Gainesville TDM

Project Description: This project will implement a Travel Demand Management (TDM) system using express lanes, including express lane pricing, and other TDM technologies. The express lane pricing will be dynamically adjusted based on travel demand for the general purpose lanes encouraging high–occupancy vehicle usage and public transit options to improve roadway capacity.

Project Status: Planned

Project Stakeholders:

• FDOT District 2
• Floridas Turnpike Enterprise
• Gainesville Traffic Operations Division
• Travelers

Project Service Packages:

• ST06: HOV/HOT Lane Management (FDOT District 2 Express Lanes)
• TM09: Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (FDOT District 2 Traffic Management Center (HOT / Express Lanes))
• TM10: Electronic Toll Collection (Express Lane Toll Collection)

Project Information Flows:

Information Flow	Source Element	Destination Element	Status
lane management information	FDOT District 2 Field Equipment	FDOT District 2 RTMC	Planned
lane management information	FDOT District 2 Field Equipment	Gainesville Smart Traffic TMC	Planned
payment instructions	SunPass Customer Service Center	FDOT Express Lane Open Road Tolling Equipment	Planned
payment transactions	FDOT Express Lane Open Road Tolling Equipment	SunPass Customer Service Center	Planned
roadway dynamic signage data	Gainesville Smart Traffic TMC	City of Gainesville Field Equipment	Planned
roadway dynamic signage data	Gainesville Smart Traffic TMC	FDOT District 2 Field Equipment	Planned
roadway dynamic signage status	City of Gainesville Field Equipment	Gainesville Smart Traffic TMC	Planned
roadway dynamic signage status	FDOT District 2 Field Equipment	Gainesville Smart Traffic TMC	Planned
toll service change request	FDOT District 2 RTMC	SunPass Customer Service Center	Planned
toll service change response	SunPass Customer Service Center	FDOT District 2 RTMC	Planned
traffic detector control	Gainesville Smart Traffic TMC	FDOT District 2 Field Equipment	Planned
traffic detector data	FDOT District 2 Field Equipment	Gainesville Smart Traffic TMC	Planned
vehicle payment information	Vehicles	FDOT Express Lane Open Road Tolling Equipment	Planned
vehicle payment update	FDOT Express Lane Open Road Tolling Equipment	Vehicles	Planned

Project Functional Requirements (Element - Functional Object):

• City of Gainesville Field Equipment - Roadway Basic Surveillance
• 1: The field element shall collect, process, digitize, and send traffic sensor data (speed, volume, and occupancy) to the center for further analysis and storage, under center control.
• 2: The field element shall collect, process, and send traffic images to the center for further analysis and distribution.
• 3: The field element shall collect, digitize, and send multimodal crossing and high occupancy vehicle (HOV), and high occupancy toll (HOT) lane sensor data to the center for further analysis and storage.
• 4: The field element shall return sensor and CCTV system operational status to the controlling center.
• 5: The field element shall return sensor and CCTV system fault data to the controlling center for repair.


• City of Gainesville Field Equipment - Roadway HOV Control
• 1: The field element shall include sensors to detect high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane usage, under center control.
• 2: The field element shall include driver information systems to notify users of lane status for lanes that become HOV or High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes during certain times of the day on freeways, under center control.
• 3: The field element shall include freeway control devices, such as ramp signals and mainline metering and other systems associated with freeway operations that control use of HOV lanes, under center control.
• 4: The field element shall collect a count of vehicle occupants from passing vehicles using field-vehicle communications.
• 5: The field element shall provide traffic flow measures and information regarding vehicle occupancy (i.e., lane usage) in HOV lanes to the center.
• 6: The field element shall return operational status for the HOV lane sensors to the controlling center.
• 7: The field element shall return fault data for the HOV lane sensors to the center for repair.


• FDOT District 2 Field Equipment - Roadway Basic Surveillance
• 1: The field element shall collect, process, digitize, and send traffic sensor data (speed, volume, and occupancy) to the center for further analysis and storage, under center control.
• 2: The field element shall collect, process, and send traffic images to the center for further analysis and distribution.
• 3: The field element shall collect, digitize, and send multimodal crossing and high occupancy vehicle (HOV), and high occupancy toll (HOT) lane sensor data to the center for further analysis and storage.
• 4: The field element shall return sensor and CCTV system operational status to the controlling center.
• 5: The field element shall return sensor and CCTV system fault data to the controlling center for repair.


• FDOT District 2 Field Equipment - Roadway HOV Control
• 1: The field element shall include sensors to detect high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane usage, under center control.
• 2: The field element shall include driver information systems to notify users of lane status for lanes that become HOV or High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes during certain times of the day on freeways, under center control.
• 3: The field element shall include freeway control devices, such as ramp signals and mainline metering and other systems associated with freeway operations that control use of HOV lanes, under center control.
• 4: The field element shall collect a count of vehicle occupants from passing vehicles using field-vehicle communications.
• 5: The field element shall provide traffic flow measures and information regarding vehicle occupancy (i.e., lane usage) in HOV lanes to the center.
• 6: The field element shall return operational status for the HOV lane sensors to the controlling center.
• 7: The field element shall return fault data for the HOV lane sensors to the center for repair.


• FDOT District 2 Field Equipment - Roadway Traffic Information Dissemination
• 1: The field element shall include dynamic message signs for dissemination of traffic and other information to drivers, under center control; the DMS may be either those that display variable text messages, or those that have fixed format display(s) (e.g. vehicle restrictions, or lane open/close).
• 3: The field element shall provide operational status for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.) to the center.
• 4: The field element shall provide fault data for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.) to the center for repair.


• FDOT District 2 RTMC - TMC Basic Surveillance
• 1: The center shall monitor, analyze, and store traffic sensor data (speed, volume, occupancy) collected from field elements under remote control of the center.
• 2: The center shall monitor, analyze, and distribute traffic images from CCTV systems under remote control of the center.
• 3: The center shall monitor, analyze, and store multimodal crossing, high occupancy vehicle (HOV) and high occupancy toll (HOT) lane sensor data under remote control of the center.
• 4: The center shall distribute road network conditions data (raw or processed) based on collected and analyzed traffic sensor and surveillance data to other centers.
• 5: The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding sensor and surveillance data collection, analysis, storage, and distribution.
• 6: The center shall maintain a database of surveillance equipment and sensors and associated data (including the roadway on which they are located, the type of data collected, and the ownership of each).
• 7: The center shall remotely control devices to detect traffic.


• FDOT District 2 RTMC - TMC Demand Management Coordination
• 1: The center shall collect and store toll pricing data from payment administration centers, including the price for each road segment to which a toll applies, with the time and date for when it applies.
• 4: The center shall collect and store current transit, parking, and toll fee schedule information provided by regional traveler information centers.
• 5: The center shall send requests to payment administration centers to change pricing, modify restrictions, or modify operations of a toll road facility.


• FDOT District 2 RTMC - TMC HOV Lane Management
• 1: The center shall remotely control sensors to detect high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane usage.
• 2: The center shall remotely control driver information systems to notify users of lane status for lanes that become HOV or High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes during certain times of the day on freeways.
• 3: The center shall remotely control freeway control devices, such as ramp signals and mainline metering and other systems associated with freeway operations that control use of HOV lanes.
• 4: The center shall collect traffic flow measures and information regarding vehicle occupancy (i.e., lane usage) in HOV lanes.
• 5: The center shall monitor the use of HOV lanes and detect vehicles that do not have the required number of occupants.
• 6: The center shall collect operational status for the freeway control devices associated with HOV lane control.
• 7: The center shall collect fault data for the freeway control devices associated with HOV lane control for repair.
• 8: The center shall store violation parameters, detect HOV lane violators, obtain the vehicle registration data from the appropriate State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office, and then provide the capability to send violation information to a law enforcement agency.


• FDOT District 2 RTMC - TMC Regional Traffic Management
• 1: The center shall exchange traffic information with other traffic management centers including incident information, congestion data, traffic data, signal timing plans, and real-time signal control information.


• FDOT District 2 RTMC - TMC Traffic Information Dissemination
• 1: The center shall remotely control dynamic messages signs for dissemination of traffic and other information to drivers.
• 3: The center shall collect operational status for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.).
• 4: The center shall collect fault data for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.) for repair.
• 5: The center shall retrieve locally stored traffic information, including current and forecasted traffic information, road and weather conditions, traffic incident information, information on diversions and alternate routes, closures, and special traffic restrictions (lane/shoulder use, weight restrictions, width restrictions, HOV requirements), and the definition of the road network itself.
• 6: The center shall distribute traffic data to maintenance and construction centers, transit centers, emergency management centers, parking facilities, and traveler information providers.
• 8: The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to control the nature of the data that is available to non-traffic operations centers and the media.
• 9: The center shall collect current lane configurations status for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.).
• 10: The center shall provide traffic information in both data stream and graphical display.


• FDOT District 2 RTMC - TMC Traffic Management Decision Support
• 1: The center shall provide center personnel with an integrated regional view of current and forecast road and traffic conditions including traffic incidents, special events, maintenance activities and other events or conditions that impact capacity or demand.
• 2: The center shall identify network imbalances and potential courses of action.
• 3: The center shall compare the impact of potential courses of action and make recommendations to the operator.
• 4: The recommended actions shall include predefined incident response plans, signal timing plan changes, DMS/HAR messages, lane control strategies and freeway control strategies including ramp metering, interchange metering, and mainline metering.
• 6: The center shall provide an interface to center personnel to input control parameters for the decision support process and receive recommended actions and supporting information presentation.
• 7: The center shall provide transportation operational strategies to other centers.


• FDOT Express Lane Open Road Tolling Equipment - Roadway Payment Support
• 1: The field element shall read data from passing vehicles to support road usage payment transactions.
• 2: The field element shall calculate the road use payment due based on the vehicle characteristics (vehicle size, weight, axle count, etc.) and stored toll prices.
• 3: The field element shall update the stored value after debiting the road use payment amount and send a record of the transaction to a center.
• 4: The road use payment field element shall read the credit identity from the passing vehicle and send that identity and the amount to be debited to a center.
• 5: The field element shall control roadside displays indicating success or failure of the road payment transaction to the driver.
• 6: The field element shall control cameras, obtain images, and forward images of road payment violators to a center.
• 7: The field element shall read data from passing vehicles to support low emission zone entry fee payment transactions.
• 8: The field element shall send a record of the low emission zone entry fee transactions to the payment administration center.


• FDOT Express Lane Open Road Tolling Equipment - Roadway Toll Collection Support
• 1: The field element shall read data from passing vehicles to support toll payment transactions.
• 2: The field element shall calculate the toll due based on the vehicle characteristics (vehicle size, weight, axle count, etc.) and stored toll prices.
• 3: The field element shall update the stored value after debiting the toll amount and send a record of the transaction to a center.
• 4: The field element shall read the credit identity from the passing vehicle and send that identity and the amount to be debited to a center.
• 5: The field element shall support advanced toll payment by checking the vehicle's toll information against a stored list of advanced payments, and debiting the toll from the list in the case of a match.
• 6: In the case of closed toll systems, the field element shall update the vehicle on-board data with the system entry point, and upon toll system exit, use the stored data in the calculation of the toll.
• 7: The field element shall control roadside displays indicating success or failure of the toll transaction to the driver.
• 8: The field element shall control cameras, obtain images, and forward images of toll violators to a center.


• Gainesville Smart Traffic TMC - TMC Basic Surveillance
• 1: The center shall monitor, analyze, and store traffic sensor data (speed, volume, occupancy) collected from field elements under remote control of the center.
• 2: The center shall monitor, analyze, and distribute traffic images from CCTV systems under remote control of the center.
• 3: The center shall monitor, analyze, and store multimodal crossing, high occupancy vehicle (HOV) and high occupancy toll (HOT) lane sensor data under remote control of the center.
• 4: The center shall distribute road network conditions data (raw or processed) based on collected and analyzed traffic sensor and surveillance data to other centers.
• 5: The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding sensor and surveillance data collection, analysis, storage, and distribution.
• 6: The center shall maintain a database of surveillance equipment and sensors and associated data (including the roadway on which they are located, the type of data collected, and the ownership of each).
• 7: The center shall remotely control devices to detect traffic.


• Gainesville Smart Traffic TMC - TMC Demand Management Coordination
• 1: The center shall collect and store toll pricing data from payment administration centers, including the price for each road segment to which a toll applies, with the time and date for when it applies.
• 4: The center shall collect and store current transit, parking, and toll fee schedule information provided by regional traveler information centers.
• 5: The center shall send requests to payment administration centers to change pricing, modify restrictions, or modify operations of a toll road facility.


• Gainesville Smart Traffic TMC - TMC HOV Lane Management
• 1: The center shall remotely control sensors to detect high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane usage.
• 4: The center shall collect traffic flow measures and information regarding vehicle occupancy (i.e., lane usage) in HOV lanes.
• 5: The center shall monitor the use of HOV lanes and detect vehicles that do not have the required number of occupants.
• 6: The center shall collect operational status for the freeway control devices associated with HOV lane control.
• 7: The center shall collect fault data for the freeway control devices associated with HOV lane control for repair.
• 8: The center shall store violation parameters, detect HOV lane violators, obtain the vehicle registration data from the appropriate State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office, and then provide the capability to send violation information to a law enforcement agency.


• Gainesville Smart Traffic TMC - TMC Regional Traffic Management
• 1: The center shall exchange traffic information with other traffic management centers including incident information, congestion data, traffic data, signal timing plans, and real-time signal control information.
• 2: The center shall exchange traffic control information with other traffic management centers to support remote monitoring and control of traffic management devices (e.g. signs, sensors, signals, cameras, etc.).


• Gainesville Smart Traffic TMC - TMC Traffic Information Dissemination
• 1: The center shall remotely control dynamic messages signs for dissemination of traffic and other information to drivers.
• 3: The center shall collect operational status for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.).
• 4: The center shall collect fault data for the driver information systems equipment (DMS, HAR, etc.) for repair.


• Gainesville Smart Traffic TMC - TMC Traffic Management Decision Support
• 1: The center shall provide center personnel with an integrated regional view of current and forecast road and traffic conditions including traffic incidents, special events, maintenance activities and other events or conditions that impact capacity or demand.
• 2: The center shall identify network imbalances and potential courses of action.
• 3: The center shall compare the impact of potential courses of action and make recommendations to the operator.
• 4: The recommended actions shall include predefined incident response plans, signal timing plan changes, DMS/HAR messages, lane control strategies and freeway control strategies including ramp metering, interchange metering, and mainline metering.
• 6: The center shall provide an interface to center personnel to input control parameters for the decision support process and receive recommended actions and supporting information presentation.
• 7: The center shall provide transportation operational strategies to other centers.


• SunPass Customer Service Center - PAC Payment Administration
• 1: The center shall manage toll transactions, including maintaining a log of all transactions and toll pricing structure information.
• 2: The center shall dynamically price tolls based on current traffic condition information.
• 3: The center shall provide secure user account management, providing user access to rules and policies, current billing status, invoices, payments, and mechanisms for review and challenge of the collected data.
• 4: The center shall register vehicles for road or parking use payment, establishing accounts that identify owner billing information and preferences.
• 5: For electronic toll payments requiring financial payment, the center shall process the financial information from ITS roadway payment equipment and manage an interface to a Financial Institution.
• 6: The center shall manage a local billing database for toll customers.
• 7: The center shall manage the details of toll payment violations based on vehicle information from the ITS roadway payment equipment, registration information from the Department of Motor Vehicles, invalid payment information from a Financial Institution, and previous violation information stored locally, and report such violations to appropriate law enforcement agencies.
• 8: The center shall calculate traffic flow based on timestamped toll transactions for vehicle travel between successive toll plazas and send to other agencies.
• 9: The center shall respond to changes in toll prices from the Payment Administrator.
• 10: The center shall exchange data with other payment administration agencies to coordinate toll transactions and pricing.
• 11: The center shall report payment violations including vehicle information and vehicle image to the designated Enforcement Agency.
• 12: The center shall register users for an electronic payment system, establishing accounts that identify owner billing information and preferences.
• 13: The center shall provide secure user account management for the electronic payment system, providing user access to rules and policies, current billing status, invoices, payments, and mechanisms for review and challenge of the collected data.
• 14: This center shall maintain and publish the prices for the electronic payment system.
• 15: The center shall provide the HOT pricing information, including variable pricing based on calendar, time of day, vehicle type and passenger occupancy.
• 16: The center shall receive traveler payment information and compute the cost of using the portion of the transportation system.
• 17: The center shall process and clear payments from travelers and vehicle owners.
• 18: The center shall coordinate with payment administration centers that serve as a clearing house for a regional payment system in order to perform payment reconciliation.
• 19: The center shall exchange data with other payment administration centers in order to coordinate electronic payments systems use and pricing.
• 20: The center shall report enforcement agency of detected HOV or HOT lane entry violations including vehicle information and documents the lane parameter that was violated.
• 21: The center shall provide toll pricing information to other transportation centers.


• Vehicles - Light Vehicle Basic Toll/Parking Payment
• 1: The vehicle shall respond to requests from toll collection equipment for credit identity, stored value card cash, etc.
• 2: The vehicle shall respond to request from parking field equipment for credit identity, stored value card cash, etc.
• 3: The vehicle shall provide an interface to the driver to make requests for advance payments of tolls, parking, and transit fares and present the status of electronic payment transactions.
• 4: The vehicle shall provide an interface with the traveler card / payment instrument carried on-board the vehicle - to exchange identity information and payment transactions.
• 5: The vehicle shall present payment information to the driver in audible or visual forms without impairing the driver's ability to control the vehicle in a safe manner.


• Vehicles - Light Vehicle Payment Service
• 1: The vehicle shall track and record its timestamped location and report this Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) data.
• 2: The vehicle shall report VMT data to the registered center using wide area wireless communication.
• 3: The vehicle shall report VMT data via Field-Vehicle communications to the Roadway Payment field equipment on request.
• 4: The vehicle shall report VMT equipment status to fixed or mobile field equipment on request.
• 5: The vehicle shall provide payment information on request under control of the vehicle owner/operator.
• 6: The vehicle shall receive and present to the vehicle operator the actual cost of roadways used and the estimated cost of roadways when requested by the vehicle operator.

Standards:

• (None-Data) - Guaranteed Secure Internet (ITS)
• (None-Data) - Secure Internet (ITS)
• US: NTCIP Message Sign - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: NTCIP Transportation Sensors - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: NTCIP Warning Device - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: WAVE Tolling - Local Unicast Wireless (1609.2)

Project Operational Concepts:

Roles and Responsibilities

• Floridas Turnpike Enterprise
• Coordinate with FDOT District 2 RTMC to process dynamic tolls.


• FDOT District 2
• Control and coordinate highway traffic with lane control signals on FDOT highways.
• Coordinate traffic information with other FDOT District transportation management centers (TMCs).
• Operate and coordinate traffic control devices, traffic sensors, and CCTVs on FDOT freeways, including the ability to control traffic on overflow ramps.
• Operate express lanes on FDOT highways, including coordinating with FTE for dynamic tolling.
• Provide traffic information to travelers using DMS devices.


• Gainesville Traffic Operations Division
• Coordinate traffic information with FDOT District 2.
• Coordinate with FDOT District 2 to operate express lanes on highways, including dynamic tolling.
• Obtain traffic images and traffic flow data using CCTVs and field sensors, and maintain operational control of its own field equipment.
• Provide traffic information to travelers using City of Gainesville DMS equipment.