The following Functional Areas are associated with the "In Vehicle Equipment" element.   Each functional area includes a brief description and a bulleted list of detailed functions.   The common icon provides a link to other systems in the region that include the same functional area.

 

Basic Vehicle Reception

Provides drivers basic transportation information including formatted traffic advisories, event, and other traveler information as well as broadcast alerts.

• The vehicle shall receive formatted traffic information from a center and present it to the driver.

Interactive Vehicle Reception

Provides drivers with traffic, transit, yellow pages, event, vehicle condition, and vehicle signage information upon request.

• The vehicle shall receive formatted traffic and travel advisories from a center and present them to the driver upon request.
• The transit vehicle shall receive formatted traffic and travel advisories from a center and present them to the transit vehicle traveler upon request.
• The vehicle shall receive event information from a center and present it to the driver upon request.

Vehicle Mayday I/F

In-vehicle capability for drivers or collision detection sensors onboard a vehicle to report an emergency and summon assistance.

• The vehicle shall provide the capability for a driver to report an emergency and summon assistance.
• The vehicle shall provide the capability to accept input from a driver via a panic button or some other functionally similar form of input device provided as part of the in-vehicle equipment.
• The vehicle shall provide the capability to automatically identify that a collision has occurred using equipment such as collision detection sensors with an interface to mayday type equipment that would automatically detect vehicle problems and send appropriate distress signals to a center.
• The vehicle shall forward a request for assistance to a center containing the driver's current location, its identity and basic vehicle data relevant to its current condition, as well as any other data, such as personal medical history, vehicle orientation, etc., that may be developed in-vehicle by other systems.
• The vehicle shall acknowledge the driver's request for emergency assistance.
• The vehicle shall provide further details about the emergency to the center upon request from that function.