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TMC Freeway Management Equipment Package

Description:

Remotely controls ramp meters, interchange connector meters, lane control signals, mainline meters, and variable speed control systems.

 

Included in:

Bridge or Tunnel Operations TOC
Provincial Ministry of Transport TMC
Regional Traffic Management Center
State DOT TMC
US Municipal Traffic Operations Center

Functional Requirements:

1The center shall remotely control systems to manage use of the freeways, including ramp meters, mainline metering, and lane controls.
2The center shall collect operational status from ramp meters, mainline metering, and lane controls and compare against the control information sent by the center.
3The center shall collect fault data from ramp meters, mainline metering, and lane controls.
4The center shall implement control strategies, under control of center personnel, on some or all of the freeway network devices (e.g. ramp meters, mainline metering, and lane controls), based on data from sensors monitoring traffic conditions upstream, downstream, and queue data on the ramps themselves.
  
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