Kingsport Regional ITS Architecture

Transit Services for Kingsport Regional ITS Architecture Roles and Responsibilities

Stakeholder	Role and Responsibility
First Tennessee Human Resource Agency	Operates demand response transit services from a central dispatch facility responsible for tracking vehicle location and status.
	Participate in evacuation planning and coordination to manage evacuation and reentry in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency situation.
	Provide transit security on transit vehicles and at transit terminals through silent alarms and surveillance systems.
	Provide transit traveler information to the agency website, local private sector traveler information services, and the Tennessee 511 Traveler Information System.
	Coordinate transit service with other regional transit providers.
Kingsport Area Transit Service	Provide transit security on transit vehicles and at transit terminals through silent alarms and surveillance systems.
	Operates fixed route and paratransit services from a central dispatch facility responsible for tracking their location and status.
	Participate in evacuation planning and coordination to manage evacuation and reentry in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency situation.
	Provide transit traveler information to the agency website, local private sector traveler information services, and the Tennessee 511 system.
	Provide transit passenger electronic fare payment on fixed route and demand response transit vehicles.
	Coordinate transit service with other regional transit providers.
	Operate on-board systems to provide next stop annunciation.
Mountain Empire Older Citizens	Provide transit traveler information to the agency website, local private sector traveler information services, and the Virginia 511 system.
	Operates demand response transit services from a central dispatch facility responsible for tracking vehicle location and status.
	Provide transit security on transit vehicles and at transit terminals through silent alarms and surveillance systems.
	Provide transit passenger electronic fare payment on transit vehicles.
	Provide transit security on transit vehicles and at transit terminals through silent alarms and surveillance systems.
	Participate in evacuation planning and coordination to manage evacuation and reentry in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency situation.