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City of Newport News TMC

Status:

Existing

Definition:

City of Newport News TMC is a nerve center of an integrated system of advanced technologies including computer software, traffic cameras, centralized signal system for the City of Newport News. From the City of Newport News TMC, the operators monitor and manage traffic as well as recognize and respond to incidents.

Stakeholder:

City of Newport News Engineering Department

Systems Interconnected
with the City of Newport News TMC


Architecture Flow Diagrams
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Architecture Flows
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National ITS Architecture Subsystems
mapped to the City of Newport News TMC:

National ITS Architecture Services
associated with City of Newport News TMC:

National ITS Architecture Functional Requirements
associated with City of Newport News TMC:

TMC Signal Control
  1. The center shall remotely control traffic signal controllers.
  2. The center shall accept notifications of right-of-way requests from pedestrians.
  3. The center shall collect traffic signal controller operational status and compare against the control information sent by the center.
  4. The center shall collect traffic signal controller fault data from the field.
  5. The center shall implement control plans to coordinate signalized intersections, under control of center personnel, based on data from sensors and surveillance monitoring traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, the passage of commercial vehicles with unusual loads, equipment faults, pedestrian crossings, etc.
TMC Traffic Information Dissemination
  1. The center shall retrieve locally stored traffic information, including current and forecasted traffic information, road and weather conditions, traffic incident information, information on diversions and alternate routes, closures, and special traffic restrictions (lane/shoulder use, weight restrictions, width restrictions, HOV requirements), and the definition of the road network itself.
  2. The center shall distribute traffic data to maintenance and construction centers, transit centers, emergency management centers, and traveler information providers.
TMC Regional Traffic Management
  1. The center shall exchange traffic information with other traffic management centers including incident information, congestion data, traffic data, signal timing plans, and real-time signal control information.
TMC Incident Detection
  1. The center shall receive inputs from the Alerting and Advisory System concerning the possibility or occurrence of severe weather, terrorist activity, or other major emergency, including information provided by the Emergency Alert System.
  2. The center shall collect and store traffic flow and image data from the field equipment to detect and verify incidents.
  3. The center shall receive inputs concerning upcoming events that would effect the traffic network from event promoters, traveler information service providers, border crossings, and intermodal freight depots.
  4. The center shall exchange incident and threat information with emergency management centers as well as maintenance and construction centers; including notification of existence of incident and expected severity, location, time and nature of incident.
  5. The center shall provide road network conditions and traffic images to emergency management centers to support the detection, verification, and classification of incidents.
  6. The center shall provide video and traffic sensor control commands to the field equipment to detect and verify incidents.
Traffic Data Collection
  1. The center shall collect traffic management data such as operational data, event logs, etc.
  2. The center shall assign quality control metrics and meta-data to be stored along with the data. Meta-data may include attributes that describe the source and quality of the data and the conditions surrounding the collection of the data.
  3. The center shall receive and respond to requests from ITS Archives for either a catalog of the traffic data or for the data itself.
  4. The center shall be able to produce sample products of the data available.