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Southern California Traveler Information Systems Functional Areas (Inland Empire)

 

The following Functional Areas are associated with the "Southern California Traveler Information Systems" 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.

 

Interactive Infrastructure Information

Collection, processing, storage, and personalized dissemination of traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, multimodal, event, and weather information to traveler interface systems and vehicles, upon request.

  • The center shall collect, process, store, and disseminate customized traffic and highway condition information to travelers, including incident information, detours and road closures, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes upon request.
  • The center shall collect, process, store, and disseminate customized maintenance and construction information to travelers, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities upon request.
  • The center shall collect, process, store, and disseminate customized transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information to travelers upon request.
  • The center shall collect, process, store, and disseminate customized parking information to travelers, including location, availability, and fees upon request.
  • The center shall collect, process, store, and disseminate customized toll fee information to travelers upon request.
  • The center shall collect, process, store, and disseminate customized weather information to travelers upon request.
  • The center shall collect, process, store, and disseminate customized multimodal transportation service information (for example, from ferry and airline operators), including transfer points and other information, to travelers upon request.
  • The center shall collect, process, store, and disseminate customized event information to travelers upon request.
  • The center shall collect, process, store, and disseminate customized air quality information to travelers upon request.
  • The center shall provide all traveler information based on the traveler's current location or a specific location identified by the traveler, and filter or customize the provided information accordingly.
  • The center shall accept traveler profiles for determining the type of personalized data to send to the traveler.
  • The center shall manage payment for services, such as tolls, transit fares, parking lot charges, map updates, and advanced payment for tolls, and provide transaction success or failure details.
  • The center shall support requests for traveler information and advanced payment for traveler services from commercial fleet operators.
  • The center shall provide the capability to exchange information with another traveler information service provider current or predicted data for road links that are outside the area served by the local supplier.
  • The center shall manage updates of digitized map data and provide updates to traveler interface systems upon request.
  • The center shall provide the capability to support requests from the media for traffic and incident data.
  • The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to control the type and update frequency of traveler information.

ISP Emergency Traveler Information

Collection and distribution of emergency information to the traveler public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.

  • The center shall collect and provide to the traveler interface systems emergency evacuation information, including evacuation zones, shelter information, available transportation modes, road closures and detours, changes to transit services, and traffic and road conditions at the origin, destination, and along the evacuation routes.
  • The center shall provide evacuation information to shelter providers.
  • The center shall collect and provide wide-area alert information to the traveler interface system with region-specific data, including major emergencies such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, child abductions, severe weather watches and warnings, military activities, and law enforcement warnings.
  • The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to control the type and update frequency of emergency and wide-area alert information distributed to travelers.

Traveler Telephone Information

Collection and distribution of traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.

  • The center shall provide the capability to process voice-formatted requests for traveler information from a traveler telephone information system, and return the information in the requested format.
  • The center shall provide the capability to process dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF)-based requests (touch-tone) for traveler information from a traveler telephone information system.
  • The center shall provide the capability to process traveler information requests from a traveler telephone information system.
  • The center shall collect and provide information on traffic conditions in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  • The center shall collect and provide work zone and roadway maintenance information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  • The center shall collect and provide roadway environment conditions information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  • The center shall collect and provide weather and event information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  • The center shall collect and provide transit service information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  • The center shall collect and provide yellow pages services information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  • The center shall collect and provide current ferry and rail schedule and airport status information in the requested voice format and for the requested location.
  • The center shall provide the capability to support both specific caller requests as well as bulk upload of regional traveler information.
  • The center shall receive and forward region-specific wide-area alert and advisory information to the traveler telephone information system, including major emergencies such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, child abductions, severe weather watches and warnings, military activities, and law enforcement warnings.

For more information regarding this project, contact Bill Tournay at Bill_Tournay@dot.ca.gov

For more information regarding this project's web site, contact Melissa Hewitt at Melissa.Hewitt@kimley-horn.com