Palm Beach County TSMO Program

Project Description: TSM&O Program. Monitor travel times on arterials, identify congestion, incidents and perform active arterial management – initiated in 2013, funded by FDOT.

Project Status: Planned

Project Stakeholders:

• Counties and Cities
• Palm Beach County Engineering Department

Project Service Packages:

• TM02: Vehicle-Based Traffic Surveillance (Palm Beach County)
• TM03: Traffic Signal Control (Palm Beach County Traffic Division)

Project Information Flows:

Information Flow	Source Element	Destination Element	Status
signal control commands	Palm Beach County TMC	Palm Beach County Field Equipment	Planned
signal control device configuration	Palm Beach County TMC	Palm Beach County Field Equipment	Planned
signal control plans	Palm Beach County TMC	Palm Beach County Field Equipment	Planned
signal control status	Palm Beach County Field Equipment	Palm Beach County TMC	Planned
signal fault data	Palm Beach County Field Equipment	Palm Beach County TMC	Planned
signal system configuration	Palm Beach County TMC	Palm Beach County Field Equipment	Planned
speed monitoring information	Palm Beach County Field Equipment	Palm Beach County TMC	Planned
traffic detector control	Palm Beach County TMC	Palm Beach County Field Equipment	Planned
traffic detector data	Palm Beach County Field Equipment	Palm Beach County TMC	Planned
traffic images	Palm Beach County Field Equipment	Palm Beach County TMC	Planned
work plan feedback	Palm Beach County TMC	County and City Roadway Maintenance and Construction Systems	Planned

Project Functional Requirements (Element - Functional Object):

• County and City Roadway Maintenance and Construction Systems - MCM Incident Management
• 3: The maintenance center shall exchange incident and threat information with emergency management centers as well as traffic management centers; including notification of existence of incident and expected severity, location, time and nature of incident.


• Palm Beach County 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.
• 5: The field element shall return sensor and CCTV system fault data to the controlling center for repair.


• Palm Beach County Field Equipment - Roadway Field Management Station Operation
• 1: The field element shall accept configuration information from the center.
• 2: The field element shall pass data provided by the center to local field devices and report data from the field devices back to the center.


• Palm Beach County Field Equipment - Roadway Signal Control
• 1: The field element shall control traffic signals under center control.
• 4: The field element shall report the current signal control information to the center.
• 5: The field element shall report current preemption status to the center.
• 6: The field element shall return traffic signal controller operational status to the center.
• 7: The field element shall return traffic signal controller fault data to the center.
• 8: The field element shall report current transit priority status to the center.


• Palm Beach County Field Equipment - RSE Situation Monitoring
• 1: The field element shall collect traffic-related data including snapshots of measured speed and heading and events including starts and stops, speed changes, and other vehicle control from vehicles.


• Palm Beach County TMC - TIC Situation Data Management
• 1: The center shall collect traffic probe data (speeds, travel times, etc.) from appropriately equipped vehicles and short range communications equipment.


• Palm Beach County TMC - TMC Basic Surveillance
• 2: The center shall monitor, analyze, and distribute traffic images from CCTV systems under remote control of the center.
• 7: The center shall remotely control devices to detect traffic.


• Palm Beach County TMC - TMC Roadway Equipment Monitoring
• 1: The center shall collect and store sensor (traffic, pedestrian, multimodal crossing) operational status.
• 2: The center shall collect and store CCTV surveillance system (traffic, pedestrian) operational status.
• 3: The center shall collect and store sensor (traffic, pedestrian, multimodal crossing) fault data and send to the maintenance center for repair.
• 4: The center shall collect and store CCTV surveillance system (traffic, pedestrian) fault data send to the maintenance center for repair.


• Palm Beach County TMC - TMC Signal Control
• 1: The center shall remotely control traffic signal controllers.
• 10: The center shall adjust signal timing in respond to a signal prioritization, signal preemption, pedestrian call, multi-modal crossing activation, or other requests for right-of-way.
• 3: The center shall collect traffic signal controller operational status and compare against the control information sent by the center.
• 4: The center shall collect traffic signal controller fault data from the field.
• 5: The center shall manage (define, store and modify) control plans to coordinate signalized intersections, to be engaged at the direction of center personnel or according to a daily schedule.
• 6: The center shall implement control plans to coordinate signalized intersections based on data from sensors.


• Palm Beach County TMC - TMC Situation Data Management
• 1: The center shall collect traffic probe data from vehicles via roadside field equipment.

Standards:

• (None-Data) - Secure Internet (ITS)
• US: NTCIP Signal System Masters - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: NTCIP Traffic Signal - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: NTCIP Transportation Sensors - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: NTCIP Warning Device - SNMPv3/TLS

Project Operational Concepts:

Roles and Responsibilities

• Palm Beach County Engineering Department
• Collect traffic data from the traffic signal system sensors.
• Operate traffic signal systems on county-owned arterials, as well as some municipal arterials.