Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage System

Interconnects - Flows - Entities - Services - Functional Requirements

Definition:

The Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage System provides rides through private paratransit providers and is administered by the Department on Aging.

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Systems Interconnected
with the Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage System

Sedgwick County 911 Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage Vehicles Wichita Transit Operations Center

Interconnect Diagram

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Architecture Flow Diagrams
which include Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage System:

• Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage System Sedgwick County 911
• Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage System Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage Vehicles
• Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage System Wichita Transit Operations Center

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Architecture Flows
to/from the Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage System:

Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage SystemSedgwick County 911

• alert status


• emergency plan coordination


• emergency transit schedule information


• emergency transit service response


• transit emergency data


• transit system status assessment

Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage SystemSedgwick County Transportation Brokerage Vehicles

• transit vehicle operator information

Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage SystemWichita Transit Operations Center

• transit service coordination

Sedgwick County 911Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage System

• alert notification


• emergency plan coordination


• emergency transit service request


• evacuation information


• incident information


• incident response status


• threat information


• transportation system status

Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage VehiclesSedgwick County Transportation Brokerage System

• transit vehicle location data


• transit vehicle passenger and use data


• transit vehicle schedule performance

Wichita Transit Operations CenterSedgwick County Transportation Brokerage System

• transit service coordination

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National ITS Architecture Subsystems
mapped to the Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage System:

• Transit Management Subsystem

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National ITS Architecture Services
associated with Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage System:

• APTS1 - Sedgwick County Dept. of Aging Transit Vehicle Tracking -- (Graphic)
• APTS3 - Sedgwick County Dept. of Aging Demand Response Transit Operations -- (Graphic)
• MC08 - KDOT Work Zone Management -- Graphic 1 2 3

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National ITS Architecture Functional Requirements
associated with Sedgwick County Transportation Brokerage System:

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 generate demand response transit (including paratransit) routes and schedules based on such factors as parameters input by the system operator, what other demand responsive transit schedules have been planned, the availability and location of vehicles, the relevance of any fixed transit routes and schedules, and road network information.
4. The center shall disseminate up-to-date schedules and route information to other centers for demand responsive transit services (paratransit).

1. The center shall assign transit vehicle operators to transit schedules based on their eligibility, route preferences, seniority, and transit vehicle availability.

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.
3. The center shall coordinate the use of transit and school bus fleets during an evacuation, supporting evacuation of those with special needs and the general population.
4. The center shall adjust and update transit service and fare schedules and provide that information to other agencies as they coordinate evacuations.