City of Melbourne VDS

Project Description: City of Melbourne Bluetooth installations – Vehicle Detection System (VDS) (Bluetooth detector) installations in the City of Melbourne

Project Status: On-going

Project Stakeholders:

• City of Melbourne
• Travelers

Project Service Packages:

• TM01: Infrastructure-Based Traffic Surveillance (City of Melbourne VDS Projects)

Project Information Flows:

Information Flow	Source Element	Destination Element	Status
communications signature	Vehicle	City of Melbourne Field Equipment	On-going
traffic detector control	City of Melbourne Traffic Operations Center	City of Melbourne Field Equipment	On-going
traffic detector data	City of Melbourne Field Equipment	City of Melbourne Traffic Operations Center	On-going

Project Functional Requirements (Element - Functional Object):

• City of Melbourne Field Equipment - Roadway Passive Monitoring
• 1: The field element shall collect, process, and send data to the center to uniquely identify passing vehicles in order to support travel time measurement


• City of Melbourne Traffic Operations Center - TMC Passive Surveillance
• 1: The center shall collect time stamped vehicle identities from field equipment.
• 2: The center shall correlate the time stamped vehicle identities in order to calculate link travel times and derive other traffic measures.


• Vehicle - Vehicle Location Determination
• 2: The vehicle shall calculate the location from one or more data sources including positioning systems such as GPS, sensors that track vehicle movement, and maps used to determine the likely vehicle route.

Standards:

• (Data Not Needed) - Bluetooth
• US: NTCIP Transportation Sensors - SNMPv3/TLS

Project Operational Concepts:

Roles and Responsibilities

• City of Melbourne
• Detect traffic including individual vehicles.