Inventory
Each stakeholder agency, company, or group owns, operates, maintains or plans ITS systems in the region. The Regional ITS Architecture inventory is a list of "elements" that represent all existing and planned ITS systems in a region as well as non–ITS systems that provide information to or get information from the ITS systems.
| Element | Description |
|---|---|
| Archived Data User System | 'Archived Data User System' represents the systems users employ to access archived data. The general interface provided allows a broad range of users (e.g. planners, researchers, analysts, operators) and their systems (e.g. databases, models, analytical tools, user interface devices) to acquire data and analyses results from the archive. |
| CAT Drivers | CAT bus drivers |
| CAT Information Provider | An architecture element to represent the transit traveler information function performed within CAT. |
| CAT Operations Center | Cities Area Transit dispatch center |
| CAT System Operators | CAT dispatch and operations personnel |
| CAT Traveler Card | Traveler Cards enable the actual transfer of electronic information from the user of a service (I.e. a traveler) to the provider of the service. This element is designated for both physical card and mobile ticketing systems. By September 2024, this will be identified as CAT Pass. |
| CAT Vehicles | Transit vehicles include ITS devices that support the safe and efficient movement of passengers. These systems collect, manage, and disseminate transit–related information to the driver, operations and maintenance personnel, and transit system patrons. |
| Driver | The 'Driver' represents the person that operates a vehicle on the roadway. Included are operators of private, transit, commercial, and emergency vehicles where the interactions are not particular to the type of vehicle (e.g., interactions supporting vehicle safety applications). The Driver originates driver requests and receives driver information that reflects the interactions which might be useful to all drivers, regardless of vehicle classification. Information and interactions which are unique to drivers of a specific vehicle type (e.g., fleet interactions with transit, commercial, or emergency vehicle drivers) are covered by separate objects. |
| EGF Dispatch | An architecture element representing 9–1–1 call taking and dispatch in East Grand Forks covering services provided by EGF Police and Fire Departments Dispatch along with Polk County Dispatch Center. |
| EGF PW Operations Center | East Grand Forks public works operations center |
| Emergency Personnel | 'Emergency Personnel' represents personnel that are responsible for police, fire, emergency medical services, towing, service patrols, and other special response team (e.g., hazardous material clean–up) activities at an incident site. These personnel are associated with the Emergency Vehicle during dispatch to the incident site, but often work independently of the Emergency Vehicle while providing their incident response services. |
| Emergency Personnel Device | 'Emergency Personnel Device' represents devices used by emergency personnel in the field. The devices would include body cameras or smartphones (and their peripherals) that can be used by emergency personnel to provide images or video as well as send or receive data regarding the incident. The devices could also be used for incident scene safety messages to the personnel. |
| Emergency System Operator | 'Emergency System Operator' represents the public safety personnel that monitor emergency requests, (including those from the E911 Operator) and set up pre–defined responses to be executed by an emergency management system. The operator may also override predefined responses where it is observed that they are not achieving the desired result. This also includes dispatchers who manage an emergency fleet (police, fire, ambulance, HAZMAT, etc.) or higher order emergency managers who provide response coordination during emergencies. |
| Event Promoters | Alerus Center, Ralph Engelstad Arena, other venues |
| GF County Maintenance | Grand Forks County Maintenance Operations Center |
| GF County Maintenance Vehicles | The 'Maint and Constr Vehicle OBE' resides in a maintenance, construction, or other specialized service vehicle or equipment and provides the processing, storage, and communications functions necessary to support highway maintenance and construction. All types of maintenance and construction vehicles are covered, including heavy equipment and supervisory vehicles. The MCV OBE provides two–way communications between drivers/operators and dispatchers and maintains and communicates current location and status information. A wide range of operational status is monitored, measured, and made available, depending on the specific type of vehicle or equipment. A snow plow for example, would monitor whether the plow is up or down and material usage information. The Maint and Constr Vehicle OBE may also contain capabilities to monitor vehicle systems to support maintenance of the vehicle itself and include sensors that monitor environmental conditions such as road condition and surface weather information. This can include a diverse set of mobile environmental sensing platforms, including wheeled vehicles and any other vehicle that collects and reports environmental information. A separate 'Vehicle OBE' physical object supports the general vehicle safety and driver information capabilities that apply to all vehicles, including maintenance and construction vehicles. The Maint and Constr Vehicle OBE supplements these general capabilities with capabilities that are specific to maintenance and construction vehicles. |
| GF PD DMS | Grand Forks Police Department portable Dynamic Message Signs |
| GF PIC | City of Grand Forks Public Information Center |
| GF PSAP | Grand Forks County Public Safety Answering Point |
| GF PW Operations Center | Grand Forks public works operations center |
| GF PW Vehicles | Grand Forks public works vehicles |
| GF Rail Detection and Information System | A system that detects rail signal preemption at specific roadway–rail intersections and provide information to travelers so they can take alternate routes. |
| GF TOC | Grand Forks Traffic Operations Center |
| GF TOC Field Devices | Grand Forks area traffic sensors and control devices including signals owned and maintained by NDDOT but operated by Grand Forks TOC. |
| GF Traffic Operations Personnel | 'Traffic Operations Personnel' represents the people that operate a traffic management center. These personnel interact with traffic control systems, traffic surveillance systems, incident management systems, work zone management systems, and travel demand management systems. They provide operator data and command inputs to direct system operations to varying degrees depending on the type of system and the deployment scenario. |
| GF Transportation Data Archival | Archival center for transportation data, initially this will house traffic counts but other data could be warehoused there including transit data, incident data, etc. Currently data from different agencies is housed in separate databases. |
| GF–EGF Emergency Management | A single architecture element representing emergency agencies in the region including dispatchers, law enforcement, and emergency responders. |
| GF–EGF Emergency Vehicles | A single architecture element representing emergency vehicles used by law enforcement and emergency responders in the GF–EGF region. |
| GF–EGF Maintenance | A single architecture element representing maintenance management agencies in the GF–EGF region including the cities, counties, and both state DOTs. The single element simplifies architecture flows while individual agencies are referred to when needed. |
| GF–EGF Maintenance Vehicles | A single architecture element representing maintenance and construction vehicles used by Grand Forks and East Grand Forks public works departments, Grand Forks and Polk counties, NDDOT GF District, and MnDOT D2. |
| Government Reporting Systems | 'Government Reporting Systems' represents the system and associated personnel that prepare the inputs to support the various local, state, and federal government transportation data reporting requirements (e.g. Highway Performance Monitoring System, Fatality Analysis Reporting System) using data collected by ITS systems. It represents a system interface that provides access to the archived data relevant to these reports. In most cases, this system will combine data collected from ITS archives with data from non–ITS sources to assemble the required information. |
| Location and Time Data Source | The 'Location and Time Data Source' provides accurate position information. While a Global Positioning System (GPS) Receiver is the most common implementation, this physical object represents any technology that provides a position fix in three dimensions and time with sufficient accuracy. |
| Maint and Constr Center Personnel | An ITS element representing maintenance and construction personnel from agencies in GF–EGF. The people that directly interface with a Maintenance and Construction Management Center. These personnel interact with fleet dispatch and management systems, road maintenance systems, incident management systems, work plan scheduling systems, and work zone management systems. They provide operator data and command inputs to direct system operations to varying degrees depending on the type of system and the deployment scenario. |
| Maint and Constr Vehicle Operator | Maintenance and construction vehicle operators in GF–EGF. The operator of maintenance, construction, or other specialized service vehicles or equipment. Represents the maintenance and construction vehicle operators. The operator provides input specific to maintenance and construction vehicle operations, including the status of maintenance actions. Information provided to the operator includes dispatch requests and maintenance and construction actions to be performed. |
| Media | This element designates print, digital and virtual media (social media). |
| MnDOT D2 Field Devices | Mn/DOT District 2 sensors, traffic signals, and DMS. |
| MnDOT D2 Office | Mn/DOT District 2 Traffic Operations Center |
| MNDOT D2 Traffic Operations Personnel | Traffic operations personnel in MnDOT District 2 responsible for signal operations in East Grand Forks. 'Traffic Operations Personnel' represents the people that operate a traffic management center. These personnel interact with traffic control systems, traffic surveillance systems, incident management systems, work zone management systems, and travel demand management systems. They provide operator data and command inputs to direct system operations to varying degrees depending on the type of system and the deployment scenario. |
| MSP District 3200 | Minnesota State Patrol District serving the Northwestern counties of Minnesota including Polk. |
| NDDOT Field Devices | 'ITS Roadway Equipment' represents the ITS equipment that is distributed on and along the roadway that monitors and controls traffic and monitors and manages the roadway itself. This physical object includes traffic detectors, environmental sensors, traffic signals, highway advisory radios, dynamic message signs, CCTV cameras and video image processing systems, grade crossing warning systems, and ramp metering systems. Lane management systems and barrier systems that control access to transportation infrastructure such as roadways, bridges and tunnels are also included. This object also provides environmental monitoring including sensors that measure road conditions, surface weather, and vehicle emissions. Work zone systems including work zone surveillance, traffic control, driver warning, and work crew safety systems are also included. |
| NDDOT GF District Office | NDDOT District maintenance and construction and freeway operations. |
| NDHP Grand Forks | North Dakota Highway Patrol – Grand Forks District |
| Personal Information Device | The 'Personal Information Device' provides the capability for travelers to receive formatted traveler information wherever they are. Capabilities include traveler information, trip planning, and route guidance. Frequently a smart phone, the Personal Information Device provides travelers with the capability to receive route planning and other personally focused transportation services from the infrastructure in the field, at home, at work, or while en–route. Personal Information Devices may operate independently or may be linked with connected vehicle on–board equipment. |
| State Radio | ND State Radio |
| Traveler | The 'Traveler' represents any individual who uses transportation services. The interfaces to the traveler provide general pre–trip and en–route information supporting trip planning, personal guidance, and requests for assistance in an emergency that are relevant to all transportation system users. It also represents users of a public transportation system and addresses interfaces these users have within a transit vehicle or at transit facilities such as roadside stops and transit centers. |
| Wayside Equipment | 'Wayside Equipment' represents train interface equipment (usually) maintained and operated by the railroad and (usually) physically located at or near a grade crossing. It is a source and destination for information for, or about, approaching trains and their crews (e.g. the time at which the train will arrive and the time it will take to clear a crossing, crossing status or warnings, etc.). Generally one wayside equipment interface would be associated with one highway rail intersection. However, multiple crossings may be controlled using information based on data from one wayside equipment interface. |
| Weather Service System | The 'Weather Service System' provides weather, hydrologic, and climate information and warnings of hazardous weather including thunderstorms, flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, winter weather, tsunamis, and climate events. It provides atmospheric weather observations and forecasts that are collected and derived by the National Weather Service, private sector providers, and various research organizations. The interface provides formatted weather data products suitable for on–line processing and integration with other ITS data products as well as Doppler radar images, satellite images, severe storm warnings, and other products that are formatted for presentation to various ITS users. |