Kauai Regional ITS Architecture Element Expanded Functional Requirements: Kauai Bus Fixed Route Dispatch Functional Area: Transit Center Fixed-Route Operations The center shall generate transit routes and schedules based on such factors as parameters input by the system operator, road network conditions, incident information, operational data on current routes and schedules, and digitized map data. The center shall provide the interface to the system operator to control the generation of new routes and schedules (transit services) including the ability to review and update the parameters used by the routes and schedules generation processes and to initiate these processes The center shall be able to generate special routes and schedules to support an incident, disaster, evacuation, or other emergency. The center shall dispatch fixed route or flexible route transit vehicles The center shall collect transit operational data for use in the generation of routes and schedules. The center shall provide instructions or corrective actions to the transit vehicle operators based upon operational needs. The center shall manage large deviations of individual transit vehicles, deviations in rural areas, and deviations of large numbers of vehicles. The center shall generate the necessary corrective actions which may involve more than the vehicles concerned and more far reaching action, such as, the introduction of extra vehicles, wide area signal priority by traffic management, the premature termination of some services, etc. The center shall exchange information with Maintenance and Construction Operations concerning work zones, roadway conditions, asset restrictions, work plans, etc. The center shall disseminate up-to-date schedules and route information to other centers for fixed and flexible route services. The center shall provide an interface to the archive data repository to enable the operator to retrieve historical operating data for use in planning transit routes and schedules. Functional Area: Transit Center Information Services 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. The center shall provide transit information to the media including details of deviations from schedule of regular transit services. 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. 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. The center shall enable yellow pages (including non-motorized transportation) information to be output to the traveler. The center shall broadcast transit advisory data, including alerts and advisories pertaining to major emergencies, or man made disasters. 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: Transit Center Vehicle Tracking The center shall monitor the locations of all transit vehicles within its network. The center shall determine adherence of transit vehicles to their assigned schedule. 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 transit tracking and dispatch. The center shall provide transit operational data to traveler information service providers. The center shall provide collected transit probe data to traffic management centers and traveler information service providers for use in measuring current traffic conditions. Functional Area: Transit Data Collection The center shall collect transit management data such as transit fares and passenger use, transit services, paratransit operations, transit vehicle maintenance data, etc. The center shall assign quality control metrics and meta-data to be stored along with the data. Meta-data may include attributes that describe the source and quality of the data and the conditions surrounding the collection of the data. The center shall receive and respond to requests from ITS Archives for either a catalog of the transit data or for the data itself. The center shall be able to produce sample products of the data available. 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. The center shall remotely monitor video images and audio surveillance data collected in secure areas including facilities and transportation infrastructure. The data may be raw or pre-processed in the field. Functional Area: Transit Evacuation Support The center shall manage the use of transit resources to support evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency. The center shall coordinate regional evacuation plans with Emergency Management - identifying the transit role in an evacuation and the transit resources that would be used. The center shall coordinate the use of transit and school bus fleets during an evacuation, supporting evacuation of those with special needs and the general population. The center shall adjust and update transit service and fare schedules and provide that information to other agencies as they coordinate evacuations. Functional Area: Transit Center Passenger Counting The center shall collect passenger count information from each transit vehicle. The center shall calculate transit ridership data by route, route segment, transit stop, time of day, and day of week based on the collected passenger count information. The center shall make the compiled ridership data available to the system operator and other applications. Functional Area: Transit Center Signal Priority The center shall analyze transit vehicle schedule performance to determine the need for priority along certain routes or at certain intersections. The center shall send requests for priority along routes or at intersections to traffic management. The center shall define business rules that govern use of transit vehicle signal priority, communicate these rules to the transit vehicle, and monitor transit vehicle requests for priority at signalized intersections. The center shall provide transit operations personnel with the capability to control and monitor transit signal priority operations.

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