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
• 01: 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
• 01: The center shall collect time stamped vehicle identities from field equipment.
• 02: The center shall correlate the time stamped vehicle identities in order to calculate link travel times and derive other traffic measures.

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.