Inventory
Each stakeholder agency, company, or group owns, operates, maintains or plans ITS systems in the region. The Regional ITS Architecture inventory is a list of "elements" that represent all existing and planned ITS systems in a region as well as non-ITS systems that provide information to or get information from the ITS systems.
| Element | Description |
|---|---|
| 3rd Party Traffic Data | Providers of transportation information (such as INRIX) that sell their data to transportation agencies. These data providers often include historical and real-time traffic flow data. |
| Air and Sea Ports | Coordination with air and sea ports to provide traveler information and to coordinate during incidents. |
| Alerting and Advisory Systems | Federal, state and local emergency alert systems. Includes Amber Alert, etc. |
| Archived Data Warehouse | WSDOT plans to implement a statewide archived data warehouse and SWR WSDOT will coordinate with |
| ARROWS Maintenance Support Tool | The ARROWS system is a decision-support tool for maintenance activity planning. |
| Asset Management | This terminator represents the systems that support decision-making for maintenance, upgrade, and operation of physical transportation assets. Asset management integrates and includes the pavement management systems, bridge management systems, and other systems that inventory and manage the highway infrastructure and other transportation-related assets. |
| City of Camas Roadside Equipment | City of Camas owns roadside equipment. |
| City of Vancouver Maintenance and Construction | Maintenance and construction department for the City of Vancouver |
| City of Vancouver Roadside Equipment | City of Vancouver roadside equipement include central signal control software for city signals, and other roadside devices. |
| City of Vancouver Traffic Management Center | Manges traffic signals and aterial operations within the City of Vancouver |
| Clark County Maintenance and Construction | Maintenance and construction department for Clark County. |
| Clark County Roadside Equipment | Include traffic signals owned by Clark County controlled from a central traffic signal system |
| Clark County Traffic Management Center | Manages traffic signals and corridor operations within the County |
| Commercial Vehicle Administration | CVISN program for electronic credentialing of commercial vehicles. |
| Commercial Vehicle Check | Roadside AVI and Weigh-In-Motion systems and safety checks at Kelso and Ridgefield. |
| Commercial Vehicle Drivers | CV drivers are pre-screened to participate in programs such as FAST. |
| Commercial Vehicles | Commercial Vehicle onboard systems. |
| CRESA Emergency Operations Center | 911 Public safety access point (PSAP) for Clark County that coordinates emergency response. Coordinatates with the Statewide Emergency Operations Center in the event of large-scale emergencies. |
| C-TRAN Dispatcher | C-TRAN bus dispatchers use CAD/AVL to dispatch transit vehicles and provide transit service |
| C-TRAN Driver | C-TRAN vehicles interact with the C-TRAN transit vehicle to communicate with bus dispatchers in the Operations Center. |
| C-TRAN Transit Operations Center | C-TRAN include computer aided dispatching (CAD) to manage their fixed route fleet. |
| C-TRAN Transit Vehicles | C-TRAN vehicles include AVL, APC, ASA and other CAD/AVL software |
| C-TRAN Traveler Information Systems | C-TRAN is working with TriMet to coordinate regional Trip Planning between the two transit agencies. C-TRAN currently operates an agency specific trip planning website. |
| Department of Licensing | The Department of Licensing is a partner in CVISN, and provide registration information for toll violations processing. |
| Emergency Transportation Coordination Center (ETCC) | A coordination center for WSDOT, Washington State Patrol and FHWA that will be active in times of a major transportation emergency |
| Fare Payment Clearinghouse | This terminator represents the organization that handles all electronic fund transfer requests to enable the transfer of funds from the user of the service to the provider of the service. This would include potential future toll fares. In the future, the clearinghouse may also handle freight fees, such as CVISN fees and overweight permits. |
| Federal Emergency Management Agencies | These agencies interface with local emergency responders in major emergencies. |
| Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration | Administrators of the SAFER commercial vehicle safety check database, which provides information to CVISN. |
| Fleet and Freight Management | Private commercial vehicle fleet and freight management. |
| Freight Equipment | This terminator includes external equipment installed on commercial vehicles, such as eSeals, that provides quipment safety data and status and can alert the appropriate systems of an incident, breach, or tamper event. |
| Incident Reponse Vehicles | IRT is a trained group of maintenance employees who respond to traffic incidents on state roadways. Whether assisting stranded motorist, or responding to a collision, snowstorm or disaster, their mission is to work in partnership with the Washington State Patrol and other responders to quickly clear roads and help drivers. They restore normal traffic flow as safely and quickly as possible. |
| Infrastructure and Facilities Security Monitoring | WSDOT has identified critical infrastructure (bridges, ferries, etc.) in need of security monitoring. WSDOTand WSP also provides security monitoring at facilities such as park and ride lots. |
| Local Agency Roadside Equipment | SWR operates and/or maintains some local agencies signals and has access to information from some local agency devices such as cameras. This includes (but is not limited to): Cities of Chehalis, Centralia, Kelso, Napavine, Camas, Washougal, Battleground, Vancouver, and Clark County. |
| Local Emergency Response | City and Regional Emergency Management agencies, including local police and fire, CRESA, E-911, CAPCOM. |
| Local Maintenance and Construction | WSDOT may coordinate with local maintenance offices for road closures and construction advisories. |
| Local Transit Agencies | Multimodal coordination with local transit agencies. |
| Media | Local television and radio stations who receive and broadcast WSDOT traveler information, including camera images and incident reports. |
| Multimodal Crossings | Mutimodal crossings include drawbridges over roadways. ODOT operates and maintains the Interstate drawbridges between Washington and Oregon. |
| ODOT Region 1 Roadside Equipment | WSDOT has access to streaming ODOT camera images in ODOT Region 1 |
| ODOT Region 1 TMOC | ODOT's Region 1 Transportation Management and Operations Center is located in downtown Portland, Oregon. ODOT and WSDOT share real-time transportation information to monitor and manage traffic operations between the two states in the Portland/Vancouver metro area. Real-time information is accomplished via a fiber optic communication. Information shared between the traffic operation centers includes: real-time, streaming video images, traffic flow data, shared ATMS data, major traffic incidents, etc. |
| ODOT Traveler Information (TripCheck) | ODOT's Tripcheck and 511, border crossing information with Oregon, etc. WSDOT exchanges information with ODOT's TATTsystems in order to provide a broader reach of information to travelers. |
| Other Local Roadside Equipment | Includes other regional local roadside equipment |
| Other State CV Administration | Includes other traveler information ISP's such as ODOT's Tripcheck and 511, border crossing information with Canada, etc. WSDOT exchanges information with these systems in order to provide a broader reach of information to travelers. |
| Other Transit Agency Traveler Information Systems | Other Transit traveler information systems such as Transit Tracker, TriMet RTP (Regional Trip Planner). |
| Other Transit Operations Center | Dispatch center locations for other local transit agencies (I.e. TriMet) |
| Other Transit Vehicles | Transit vehicles with CAD/AVL technology installed (i.e. TriMet) |
| Other WSDOT TMC | This terminator is provided to show coordination between WSDOT regional traffic management centers. |
| Personal Information Access | Personal electronic devices used to access traveler information, including cell phones and PDAs. |
| PORTAL | Portland Regional Transportation Archive Listing (PORTAL) is a National ITS Architecture's Archived Data User Service for the Portland metropolitan region. The system was developed by students and faculty in the ITS Laboratory at Portland State University. PSU is work the Oregon Department of Transportation, Metro, the City of Portland, TriMet and other regional partners. Washington State provides real-time traffic flow information to ODOT which in turn is automatically archived in PORTAL. |
| Rail Operators | Rail operators in Washington include Union Pacific (UP), Burlington Northern-Santa Fe (BNSF) and Amtrak |
| Railroad Wayside Equipment | This terminator represents train interface equipment (usually) maintained and operated by the railroad and (usually) physically located at or near a grade crossing. This terminator is the source and destination for HRI information for, or about, approaching trains and their crews (e.g. the time at which the train will arrive and the time it will take to clear a crossing, crossing status or warnings, etc.). WSDOT would like to interface with this equipment to provide train crossing information to travelers. |
| Regional Incident Response Teams | IRT staff are a specially trained group of WSDOT maintenance employees who respond to blocking incidents on freeways and highways. |
| Regional Maintenance and Construction | WSDOT regional Maintenance Offices, responsible for maintenance and construction activities.Locates at Clark, Lewis, Pacific, Wahkiakum, Skamania, and Klickitat Counties. |
| Regional Maintenance and Construction Vehicles | WSDOT Regions dispatch maintenance and construction vehicles receive road conditions information from vehicles in the field. |
| Vehicle | Traveling vehicles that receive and transmit information to roadside devices. |
| Washington Emergency Operations Center | State emergency operations center |
| Washington State Patrol (WSP) Operations Center | WSDOT's Joint Operations Policy Statement (JOPS) with the Washington State Patrol endorses co-location of facilities and information sharing. The WSDOT Southwest Region has access to WSP Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) data, a program that is planned to expand to other regionas. WSP is also the enforcement agency for toll and CVO violations. |
| Washington State Patrol Vehicles | State Patrol vehicles |
| Weather Services | National weather service providing weather forecast information to supplement maintenance activity planning. |
| WSDOT SWR Roadside Equipment | Includes signals, cameras, DMS, HAR, environmental sensors, and other WSDOT ITS devices installed at the roadside. WSDOT may install TSP on signals to support C-TRAN as part of a pilot project. |
| WSDOT SWR Traffic Management Center | Traffic Management Center for the SWR, co-located with WSP |
| WSDOT Toll Administration | For the forseeable future, Tacoma Narrows Bridge will serve as the toll administration subystem for toll activities in Washington. These activities include a number of potential toll road projects plus the SR 167 HOT Lanes project. Additionally, the new Columbia River Crossing (CRC) bridge may possibly include tolling. |
| WSDOT Toll Collection | The Toll Collection subsystem includes the plaza and lane-level equipment that is deployed at Tacoma Narrows Bridge and possible future locations (i.e. CRC) or possible HOT lanes. |
| WSDOT Traveler Information | WSDOT real time traveler information system, providing traveler information via web (WSDOT CARS), 511, kiosks and cable TV. Includes ferry information. |