Personal Information Access - Personal Information Access Functionality
Subsystem Description
The Personal Information Access Subsystem (PIAS) provides the capability for travelers to receive formatted traffic advisories from their homes, place of work, major trip generation sites, personal portable devices, over multiple types of electronic media. These capabilities 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 provides travelers with the capability to receive route planning from the infrastructure at fixed locations such as in their homes, their place of work, and at mobile locations using personal portable devices and vehicle-based devices. 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 also provides the capability to initiate a distress signal and cancel a prior-issued manual request for help.
Functional Area: Personal Basic Information Reception
Personal traveler interface that provides formatted traffic advisories, transit, event, and other traveler information, as well as broadcast alerts. Devices include personal computers and personal portable devices such as PDAs and pagers.
| ID | Requirement | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The personal traveler interface shall receive traffic information from a center and present it to the traveler. | Existing |
| 2 | The personal traveler interface shall receive transit information from a center and present it to the traveler. | Existing |
| 3 | The personal traveler interface shall receive event information from a center and present it to the traveler. | Existing |
| 4 | The personal traveler interface shall receive evacuation information from a center and present it to the traveler. | Planned |
| 5 | The personal traveler interface shall receive wide-area alerts and present it to the traveler. | Planned |
| 6 | The personal traveler interface shall provide the capability for digitized map data to act as the background to the information presented to the traveler. | Existing |
| 7 | The personal traveler interface shall support traveler input in audio or manual form. | Existing |
| 8 | The personal traveler interface shall present information to the traveler in audible or visual forms, consistent with a personal device. | Existing |
Functional Area: Personal Interactive Information Reception
Personal traveler interface that provides traffic, transit, yellow pages, event, and trip planning information, and other personalized traveler information services upon request. Devices include personal computers and personal portable devices such as PDAs.
| ID | Requirement | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The personal traveler interface shall receive traffic information from a center and present it to the traveler upon request. | Existing |
| 2 | The personal traveler interface shall receive transit information from a center and present it to the traveler upon request. | Existing |
| 4 | The personal traveler interface shall receive event information from a center and present it to the traveler upon request. | Existing |
| 5 | The personal traveler interface shall receive evacuation information from a center and present it to the traveler. | Planned |
| 6 | The personal traveler interface shall receive wide-area alerts and present it to the traveler. | Planned |
| 8 | The personal traveler interface shall support payment for services, such as confirmed trip plans, tolls, transit fares, parking lot charges, map updates, and advanced payment for tolls. | Planned |
| 9 | The personal traveler interface shall provide an interface through which credit identity, stored credit value, or traveler information may be collected from a traveler card being used by a traveler with a personal device. | Planned |
| 12 | The personal traveler interface shall support traveler input in audio or manual form. | Existing |
| 13 | The personal traveler interface shall present information to the traveler in audible or visual forms consistent with a personal device, and suitable for travelers with hearing and vision physical disabilities. | Existing |