ITS shall provide Maintenance and Construction Operations (MCO) functions to support monitoring, operating, maintaining, improving and managing the physical condition of roadways, the associated infrastructure equipment, and the required resources. MCO shall focus on four major functions: 1) the Maintenance Vehicle Fleet Management function, to monitor and track locations and conditions of fleets of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles; 2) the Roadway Management function, to monitor and forecast conditions and manage treatment of roadways during various travel conditions; 3) the Work Zone Management and Safety function, to support effective and efficient roadway operations during work zone activities; and 4) the Roadway Maintenance Conditions and Work Plan Dissemination function, to coordinate work plans and to communicate conditions. This User Service will utilize ITS systems and processes to support interchange of information among diverse groups of users, to improve efficiency and effectiveness of operational, maintenance, and managerial activities.

Maintenance and Construction Operations shall provide a Maintenance Vehicle Fleet Management (MVFM) function to schedule and dispatch, monitor and track location, and monitor operational condition and maintenance requirements of public and contracted fleets of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles. This function includes interactions among Traffic Managers, Supervisors, Dispatchers, Field Crews, Construction Crews, Vehicle Maintenance Crews, Equipment Maintenance Crews, Weather Services Organizations, and Information Service Providers.

MVFM shall be capable of monitoring and tracking the locations of public and contracted fleets of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles to provide current location and status information.

MVFM shall be capable of monitoring and tracking the locations of fleets of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles, including but not limited to:

Roadway maintenance trucks

Other motorized roadway maintenance equipment

Roadway construction trucks

Other motorized roadway construction equipment

Roadway service patrols

Snow plows

Salt / sand trucks

Bucket trucks

Vegetation Control and Grass cutting equipment

Traffic control vehicles

Street and drainage cleaning vehicles

MVFM shall be capable of monitoring information regarding fleets of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles, including but not limited to:

Location

Speed

MVFM shall be capable of tracking the past location and movement of maintenance, construction, and specialized vehicles.

MVFM shall be capable of supporting route scheduling and dispatching of public and contracted fleets of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles.

MVFM shall be capable of supporting interactive data communications between dispatchers and operators of public and contracted maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles.

MVFM shall be capable of communicating information to vehicle operators, including but not limited to:

Routing information

Scheduling data

Dispatch instructions

Corrective actions

Environmental information (road and weather conditions)

MVFM shall be capable of communicating information from vehicle operators, including but not limited to:

Work data

Operator status

Crew status

Equipment status

MVFM shall be capable of using on-board vehicle sensors to monitor the vehicle diagnostics and operating conditions of public and contracted fleets of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles.

MVFM shall be capable of collecting information on the operating conditions of vehicles, including but not limited to:

System status (e.g. status of brake system, oil pressure, etc.)

Engine temperature

Mileage

Tire wear

Brake wear

Belt wear

MVFM shall be capable of automatically scheduling preventive and corrective vehicle maintenance.

MVFM shall be capable of using on-board vehicle sensors to monitor roadway conditions and vehicle functions, including but not limited to:

Environmental conditions

Operating status (e.g. materials stored, materials usage, plow blade up/down, etc.)

MVFM shall be capable of providing dispatchers and operators of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles with information regarding potential and actual roadway problems.

MVFM shall provide information to dispatchers and vehicle operators, including but not limited to:

Congestion

Incidents

Roadway restrictions

Environmental conditions

MVFM shall be capable of filtering, fusing, processing, and presenting data from multiple weather and environmental sources.

MVFM shall be capable of receiving fused weather and roadway information from external sources, including but not limited to:

Surface transportation sources

Weather service organizations

MVFM shall be capable of using fused weather and roadway information from external sources to aid in scheduling roadway maintenance and construction activities.

MVFM shall provide information to the vehicle operators concerning roadway problem spots and alternate routes because of potential or actual roadway problems.

MVFM shall support transmission of fleet operations data to other Operations centres.

MVFM shall support transmission of fleet operations data to archives.

MVFM shall support the comparison of incident data with scheduled fleet activities.

MVFM shall be capable of communicating status information to other maintenance, construction or specialized service vehicles.

Maintenance and Construction Operations shall provide a Roadway Management (RWM) function to monitor traffic, road surface, and environmental conditions and forecast traffic and road surface conditions to support management of routine and hazardous road condition remediation and to communicate changes in conditions. This function includes interactions among Traffic Managers, Supervisors, Dispatchers, Field Crews, Construction Crews, Asset Managers, Planning Agencies, and Weather Services Organizations.

RWM shall support a number of different services, including but not limited to:

Winter maintenance (plowing, treating, anti-icing, de-icing, etc.)

Hazard removal (removing trash, animals, etc.)

Emergency activities (incident response, planning, alternate routing, etc.)

Routine maintenance activities (cleaning, cutting, etc.)

Repair activities

Other weather related activities (fog dispersion, etc.)

RWM shall support provision of efficient and effective roadway operations during normal and severe weather or adverse travel conditions.

RWM shall plan and forecast, proactive and reactive, year-round roadway management activities.

RWM shall determine the need for forecasted and scheduled roadway treatment.

RWM shall be capable of filtering, fusing, processing and presenting data from multiple weather and environmental sources.

RWM shall be capable of receiving and fusing weather and roadway information from external sources, including but not limited to:

Surface transportation sources

Weather service organizations

RWM shall make use of information on current and forecast weather.

RWM shall make use of information on usage of treatments and materials.

RWM shall support short-term weather prediction for winter maintenance.

RWM shall support management of resources to perform hazardous road condition remediation.

RWM shall support application of materials, plowing, and other means to counteract adverse winter weather conditions.

RWM shall support appropriate responses to other environmental conditions that effect travel.

RWM shall track the amount of materials applied to the roadway for comparison to planned / forecasted requirements.

RWM shall monitor the amount and availability of materials at storage facilities.

RWM shall support maintenance crew dispatching.

RWM shall monitor, manage, and control remotely located, automated systems, that affect the roadway surface (e.g. de-icing/anti-icing applications).

RWM shall archive data for use in performance monitoring activities.

RWM shall support the configuration and control of electrical lighting systems located along the roadside.

Maintenance and Construction Operations shall provide a Work Zone Management and Safety (WZMS) function, which provides support for the effectiveness, safety, and efficiency of roadway operations during all work zone activities. This function includes interactions among Traffic Managers, Supervisors, Dispatchers, Field Crews, Construction Crews, Public Safety Organizations, Information Service Providers, and Travellers.

WZMS shall monitor, control, and direct activity in the vicinity of work zones.

WZMS shall provide information about work zones, including but not limited to:

Anticipated delays

Alternate routes

Suggested speed limit

WZMS shall provide support for automated speed enforcement around work zones.

WZMS shall be able to divert vehicles around work zones via automated lane changing techniques.

WZMS shall collect information used to support automated lane changing, including but not limited to:

Volume

Occupancy

Speed

Headways

Vehicle characteristics

Merging distance

WZMS shall support archiving of field data.

WZMS shall support use of field data for developing AHS-merging strategies.

WZMS shall support the management of data about work zones.

WZMS shall collect information concerning work zone activities, including but not limited to:

Location

Nature / type

Scheduled start time

Duration

Lane shifts

Staging areas

Length of work zone

Scheduled phases of work zone configuration

Alternate routes

Anticipated delays for travel route

Anticipated delays for diversion route

WZMS shall correlate planned activities with actual work.

WZMS shall support preparation of reports on work zone activities.

WZMS shall provide information on work zone activities to other agencies, including but not limited to:

Other maintenance and construction operations systems

Commercial vehicle fleets

Emergency vehicle fleets

Traveller information systems

Traffic management systems

WZMS shall provide systems that communicate reliable, accurate, and timely traveller information, including but not limited to:

Location, including lane closure information

Alternate route / detour

Work zone speed limit

Delay

WZMS shall support the provision of vehicle intrusion warnings.

WZMS shall be capable of tracking individual crew movements.

Maintenance and Construction Operations shall provide a Roadway Maintenance Conditions and Work Plan Dissemination (RMCWPD) function to provide Intra- and Inter-agency coordination of work plans. This function includes interactions among Traffic Managers, Supervisors, Planning Agencies, Public Safety Organizations, and Information Service Providers.

RMCWPD shall coordinate information on planned maintenance and construction activities, including work zone information, and unplanned remediation activities, such as inclement weather responses, so that routing, scheduling, and resource allocation can be accomplished.

RMCWP shall support inter-agency coordination of response and scheduling of resources for significant events with broad impact, like natural disasters, major incidents, and large planned or seasonal events.

RMCWPD shall coordinate information with other transportation agencies, including but not limited to:

Public Safety

Emergency Medical Management

Transit

Traffic Management

Railroads

Airports

Information Service Providers

Transportation Asset Management (Pavement management, bridge management, etc)