South Central Regional

ITS Architecture

Definitions and Acronyms

South Central Region

Elements

Stakeholders

Regional Subsystem Interconnect Diagram

 Standards

Full Architecture Document

National ITS Architecture

Personal Information Access

This subsystem provides the capability for travelers to receive formatted traffic advisories from their homes, place of work, major trip generation sites, personal portable devices, and over multiple types of electronic media.  These capabilities shall also provide basic routing information and allow users to select those transportation modes that allow them to avoid congestion, or more advanced capabilities to allow users to specify those transportation parameters that are unique to their individual needs and receive travel information.  This subsystem shall provide capabilities to receive route planning from the infrastructure at fixed locations such as in their homes, their place of work, and at mobile locations such as from personal portable devices and in the vehicle or perform the route planning process at a mobile information access location.  In addition to end user devices, this subsystem may also represent a device that is used by a merchant or other service provider to receive traveler information and relay important information to their customers.  This subsystem shall also provide the capability to initiate a distress signal and cancel a prior issued manual request for help.

Elements

• Personal Traveler Information Devices

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