Miami-Dade SPAT Upgrade Roles and Responsibilities

This area includes all the roles and responsibilities that have been identified for the Miami-Dade SPAT Upgrade project.

Service Packages

• VS13: Intersection Safety Warning and Collision Avoidance (Miami-Dade SPaT Upgrade)
• SU04: Map Management (Miami-Dade SPaT Upgrade)
• SU08: Security and Credentials Management (Miami-Dade SPaT Upgrade)
• SU09: Device Certification and Enrollment (Miami-Dade SPaT Upgrade)

Stakeholders

• Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation and Public Works

Roles and Responsibilities

• Adjust signal timing patterns in response to incidents.
• Collect traffic and incident information, and provide it to the media and private travelers.
• Collect traffic data from sensors that are part of the traffic signal system.
• Coordinate and share traveler information with all other traveler information providers in the region.
• Coordinate emergency plans with county EOCs, and provide emergency transit services for evacuations, fires, and disasters, including re-entry.
• Coordinate emergency plans, and incident responses and resources with the county EOC/warning points.
• Coordinate evacuation and re-entry plans with the county EOC/warning point.
• Coordinate highway-rail intersection (HRI) signal adjustments.
• Coordinate incident response for incidents on or adjacent to county-owned roadways with public works departments, public safety agencies, and EOCs in surrounding counties and municipalities, including response for scheduled events.
• Coordinate maintenance and construction activities with other county and city maintenance, and the FDOT District 6 construction and maintenance section.
• Coordinate maintenance or construction requests from RTMCs.
• Coordinate maintenance resource response to incidents in the municipality with local public safety agencies.
• Coordinate maintenance resource response to incidents on county-owned roadways with county and local public safety agencies.
• Coordinate maintenance resources for incidents with the FDOT District 6 maintenance and construction operations, and other county and city maintenance and construction operations outside the District.
• Coordinate transit fare payment with other regional agencies.
• Coordinate transit information with the Miami-Dade Traffic Control Center.
• Coordinate transit schedules with other local transit agencies, particularly for transit connections at transit transfer points.
• Coordinate transit security incidents with the Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s Office.
• Coordinate with multimodal transportation agencies, including airports, commuter rail, and heavy rail.
• Coordinate with the Miami-Dade County Traffic Control Center for traffic signal priority.
• Coordinate with the Miami-Dade transit control center.
• Distribute maintenance and construction work plan information, and asset restrictions to regional traffic agencies, regional transit providers, regional emergency services, the media, private rail operations, and multimodal service providers.
• Interconnect with signal systems in adjacent jurisdictions in the future.
• Manage work zones for all county and city maintenance and construction activities, and monitor work zone safety with county and city field equipment and vehicles.
• Operate county and local drawbridge systems in conjunction with traffic signals.
• Operate traffic signal systems on county-owned arterials, as well as some municipal arterials.
• Perform maintenance for regional city and county ITS field equipment.
• Perform network surveillance for incident detection and verification, and send traffic/incident information and traffic images to local and county public safety agencies and EOCs.
• Provide a demand responsive bus transit plan to users/travelers using the MDTA Web site.
• Provide automated maintenance status information to county and city roadway maintenance and construction operations, and county and local equipment repair facilities from maintenance vehicles.
• Provide automated transit maintenance scheduling using automated vehicle condition reports on all MDTA vehicles in the future.
• Provide fixed-route and paratransit bus services; peoplemover services; and rail transit services for Miami-Dade County.
• Provide incident information to other traffic management and public safety agencies.
• Provide incident information to travelers on county-owned roadways using traffic information devices (e.g., DMS and HAR units), local ISPs, and Web sites.
• Provide incident information to travelers on municipal roadways using traffic information devices (e.g., DMS units), local ISPs, and Web sites.
• Provide maintenance and construction information to regional traffic operations and the traveling public using portable DMS equipment.
• Provide maintenance and construction information to the traveling public using roadside equipment (e.g., DMS and HAR devices) and traveler information systems.
• Provide maintenance resources in response to incidents on county-operated arterials.
• Provide maintenance resources in response to incidents on municipal arterials.
• Provide operator instructions and receive schedule performance data from MDTA vehicles while in service.
• Provide signal preemption for emergency vehicles.
• Provide signal priority for transit vehicles.
• Provide traffic and road network information to local transit agencies, including the MDTA.
• Provide traffic information to travelers using Miami-Dade County DMS equipment.
• Provide traffic information to travelers using the county public information system, private companies, Florida 511, and the media.
• Provide transit passenger electronic fare payment on all MDTA vehicles and include smart card fare coordination with other regional transit agencies.
• Provide transit schedule and fare information via the Miami-Dade Transit Customer Information System.
• Receive AVL information from county and city public works vehicles.
• Receive maintenance resource requests for incident response from county fire/EMS/sheriff, local police/fire/EMS, the FHP, 911 emergency call centers, and county EOCs.
• Receive maintenance resource requests for incident response from the regional county and city traffic management systems.
• Receive road weather information from field equipment.
• Track and evaluate schedule performance on all MDTA vehicles.



• Travelers

Roles and Responsibilities

• Install and operate invehicle CAV equipment.



• FDOT CO

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide SCMS services.