment. |
| 8.1.2.4.3 | RWM shall make use of information on current and forecast weather. |
| 8.1.2.4.4 | RWM shall make use of information on usage of treatments and materials. |
| 8.1.2.5 | RWM shall support management of resources to perform hazardous road condition remediation. |
| 8.1.2.5.2 | RWM shall support appropriate responses to other environmental conditions that effect travel. |
| 8.1.2.9 | RWM shall monitor, manage, and control remotely located, automated systems, that affect the roadway surface (e.g. de-icing/anti-icing applications). |
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The detailed process and user service requirement traceability information on this page was extracted from the National ITS Architecture.
Consult the National
ITS Architecture web site for more information.
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