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NRO Local Transit Centers

Status:

Existing

Definition:

Basic transit service and paratransit service are provided by the following agencies in Northern Virginia: PRTC, City of Alexandria (DASH), City of Fairfax (CUE), Fairfax County - (Fairfax Connector Transit, FASTRAN), Arlington County (ART and STAR), Loudoun (LCT and VRTA), City of Falls Church Bus (GEORGE), OMNILINK (Eastern Prince William County and the Manassas areas) and OMNIRIDE (locations throughout Prince William County along the I-95 corridor and Manassas and Gainesville areas along the I-66 corridor to destinations that include the Vienna, West Falls Church and Franconia/Springfield Metrorail Stations, the Pentagon, Crystal City, Rosslyn/Ballston, downtown Washington, D.C., Capitol Hill, and the Washington Navy Yard). It also includes Fredericksburg Regional Transit (FRED) operating in the counties of Stafford, Spotsylvania, Caroline, and the City of Fredericksburg providing fixed route services throughout the day with hourly service to and from the commuter rail station.

Stakeholder:

NRO Local Transit Agencies

Systems Interconnected
with the NRO Local Transit Centers


Architecture Flow Diagrams
which include NRO Local Transit Centers:

Architecture Flows
to/from the NRO Local Transit Centers:

NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon Fairfax County Public Safety Communications Center - MPSTOC NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon Media Outlets NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon Northern Region Local TOCs NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon NOVA District Local Transit Vehicles NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon NRO Local Public Safety Centers NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon Regional SmarTrip Fare Payment Clearinghouse NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon Regional Transit Clearinghouse NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon Shelter Centers NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon Travel Information Displays NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon VDOT NOVA CSC NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon VDOT NOVA District Construction Management NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon VDOT NOVA District Maintenance NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon VDOT NRO MPSTOC - Signal Center NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon VDOT NRO MPSTOC - Signal Center Field Equipment NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon VDOT NRO MPSTOC - TOC NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon VDOT NRO TFO NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon Virginia Statewide Information Clearinghouse NRO Local Transit Centers flows into icon WMATA Operations Centers Fairfax County Public Safety Communications Center - MPSTOCflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers Media Outletsflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers National Weather Serviceflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers Northern Region Local TOCsflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers NOVA District Local Transit Vehiclesflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers NRO Local Public Safety Centersflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers Regional SmarTrip Fare Payment Clearinghouseflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers Regional Transit Clearinghouseflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers Shelter Centersflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers Travel Information Displaysflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers VDOT NOVA District Construction Managementflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers VDOT NOVA District Maintenanceflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers VDOT NRO MPSTOC - Signal Centerflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers VDOT NRO MPSTOC - Signal Center Field Equipmentflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers VDOT NRO MPSTOC - TOCflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers VDOT NRO TFOflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers Virginia Statewide Information Clearinghouseflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers WMATA Operations Centersflows into iconNRO Local Transit Centers

National ITS Architecture Subsystems
mapped to the NRO Local Transit Centers:

National ITS Architecture Services
associated with NRO Local Transit Centers:

National ITS Architecture Functional Requirements
associated with NRO Local Transit Centers:

Transit Center Fixed-Route Operations
  1. The center shall generate transit routes and schedules based on such factors as parameters input by the system operator, road network conditions, incident information, operational data on current routes and schedules, and digitized map data.
  2. The center shall provide the interface to the system operator to control the generation of new routes and schedules (transit services) including the ability to review and update the parameters used by the routes and schedules generation processes and to initiate these processes
  3. The center shall be able to generate special routes and schedules to support an incident, disaster, evacuation, or other emergency.
  4. The center shall collect transit operational data for use in the generation of routes and schedules.
  5. The center shall exchange information with Maintenance and Construction Operations concerning work zones, roadway conditions, asset restrictions, work plans, etc.
Transit Center Paratransit Operations
  1. The center shall process trip requests for demand responsive transit services, i.e. paratransit. Sources of the requests may include traveler information service providers.
  2. The center shall monitor the operational status of the demand response vehicles including status of passenger pick-up and drop-off.
  3. The center shall disseminate up-to-date schedules and route information to other centers for demand responsive transit services (paratransit).
Transit Center Fare Management
  1. The center shall manage the actual value of transit fares for each segment of each regular transit route, including the transmission of the information to transit vehicles and transit stops or stations.
  2. The center shall process the financial requests from the transit vehicles or roadside and manage an interface to a Financial Institution.
  3. The center shall support the payment of transit fare transactions using data provided by the traveler cards / payment instruments.
  4. The center shall be capable of establishing emergency fare structures to override all other fares during disasters, states of emergency, or evacuations.
  5. The center shall exchange fare and load information with other transit management centers, including potential Centralized Payments facilities.
  6. The center shall provide transit fare information to other centers, including traveler information providers upon request.
Transit Center Signal Priority
  1. The center shall analyze transit vehicle schedule performance to determine the need for priority along certain routes or at certain intersections.
Transit Center Security
  1. The center shall receive information pertaining to a wide-area alert such as weather alerts, disaster situations, or child abductions. This information may come from Emergency Management or from other Alerting and Advisory Systems.
  2. The center shall send wide-area alert information to travelers (on-board transit vehicles or at stations/stops) and transit vehicle operators.
  3. The center shall coordinate the response to security incidents involving transit with other agencies including Emergency Management, other transit agencies, media, traffic management, and traveler information service providers.
Transit Vehicle Operator Assignment
  1. The center shall assign transit vehicle operators to transit schedules based on their eligibility, route preferences, seniority, and transit vehicle availability.
Transit Center Information Services
  1. The center shall provide travelers using public transportation with traffic and advisory information upon request. Such information may include transit routes, schedules, transfer options, fares, real-time schedule adherence, current incidents, weather conditions, and special events.
  2. The center shall provide transit information to the media including details of deviations from schedule of regular transit services.
  3. The center shall exchange transit schedules, real-time arrival information, fare schedules, and general transit service information with other transit organizations to support transit traveler information systems.
  4. The center shall provide transit service information to traveler information service providers including routes, schedules, schedule adherence, and fare information as well as transit service information during evacuation.
Transit Center Multi-Modal Coordination
  1. The center shall coordinate schedules and services between transit agencies, traffic management, maintenance and construction operations, parking management, and other surface or air transportation modes.
  2. The center shall accept requests from traffic management to change routes and schedules as part of the implementation of demand management strategies.
Transit Evacuation Support
  1. The center shall manage the use of transit resources to support evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency.
  2. The center shall coordinate regional evacuation plans with Emergency Management - identifying the transit role in an evacuation and the transit resources that would be used.