Petersburg Area Transit

Definition:

This stakeholder represents the owner of the Petersburg Area Transit.

Inventory Elements:

• PAT Kiosks
• PAT Operations Center
• PAT Vehicles

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Systems for Virginia CR ITS Architecture
• None defined

Emergency Management for Virginia CR ITS Architecture
• Provide real-time travel-related information at transit stops and multi-modal transfer points, including general annunciation, display of imminent arrival information, the latest available information on transit routes, schedules, transfer options, available services, fares, and real-time schedule adherence.

Freeway Management for Virginia CR ITS Architecture
• None defined

Incident Management for Virginia CR ITS Architecture
• None defined

Maintenance and Construction for Virginia CR ITS Architecture
• Coordinate schedules with other agencies and modes, including transit transfer cluster and transfer point information.

Surface Street Management for Virginia CR ITS Architecture
• None defined

Transit Services for Virginia CR ITS Architecture
• Monitor silent alarms activated by transit user or vehicle operator on a transit vehicle.
• Collect passenger data using on-board systems and send it to the transit center.
• Manage demand response transit services, including paratransit including planning and scheduling of these services, providing automated vehicle dispatch and automatic updates to customer service operator systems.
• Assign transit operators to runs in a fair manner while minimizing labor and overtime services, considering operator preferences, qualifications, accumulated work hours, and other information about each operator.
• Provide real-time travel-related information at transit stops and multi-modal transfer points, including general annunciation, display of imminent arrival information, the latest available information on transit routes, schedules, transfer options, available services, fares, and real-time schedule adherence.
• Operate and maintain transit fleet with automatic vehicle location (AVL).
• Allow a traveler to pay for transit fares, tolls, and/or parking lot charges using a travel card, to calculate the amount due and identify payment problems from a public traveler device, such as a kiosk.
• Furnish users with real-time transit schedule information.
• Collect fares on-board from a travelers card.
• Allow remote vehicle disabling of a transit vehicle.
• Monitor on-board video/audio surveillance systems, threat sensors, and object detection sensors to enhance security and safety on-board a transit vehicle.
• Operate and maintain transit fleet with automated mileage and fuel reporting and auditing.
• Collect and process transit vehicle maintenance data from on-board systems including mileage and vehicle operating conditions for use in scheduling future vehicle maintenance.
• Request signal priority through short range communication from a transit vehicle directly to traffic control equipment on the roadway (intersections, ramps, interchanges, etc.)
• Coordinate schedules with other agencies and modes, including transit transfer cluster and transfer point information.
• Maintain interface with digital map providers.
• Send collected fare data from the transit vehicle to the transit center.
• Provide paratransit and flexible-route dispatch information, including multi-stop runs, to the transit vehicle operator using on-board systems.
• Monitor transit vehicle locations via interactions with on-board systems.

Traveler Information for Virginia CR ITS Architecture
• None defined