City of Tampa ATMS Expansion

Project Description: Expand the City of Tampa ATMS by adding incident management, emergency management, and traveler information services and also by adding additinal intersections to the ATMS software. The project will also improve existing connection to City of Tampa Police to provide access to DMS and detector information.

Project Status: Planned

Project Stakeholders:

• City of Tampa Police Department
• City of Tampa Smart Mobility Division
• Counties and Cities
• FDOT District 7
• Local Agencies
• Local Media
• NOAA

Project Service Packages:

• TM03: Traffic Signal Control (City of Tampa)
• WX01: Weather Data Collection (City of Tampa)
• PS01: Emergency Call-Taking and Dispatch (City of Tampa ATMS Expansion)
• TM08: Traffic Incident Management System (City of Tampa ATMS Expansion)
• TM06: Traffic Information Dissemination (City of Tampa ATMS Expansion)
• TM01: Infrastructure-Based Traffic Surveillance (City of Tampa ATMS Expansion)
• TM07: Regional Traffic Management (City of Tampa ATMS Expansion)

Project Information Flows:

Information Flow	Source Element	Destination Element	Status
device control request	City of Tampa TMC	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	Ongoing
device control request	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
device data	City of Tampa TMC	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	Ongoing
device data	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
device status	City of Tampa TMC	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	Ongoing
device status	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
environmental conditions data	City of Tampa TMC	County and City Roadway Maintenance and Construction Systems	Ongoing
environmental conditions data	City of Tampa TMC	National Hurricane Center Info. System	Ongoing
environmental conditions data	City of Tampa TMC	National Weather Service	Ongoing
environmental conditions data status	National Hurricane Center Info. System	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
environmental conditions data status	National Weather Service	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
environmental sensor control	City of Tampa TMC	City of Tampa Field Equipment	Ongoing
environmental sensor data	City of Tampa Field Equipment	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
incident information	City of Tampa TMC	County and City Roadway Maintenance and Construction Systems	Ongoing
incident information	City of Tampa TMC	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	Ongoing
incident information	City of Tampa TMC	Local EOCs	Ongoing
incident information	County and City Roadway Maintenance and Construction Systems	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
incident information	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
incident information	Local EOCs	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
incident response status	Local EOCs	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
maint and constr resource request	City of Tampa TMC	County and City Roadway Maintenance and Construction Systems	Ongoing
maint and constr resource response	County and City Roadway Maintenance and Construction Systems	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
maint and constr work plans	County and City Roadway Maintenance and Construction Systems	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
resource deployment status	City of Tampa TMC	Local EOCs	Ongoing
resource request	Local EOCs	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
right-of-way request notification	City of Tampa Field Equipment	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
road network conditions	City of Tampa TMC	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	Ongoing
road network conditions	City of Tampa TMC	Local EOCs	Ongoing
road network conditions	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
road weather information	County and City Roadway Maintenance and Construction Systems	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
roadway dynamic signage data	City of Tampa TMC	City of Tampa Field Equipment	Ongoing
roadway dynamic signage status	City of Tampa Field Equipment	City of Tampa Police Dispatch	Ongoing
roadway dynamic signage status	City of Tampa Field Equipment	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
signal control commands	City of Tampa TMC	City of Tampa Field Equipment	Ongoing
signal control device configuration	City of Tampa TMC	City of Tampa Field Equipment	Ongoing
signal control plans	City of Tampa TMC	City of Tampa Field Equipment	Ongoing
signal control status	City of Tampa Field Equipment	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
signal fault data	City of Tampa Field Equipment	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
signal system configuration	City of Tampa TMC	City of Tampa Field Equipment	Ongoing
traffic detector control	City of Tampa TMC	City of Tampa Field Equipment	Ongoing
traffic detector data	City of Tampa Field Equipment	City of Tampa Police Dispatch	Ongoing
traffic detector data	City of Tampa Field Equipment	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
traffic images	City of Tampa Field Equipment	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
traffic images	City of Tampa TMC	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	Ongoing
traffic images	City of Tampa TMC	Local EOCs	Ongoing
traffic images	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
traffic information for media	City of Tampa TMC	Newspapers, Radio, Television Stations	Ongoing
video surveillance control	City of Tampa TMC	City of Tampa Field Equipment	Ongoing
weather information	National Hurricane Center Info. System	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
weather information	National Weather Service	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing
work plan feedback	City of Tampa TMC	County and City Roadway Maintenance and Construction Systems	Ongoing
work zone information	County and City Roadway Maintenance and Construction Systems	City of Tampa TMC	Ongoing

Project Functional Requirements (Element - Functional Object):

• City of Tampa 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.


• City of Tampa Field Equipment - Roadway Environmental Monitoring
• 2: The field element shall include environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
• 4: The field element's environmental sensors shall be remotely controlled by a traffic management center.


• City of Tampa Field Equipment - Roadway Signal Control
• 1: The field element shall control traffic signals under center control.


• City of Tampa Field Equipment - Roadway Traffic Information Dissemination
• 1: The field element shall include dynamic message signs for dissemination of traffic and other information to drivers, under center control; the DMS may be either those that display variable text messages, or those that have fixed format display(s) (e.g. vehicle restrictions, or lane open/close).


• City of Tampa Field Equipment - RSE Environmental Monitoring
• 3: The field element shall collect environmental monitoring data from sensors, including ambient air quality, emissions, temperature, precipitation, and other road weather information.


• City of Tampa Police Dispatch - Emergency Call-Taking
• 1: The emergency call-taking center shall support the interface to the Emergency Telecommunications System (e.g. 911 or 7-digit call routing) to receive emergency notification information and provide it to the emergency system operator.
• 2: The emergency call-taking center shall receive emergency call information from 911 services and present the possible incident information to the emergency system operator.


• City of Tampa Police Dispatch - Emergency Dispatch
• 4: The center shall track the location and status of emergency vehicles responding to an emergency based on information from the emergency vehicle.


• City of Tampa Police Dispatch - Emergency Incident Command
• 1: The center shall provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration for first responders to support local management of an incident.
• 2: The center shall provide incident command communications with public safety, emergency management, transportation, and other allied response agency centers.


• City of Tampa Police Dispatch - Emergency Response Management
• 1: The center shall provide strategic emergency response capabilities provided by an Emergency Operations Center for large-scale incidents and disasters.
• 3: The center shall provide the capability to implement response plans and track progress through the incident by exchanging incident information and response status with allied agencies.


• City of Tampa TMC - Emergency Call-Taking
• 1: The emergency call-taking center shall support the interface to the Emergency Telecommunications System (e.g. 911 or 7-digit call routing) to receive emergency notification information and provide it to the emergency system operator.
• 2: The emergency call-taking center shall receive emergency call information from 911 services and present the possible incident information to the emergency system operator.


• City of Tampa TMC - Emergency Response Management
• 4: The center shall develop, coordinate with other agencies, and store emergency response plans.


• City of Tampa TMC - TMC Basic Surveillance
• 1: The center shall monitor, analyze, and store traffic sensor data (speed, volume, occupancy) collected from field elements under remote control of the center.
• 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.


• City of Tampa TMC - TMC Environmental Monitoring
• 1: The traffic center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure road surface conditions including temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other measures.


• City of Tampa TMC - TMC Incident Detection
• 2: The center shall collect and store traffic flow and image data from the field equipment to detect and verify incidents.


• City of Tampa TMC - TMC Incident Dispatch Coordination
• 1: The center shall exchange alert information and status with emergency management centers. The information includes notification of a major emergency such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, or child abduction for distribution to the public. The information may include the alert originator, the nature of the emergency, the geographic area affected by the emergency, the effective time period, and information and instructions necessary for the public to respond to the alert. This may also identify specific information that should not be released to the public.
• 4: The center shall exchange incident information with emergency management centers, maintenance and construction centers, transit centers, information service providers, and the media including description, location, traffic impact, status, expected duration, and response information.


• City of Tampa TMC - TMC Regional Traffic Management
• 1: The center shall exchange traffic information with other traffic management centers including incident information, congestion data, traffic data, signal timing plans, and real-time signal control information.
• 2: The center shall exchange traffic control information with other traffic management centers to support remote monitoring and control of traffic management devices (e.g. signs, sensors, signals, cameras, etc.).


• City of Tampa 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.
• 5: The center shall collect environmental sensor operational status.


• City of Tampa TMC - TMC Signal Control
• 1: The center shall remotely control traffic signal controllers.
• 14: The center shall support requests from emergency management centers to provide responding emergency vehicles with signal preemption.


• City of Tampa TMC - TMC Traffic Information Dissemination
• 1: The center shall remotely control dynamic messages signs for dissemination of traffic and other information to drivers.


• 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.
• 6: The maintenance center shall exchange road network status assessment information with emergency management and traffic management centers including an assessment of damage sustained by the road network including location and extent of the damage, estimate of remaining capacity, required closures, alternate routes, necessary restrictions, and time frame for repair and recovery.


• FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center - TMC Regional Traffic Management
• 1: The center shall exchange traffic information with other traffic management centers including incident information, congestion data, traffic data, signal timing plans, and real-time signal control information.
• 2: The center shall exchange traffic control information with other traffic management centers to support remote monitoring and control of traffic management devices (e.g. signs, sensors, signals, cameras, etc.).


• Local EOCs - Emergency Call-Taking
• 1: The emergency call-taking center shall support the interface to the Emergency Telecommunications System (e.g. 911 or 7-digit call routing) to receive emergency notification information and provide it to the emergency system operator.
• 2: The emergency call-taking center shall receive emergency call information from 911 services and present the possible incident information to the emergency system operator.


• Local EOCs - Emergency Dispatch
• 1: The center shall dispatch emergency vehicles to respond to verified emergencies under center personnel control.


• Local EOCs - Emergency Response Management
• 1: The center shall provide strategic emergency response capabilities provided by an Emergency Operations Center for large-scale incidents and disasters.

Standards:

• (None-Data) - Secure Internet (ITS)
• US: ATIS - Secure Internet (ITS)
• US: NTCIP Environmental Sensors - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: NTCIP Message Sign - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: NTCIP Signal Priority - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: NTCIP Signal System Masters - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: NTCIP Traffic Signal - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: NTCIP Transportation Sensors - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: NTCIP Video Switches - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: TMDD - NTCIP Messaging
• US: WZDx - Guaranteed Secure Internet (ITS)
• US: WZDx - Secure Internet (ITS)

Project Operational Concepts:

Roles and Responsibilities

• NOAA
• Provides daily weather forecasts, sever storm warnings and other weather related information that are used in surface transportation weather codition prediction.


• Local Media
• Collect traffic information, travel conditions, incident information and other transportation information and provides the information to the travelling public.


• Counties and Cities
• Collect and archive traffic information from roadway sensors.
• Coordinate roadway maintenance and construction.


• Local Agencies
• Coordinate emergency plans, incident responses, and resources with the county EOC/warning points and local EOCs.
• Coordinate maintenance resource response to incidents in the municipality with local public safety agencies.
• Provide maintenance resources in response to incidents on municipally operated arterials.
• Receive incident information, traffic images and roadway network conditions from municipal and county TMCs.


• FDOT District 7
• Coordinate incident response with county and local PWDs, including responses during scheduled events.
• Coordinate regional traffic operations through controlling and accessing data of local agencies' ITS devices.
• Coordinate regional traffic operations through sharing of FDOT ITS devices' control and data.
• Coordinate traffic information with county and local TMCs.
• Operate and coordinate traffic control devices, traffic sensors, and CCTVs on FDOT freeways, including the ability to control traffic on overflow ramps.


• City of Tampa Smart Mobility Division
• Coordinate emergency plans, incident responses, and resources with the county EOC/warning points and local EOCs.
• Coordinate evacuation and reentry plans with the county EOC/warning points and local EOCs.
• Coordinate incident response for incidents on or adjacent to county-owned roadways with PWDs, public safety agencies, and EOCs in surrounding counties and municipalities, including scheduled event responses.
• Coordinate traffic information with FDOT District 7 and adjoining cities.
• Obtain traffic images and traffic flow data from City of Tampa CCTVs and field sensors, and maintain operational control of all field equipment.
• Operate traffic signal systems on city-owned arterials.
• Provide incident information to other traffic management and public safety agencies.
• Receive road weather information from field equipment.


• City of Tampa Police Department
• Coordinate emergency plans, incident responses, and resources with the City of Tampa.
• Obtain traffic flow data from City of Tampa field sensors and access the City of Tampa DMS.