Hampton Roads Transit (HRT)

Definition:

This stakeholder represent the owner of the Hampton Roads Transit (HRT) system.

Stakeholder Groups Associated With:

• TIDE

Inventory Elements:

• HRT Operations Centers
• HRT Smartcard
• HRT Transit Vehicles
• Regional Fare Payment Clearinghouse

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Systems for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
• None defined

Electronic Toll Collection for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
• None defined

Emergency Management for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
• None defined

Freeway Management for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
• None defined

Incident Management for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
• None defined

Maintenance and Construction for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
• None defined

Parking Management for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
• None defined

Surface Street Management for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
• None defined

Transit Services for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
• Operate and maintain transit fleet with automated mileage and fuel reporting and auditing.
• Maintain interface with digital map providers.
• Generate requests for transit priority on routes and at certain intersections.
• Monitor transit service schedule performance.
• Collect transit vehicle loading data and make it available to the transit center.
• 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.
• 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.
• Receive and process transit vehicle loading data using two-way communications from equipped transit vehicles.
• Operate and maintain transit fleet with automatic vehicle location (AVL).
• Collect passenger data using on-board systems and send it to the transit center.
• Manage fare collection from the transit center - includes setting and distributing fare information, central processing of fares for transit as well as other ITS services, links to financial institutions and enforcement agencies.
• Monitor transit vehicle locations via interactions with on-board systems.
• Request signal priority through short range communication from a transit vehicle directly to traffic control equipment on the roadway (intersections, ramps, interchanges, etc.)
• Collect data for schedule generation and adjustment on-board a transit vehicle.
• Allow communication between the vehicle, operator, and center.
• Collect fares on-board from a travelers card.
• Send collected fare data from the transit vehicle to the transit center.
• Manage fixed route transit operations including planning, scheduling, and dispatching associated with fixed and flexible route transit services, updating customer service operator systems, and providing current vehicle schedule adherence and optimum scenarios for schedule adjustment.
• Furnish users with real-time transit schedule information.
• Provide paratransit and flexible-route dispatch information, including multi-stop runs, to the transit vehicle operator using on-board systems.

Traveler Information for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
• Disseminate traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, event, and weather information to travelers.