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Smart Travel Lab

Status:

Existing

Definition:

The Smart Travel Lab at UVA collects data and provides a repository for archived data to the ITS systems in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Smart Travel Lab also performs research involving ITS technologies.

Stakeholder:

University of Virginia

Systems Interconnected
with the Smart Travel Lab


Architecture Flow Diagrams
which include Smart Travel Lab:

Architecture Flows
to/from the Smart Travel Lab:

Smart Travel Lab flows into icon NRO Thornburg Center Smart Travel Lab flows into icon NVTC Center Smart Travel Lab flows into icon Research and Data Collection Centers Smart Travel Lab flows into icon VDOT Arlington SSP Vehicles Smart Travel Lab flows into icon VDOT NRO MPSTOC - Signal Center Smart Travel Lab flows into icon VDOT NRO MPSTOC - TOC Smart Travel Lab flows into icon VDOT NRO TFO NRO Thornburg Centerflows into iconSmart Travel Lab NVTC Centerflows into iconSmart Travel Lab Research and Data Collection Centersflows into iconSmart Travel Lab VDOT Arlington SSP Vehiclesflows into iconSmart Travel Lab VDOT NRO MPSTOC - Signal Centerflows into iconSmart Travel Lab VDOT NRO MPSTOC - TOCflows into iconSmart Travel Lab VDOT NRO TFOflows into iconSmart Travel Lab

National ITS Architecture Subsystems
mapped to the Smart Travel Lab:

National ITS Architecture Services
associated with Smart Travel Lab:

National ITS Architecture Functional Requirements
associated with Smart Travel Lab:

ITS Data Repository
  1. The center shall collect data to be archived from one or more data sources.
  2. The center shall collect data catalogs from one or more data sources. A catalog describes the data contained in the collection of archived data and may include descriptions of the schema or structure of the data, a description of the contents of the data; e.g., time range of entries, number of entries; or a sample of the data (e. g. a thumbnail).
  3. The center shall store the archived data in a focused repository that is suited to a particular set of ITS data users.
  4. The center shall include capabilities for performing quality checks on the incoming archived data.
  5. The center shall include capabilities for error notification on the incoming archived data.
  6. The center shall include capabilities for archive to archive coordination.
  7. The center shall support a broad range of archived data management implementations, ranging from simple data marts that collect a focused set of data and serve a particular user community to large-scale data warehouses that collect, integrate, and summarize transportation data from multiple sources and serve a broad array of users within a region.
  8. The center shall perform quality checks on received data.
  9. The center shall provide the capability to execute methods on the incoming data such as cleansing, summarizations, aggregations, or transformations applied to the data before it is stored in the archive.
Government Reporting Systems Support
  1. The center shall provide data from an ITS archive to federal, state, or local government reporting systems.
  2. The center shall provide the capability to select data from an ITS archive for use in government reports.
  3. The center shall provide the capability to format data from an ITS archive suitable for input into government reports.
  4. The center shall provide the applicable meta-data for any ITS archived data to satisfy government reporting system requests. Meta-data may include attributes that describe the source and quality of the data and the conditions surrounding the collection of the data.