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MCM Environmental Information Collection Equipment Package

Description:

Remotely controls environmental sensors and assimilates collected data with other current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information from weather service providers and transportation operations.

 

Included in:

MOT Maintenance Services
Provincial Ministry of Transport TMC
State DOT TMC
State Maintenance Operations

Functional Requirements:

1The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other measures.
2The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
3The center shall remotely control environmental sensors on-board maintenance and construction vehicles that measure road and weather conditions including air and surface temperatures, wind speed, humidity, precipitation, visibility and other measures.
4The 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 traffic, emergency, and transit management, traveler information providers, and environmental data collected from sensors deployed on and about the roadway as well as the fleet of maintenance and construction vehicles.
5The center shall provide weather and road condition information to weather service providers and center personnel.
6The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing.
7The center shall collect operational status for the roadside and vehicle-based environmental sensor equipment.
8The center shall collect fault data for the roadside and vehicle-based environmental sensor equipment for repair.
  
The detailed functional area and functional requirement traceability information on this page was extracted from the National ITS Architecture. Consult the National ITS Architecture web site for more information.
Last Update: 01-29-2006