Interface: Cities and Towns ITS Field Equipment - Cities and Towns Weather Flood Alerts
Information Flow Definitions
barrier system coordination (Planned) Selected Comm Solution
The direct flow of information between field equipment. This includes information used to configure and control barrier systems that are represented by gates, barriers and other automated or remotely controlled systems used to manage entry to roadways. Current operating status of barrier systems is also shared including operating condition and current operational state.
dynamic sign coordination (Planned) Selected Comm Solution
The direct flow of information between field equipment. This includes information used to initialize, configure, and control dynamic message signs. This flow can provide message content and delivery attributes, local message store maintenance requests, control mode commands, status queries, and all other commands and associated parameters that support local management of these devices. Current operating status of dynamic message signs is returned.
environmental sensor coordination (Planned) Selected Comm Solution
The direct flow of information between field equipment. This includes configuration and control of environmental sensors and the current road conditions (e.g., surface temperature, subsurface temperature, moisture, icing, treatment status) and surface weather conditions (e.g., air temperature, wind speed, precipitation, visibility) as measured and reported by fixed and/or mobile environmental sensors. Operational status of the sensors is also included.
lane management coordination (Planned) Selected Comm Solution
The direct flow of information between field equipment. This includes information used to configure and control dynamic lane management systems and the status of managed lanes including current operational state, violations, and logged information. This also includes lane usage information including both traditional traffic flow measures and special information associated with managed lanes such as measured passenger occupancies. It also includes the operational status of the lane management equipment.
local priority request coordination (Planned) Selected Comm Solution
The direct flow of information between field equipment. This includes notification of crossing calls from pedestrians and other vulnerable road users and requests for signal prioritization or preemption, and any other request for right–of–way at an intersection. The status of the priority request is also shared. For vulnerable road users, this includes information provided to guide and warn vulnerable road users at crossings including crossing permission status and crossing time remaining.
passive vehicle monitoring coordination (Planned) Selected Comm Solution
The direct flow of information between field equipment. This includes control commands used to control detection systems that rely on infrastructure–based identification of individual vehicles to measure travel times and other related measures by identifying the same vehicle at different points in the network. Related technologies include Bluetooth readers and license plate recognition systems. The coordination also includes sharing of time stamped identifiers that identify the vehicles that have passed through a detection zone.
rail crossing operational status (Planned) Selected Comm Solution
Status of the highway–rail grade crossing equipment including both the current state or mode of operation and the current equipment condition.
reversible lane coordination (Planned) Selected Comm Solution
The direct flow of information between field equipment. This includes control of automated reversible lane configuration and driver information systems and current reversible lane status including the operational status and mode of the reversible lane control equipment.
roadway treatment coordination (Planned) Selected Comm Solution
The direct flow of information between field equipment. This includes control data for remotely located, automated devices, that treat the road surface (e.g., de–icing applications) and the current operational status of automated roadway treatment devices.
roadway warning coordination (Planned) Selected Comm Solution
The direct flow of information between field equipment. This includes information used to configure and control roadway warning systems and the current operating status of roadway warning systems.
signal control coordination (Planned) Selected Comm Solution
The direct flow of information between field equipment. This includes configuration and control of traffic signal controllers or field masters. Configuration data and operational status of traffic signal control equipment including operating condition and current indications are returned.
track status (Planned) Selected Comm Solution
Current status of the wayside equipment and notification of an arriving train.
traffic detector coordination (Planned) Selected Comm Solution
The direct flow of information between field equipment. This includes information used to configure and control traffic detector systems such as inductive loop detectors and machine vision sensors Raw and/or processed traffic detector data is returned that allows derivation of traffic flow variables (e.g., speed, volume, and density measures) and associated information (e.g., congestion, potential incidents). This flow includes the traffic data and the operational status of the traffic detectors
traffic metering coordination (Planned) Selected Comm Solution
The direct flow of information between field equipment. This includes control commands and operating parameters for ramp meters, interchange meters, mainline meters, and other systems equipment associated with roadway metering operations. Current operational status of the traffic metering status is also provided.
variable speed limit coordination (Planned) Selected Comm Solution
The direct flow of information between field equipment. This includes information used to configure, control, and monitor variable speed limit systems including the equipment used to provide current speed limits and other information to drivers.
video surveillance coordination (Planned) Selected Comm Solution
The direct flow of information between field equipment. This includes information used to configure and control video surveillance systems and the high fidelity, real–time traffic images and associated meta data that are returned.