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Research and Data Collection Center

Status:

Existing

Definition:

These centers collect transportation data for research and operational analysis. Example is such as Old Dominion University.

Stakeholder:

Local Universities and Research Facilities

Architecture Flow Diagrams
which include Research and Data Collection Center:

• Research and Data Collection Center VDOT ERO TOC/ATMS

Architecture Flows
to/from the Research and Data Collection Center:

Research and Data Collection Center VDOT ERO TOC/ATMS

• archive coordination


• archive status


• archived data products

VDOT ERO TOC/ATMSResearch and Data Collection Center

• archived data product requests


• traffic archive data

National ITS Architecture Subsystems
mapped to the Research and Data Collection Center:

• Archived Data System Subsystem

National ITS Architecture Services
associated with Research and Data Collection Center:

• DM01 - ITS Data Warehouse -- (Graphic)

National ITS Architecture Functional Requirements
associated with Research and Data Collection Center:

Archive Situation Data Archival

1. The center shall provide the capability to adjust the collection of field-sourced data based on the statistical measures.
2. The center shall provide the capability to execute methods on the incoming field data such as aggregation and statistical measures before the data is stored in the archive.
3. The center shall respond to requests from the administrator interface function to manage field-sourced data collection.
4. The center shall collect data from roadside devices.

Archive Data Repository

1. The center shall respond to requests from the administrator interface function to manage center-sourced data collection.
2. The center shall collect data from centers.
3. 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).
4. The center shall store collected data in an information repository.
5. The center shall perform quality checks on collected data.
6. The center shall notify the system operator of errors related to data collection, analysis and archival.
7. The center shall include capabilities for archive to archive coordination.