Broward County Transit CAD/AVL Upgrade

Project Description: This project will upgrade the CAD/AVL System for Broward County Transit.

Project Status: Planned

Project Stakeholders:

• Broward County Transit

Project Service Packages:

• PT01: Transit Vehicle Tracking (Broward County Transit System)
• PT02: Transit Fixed-Route Operations (Broward County Transit)

Project Information Flows:

Information Flow	Source Element	Destination Element	Status
transit schedule information	BCT Transit Systems	BCT Fixed Route Vehicles	Planned
transit vehicle location data	BCT Fixed Route Vehicles	BCT Transit Systems	Planned
transit vehicle location data	BCT Supervisor and Maintenance Vehicles	BCT Transit Systems	Planned
transit vehicle operator information	BCT Transit Systems	BCT Fixed Route Vehicles	Planned
transit vehicle schedule performance	BCT Fixed Route Vehicles	BCT Transit Systems	Planned

Project Functional Requirements (Element - Functional Object):

• BCT Fixed Route Vehicles - Transit Vehicle On-Board Trip Monitoring
• 1: The transit vehicle shall track the current location of the transit vehicle.


• BCT Fixed Route Vehicles - Transit Vehicle Schedule Management
• 1: The transit vehicle shall receive a vehicle assignment including transit route information, transit service instructions, traffic information, road conditions, and other information for the operator.
• 2: The transit vehicle shall use the route information and its current location to determine the deviation from the predetermined schedule.
• 3: The transit vehicle shall calculate the estimated times of arrival (ETA) at transit stops.


• BCT Supervisor and Maintenance Vehicles - Transit Vehicle Schedule Management
• 1: The transit vehicle shall receive a vehicle assignment including transit route information, transit service instructions, traffic information, road conditions, and other information for the operator.
• 8: The transit vehicle shall notify the transit center of vehicle location and operational status as the vehicle exits and returns to the transit facility to support future vehicle assignments.


• BCT Transit Systems - Transit Center Fixed-Route Operations
• 1: The center shall generate transit routes and schedules based on such factors as parameters input by the system operator, road network conditions, incident information, operational data on current routes and schedules, and digitized map data.
• 2: The center shall provide the interface to the system operator to control the generation of new routes and schedules (transit services) including the ability to review and update the parameters used by the routes and schedules generation processes and to initiate these processes
• 4: The center shall dispatch fixed route or flexible route transit vehicles.
• 5: The center shall collect transit operational data for use in the generation of routes and schedules.


• BCT Transit Systems - Transit Center Operator Assignment
• 1: The center shall maintain records of a transit vehicle operator's performance. This may be done utilizing standardized performance evaluation criteria set forth by governmental regulations and transit operating company policies, assessing the transit vehicle operator's driving history, and assessing comments from the transit vehicle operator's supervisor(s) as well as noting any moving violations or accidents, supervisor comments, government regulations, and company policies.
• 2: The center shall assess the transit vehicle operator's availability based on previous work assignments, accumulated hours, plus health and vacation commitments.


• BCT Transit Systems - Transit Center Vehicle Assignment
• 1: The center shall assign individual transit vehicles to transit blocks.
• 2: The center shall download vehicle assignments to the transit vehicle prior to the start of the day’s operations.


• BCT Transit Systems - 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.

Standards:

• US: GTFS real-time - Secure Wireless Internet (ITS)
• US: GTFS static - Secure Wireless Internet (ITS)
• US: TCIP - Secure Wireless Internet (ITS)

Project Operational Concepts:

Roles and Responsibilities

• Broward County Transit
• Provide operator instructions and receive schedule performance information from BCT vehicles while in service.
• Track and evaluate schedule performance on all Broward County Transit (BCT) vehicles.