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On-board Transit Trip Monitoring Equipment Package

 Architecture Geographic Scope

Description:

 This Equipment package provides the capabilities to support fleet management with automatic vehicle location and automated mileage and fuel reporting and auditing. This package may also record other special events resulting from communication with roadside equipment. This includes only the equipment on board the vehicle to support this function including the vehicle location devices such as GPS equipment, communication interfaces, a processor to record trip length, and the sensors/actuators/interfaces necessary to record mileage and fuel usage.

 

Included in:

 Independent School District Buses
San Angelo Street Railroad Company Fixed Route Transit Vehicles
San Angelo Street Railroad Company STS Vehicles
Thunderbird Rural Transit Vehicles

Processes:
4.1.1Process Transit Vehicle Sensor Data
4.1.3Provide Transit Vehicle Location Data
  

User Service Requirements (fully or partially addressed):

2.0PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
2.1.0ITS shall include a Public Transportation Management (PTM) function.
2.1.1PTM shall include an Operation of Vehicles and Facilities (OVF) function that provides computer assisted control of the operation of vehicles and their associated facilities.
2.1.1.1To enable the automation of the vehicle and facilities operations OVF shall provide the capability to gather the needed data to include, but not be limited to, the following:
2.1.1.1(a)Vehicle passenger loading by bus stop and trip segment.
2.1.1.1(b)Bus running times between time points.
2.1.1.1(d)Drive-line operating condition.
2.1.1.1(e)Mileage accumulated by individual buses.
2.1.1.1(f)Real-time vehicle location reports.
2.1.2PTM shall include a Planning and Scheduling Services (PSS) function to automate the planning and scheduling of public transit operations.
2.1.2.2The PSS shall include a Schedule Generation capability.
2.1.2.2.1The PSS Schedule Generation function shall collect data for schedule generation including, but not limited to, the following:
2.1.2.2.1(a)Route segment running-time.
2.1.2.2.1(b)Passenger loading at each stop.
2.1.3PTM shall include a Personnel Management (PM) function to facilitate the management of both driver and maintenance personnel.
2.1.3.1PM shall include a Maintenance Personnel Management (MPM) function.
2.1.3.1.1MPM shall automatically track vehicle miles on each bus in real-time.
  
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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