Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles Upgrade

Project Description: ITS equipment planned to be installed on the paratransit vehicles to possibly include passenger counting, fare management, real time bus information, closed mic radio system, closed circuit TV and transit signal priority.

Project Status: Planned

Project Stakeholders:

• Collier County Growth Management Division
• Collier County Public Transit and Neighborhood Enhancement (PTNE) Department
• Regional SmartCard

Project Service Packages:

• PT01: Transit Vehicle Tracking( Collier County Public Transit and Neighborhood Enhancement)
• PT03: Dynamic Transit Operations (Collier County)
• PT04: Transit Fare Collection Management (Collier County Paratransit Service)
• PT05: Transit Security (Collier County 2 of 2)
• PT07: Transit Passenger Counting (Collier County)
• PT09: Transit Signal Priority (Collier County Paratransit Service)

Project Information Flows:

Information Flow	Source Element	Destination Element	Status
actuate secure payment	Regional SmartCard	Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles	Ongoing
alarm acknowledge	Collier Area Transit Dispatch	Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles	Ongoing
alarm notification	Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles	Collier Area Transit Dispatch	Ongoing
demand response passenger and use data	Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles	Collier Area Paratransit Dispatch	Ongoing
fare collection data	Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles	Collier Area Paratransit Dispatch	Ongoing
local signal priority request	Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles	Collier County Field Equipment	Ongoing
request for payment	Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles	Regional SmartCard	Ongoing
secure area surveillance control	Collier Area Transit Dispatch	Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles	Ongoing
secure area surveillance data	Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles	Collier Area Transit Dispatch	Ongoing
transit vehicle loading data	Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles	Collier Area Paratransit Dispatch	Ongoing
transit vehicle location data	Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles	Collier Area Paratransit Dispatch	Ongoing
transit vehicle operator information	Collier Area Paratransit Dispatch	Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles	Ongoing
transit vehicle schedule performance	Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles	Collier Area Paratransit Dispatch	Ongoing

Project Functional Requirements (Element - Functional Object):

• Collier Area Paratransit Dispatch - Transit Center Fare Management
• 3: The center shall process the financial requests from the transit vehicles or roadside and manage an interface to a Financial Institution.
• 4: The center shall support the payment of transit fare transactions using data provided by the traveler cards / payment instruments.


• Collier Area Paratransit Dispatch - 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 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, road network information, and incident information.
• 4: The center shall dispatch demand response (paratransit) transit vehicles.
• 5: The center shall exchange information with Maintenance and Construction Operations concerning work zones, roadway conditions, asset restrictions, work plans, etc., that affect paratransit operations
• 7: The center shall collect the log of passenger boardings and alightings from the paratransit vehicles.


• Collier Area Paratransit Dispatch - Transit Center Passenger Counting
• 1: The center shall collect passenger count information from each transit vehicle.


• Collier Area Paratransit Dispatch - Transit Center Priority Management
• 1: The center shall analyze transit vehicle schedule performance to determine the need for priority along certain routes or at certain intersections.
• 2: The center shall send requests for priority along routes or at intersections to traffic management.
• 3: The center shall define business rules that govern use of transit vehicle signal priority, communicate these rules to the transit vehicle, and monitor transit vehicle requests for priority at signalized intersections.


• Collier Area Paratransit Dispatch - Transit Center Vehicle Tracking
• 1: The center shall monitor the locations of all transit vehicles within its network.


• Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles - Transit Vehicle On-Board Fare Management
• 1: The transit vehicle shall read data from the traveler card / payment instrument presented by boarding passengers.
• 9: The transit vehicle shall provide fare statistics data to the center.


• Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles - Transit Vehicle On-Board Paratransit Operations
• 2: The transit vehicle shall receive the status of demand responsive or flexible-route transit schedules and passenger loading from the transit vehicle operator.
• 3: The transit vehicle shall provide the transit vehicle operator instructions about the demand responsive or flexible-route transit schedule that has been confirmed from the center.
• 4: The transit vehicle shall provide the capability to log passenger boardings and alightings and make passenger use data available to the transit center.


• Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles - Transit Vehicle On-Board Trip Monitoring
• 1: The transit vehicle shall track the current location of the transit vehicle.


• Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles - Transit Vehicle Passenger Counting
• 1: The transit vehicle shall count passengers boarding and alighting.


• Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles - Transit Vehicle Security
• 1: The transit vehicle shall perform video and audio surveillance inside of transit vehicles and output raw video or audio data for either local monitoring (for processing or direct output to the transit vehicle operator), remote monitoring or for local storage (e.g., in an event recorder).
• 10: The transit vehicle shall output reported emergencies to the center.
• 9: The transit vehicle shall accept emergency inputs from either the transit vehicle operator or a traveler through such interfaces as panic buttons, silent or audible alarms, etc.


• Collier Area Paratransit Vehicles - Transit Vehicle Signal Priority
• 1: The transit vehicle shall determine the schedule deviation and estimated times of arrival (ETA) at transit stops.
• 2: The transit vehicle shall send priority requests to traffic signal controllers at intersections, pedestrian crossings, and multimodal crossings on the roads (surface streets) and freeway (ramp controls) network that enable a transit vehicle schedule deviation to be corrected.
• 3: The transit vehicle shall send the schedule deviation data and status of priority requests to the transit vehicle operator and provide the capability for the transit vehicle operator to control the priority system.
• 4: The transit vehicle shall prevent a priority request from being sent when the transit vehicle cannot use the priority (e.g., when the transit vehicle makes a passenger stop on the approach to an intersection).


• Collier Area Transit Dispatch - 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.


• Collier Area Transit Dispatch - Transit Center Passenger Counting
• 1: The center shall collect passenger count information from each transit vehicle.
• 2: The center shall calculate transit ridership data by route, route segment, transit stop, time of day, and day of week based on the collected passenger count information.


• Collier Area Transit Dispatch - Transit Center Vehicle Tracking
• 1: The center shall monitor the locations of all transit vehicles within its network.
• 2: The center shall determine adherence of transit vehicles to their assigned schedule.
• 3: The center shall provide transit operational data to traveler information service providers.


• Collier County Field Equipment - Roadway Signal Control
• 1: The field element shall control traffic signals under center control.
• 10: The field element shall receive request for transit vehicle signal priority.
• 4: The field element shall report the current signal control information to the center.
• 6: The field element shall return traffic signal controller operational status to the center.


• Regional SmartCard - ITS Security Support
• 1: The ITS Object shall obtain security policy information from the Cooperative Intelligent Transportation System Credentials Management System (CCMS).
• 2: The ITS Object shall request enrollment credentials from the CCMS.
• 3: The ITS Object shall obtain the CCMS' trust credentials.
• 4: The ITS Object shall provide a mechanism for on-board applications to digitally sign messages using keys secured by the CCMS' trust authority.
• 5: The ITS Object shall provide a mechanism for on-board applications to authenticate messages secured by the CCMS' trust authority.
• 6: The ITS Object shall provide a mechanism for on-board applications to encrypt messages using keys secured by the CCMS' trust authority.
• 8: The ITS Object shall obtain a list of revoked credentials from the CCMS.

Standards:

• (None-Data) - Secure Wireless Internet (ITS)
• US: GTFS real-time - Secure Wireless Internet (ITS)
• US: SAE Signal Preemption - WAVE TCP
• US: TCIP - Secure Wireless Internet (ITS)

Project Operational Concepts:

Roles and Responsibilities

• Collier County Growth Management Division
• Operate traffic signal systems for Collier County.
• Provide signal priority to Collier Area transit vehicles.


• Collier County Public Transit and Neighborhood Enhancement (PTNE) Department
• Obtain traffic signal priority for deviated fixed-route transit vehicles from Collier County's ATMS using county roadside field equipment.
• Obtain traffic signal priority for paratransit vehicles from Collier County’s ATMS using county roadside field equipment.
• Provide automated transit maintenance schedules using automated vehicle conditions reporting on all deviated fixed-route buses.
• Provide deviated fixed-route bus service for Collier County and the surrounding area.
• Provide security cameras on transit vehicles and at transfer stations. Vehicles are also equipped with silent alarms.
• Provide transit traveler information for the agency Web site and local private sector traveler ISPs, as well as making it available on all transit vehicles.
• Track and evaluate schedule performance on all Collier County deviated fixed-route buses.


• Regional SmartCard
• Support payment for transit services for multiple regional transit agencies.

Last Updated 5/25/2023