Personnel Work Zone Safety Functional Area

Description

'Personnel Work Zone Safety' improves maintenance and construction crew safety by providing crew location information to the infrastructure that can be used to avoid collisions involving the work crew. The application may also alert workers if they travel beyond the designated safe zone. The information provided and the user interface delivery mechanism (visual, audible, or haptic) can also be tailored to the needs of the user that is carrying or wearing the device that hosts the application.

Included In

City of Vancouver Personnel Device
Clark County Personnel Device
WSDOT SWR Personnel Device

Functional Requirements

IDRequirement
01The field element shall provide crew location information to the roadside field elements and connected maintenance and construction vehicles that can be used to avoid collisions involving the work crew.
02The field element shall use data input from the roadside or vehicles to alert workers of a work zone emergency or safety issue such as the intrusion of a vehicle into the work zone or movement of field personnel into the travel lanes. Alert could be visual, audible, or other means.