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 Data Distributors | Third–party distributors of transportation to users. |
| 3rd–Party Data Sources | 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. |
| Alerting and Advisory Systems | Federal, state and local emergency alert systems. Includes Amber Alert, etc. |
| Basic Vehicle | Travelers' vehicles not equipped with connected vehicle capabilities |
| City of Camas Field Equipment | City of Camas owns roadside equipment. |
| City of Vancouver Asset Management | |
| City of Vancouver CV RSE | Future connected vehicle roadside equipment (RSE), including radios, edge computing, and integration with central systems. |
| City of Vancouver EV Charging Station | Future EV charging stations for public and/or fleet vehicle charging installed at City–owned parking or other facilities. |
| City of Vancouver Field Equipment | City of Vancouver field equipement include signals, cameras, sensors, and other ITS devices installed at the roadside. Also includes existing smart streetlight infrastructure capable of dynamically changing brightness based on pedestrian push button activation. |
| City of Vancouver Field Maintenance Equipment | Mobile apps, laptops, and central monitoring tools for diagnosis and repair of field equipment. |
| City of Vancouver Field Personnel | City of Vancouver personnel performing maintenance and construction field activities. |
| City of Vancouver Loc and Time Data Source | GPS–based location and time data source used for City of Vancouver vehicle tracking |
| City of Vancouver Maintenance System | Maintenance and construction department for the City of Vancouver |
| City of Vancouver Maintenance Vehicle | City maintenance vehicles equipped with AVL |
| City of Vancouver Managed Parking Facilities | City–owned parking facilities that may be outfitted in the future with monitoring and management equipment. |
| City of Vancouver Parking Management | Potential future parking management system for coordinating and monitoring agency parking facilities. |
| City of Vancouver Parking Payment Clearinghouse | Potential future payment processing function to support future parking facility management |
| City of Vancouver Payment Administration | Potential future payment administration function to support electronic payments for future parking facilities |
| City of Vancouver Personnel Device | Smartphone–type devices carried by City maintenance and construction personnel in the field. Used for asset inventory tracking. Also representing potential future CV–based safety devices for maintenance and construction personnel to provide safety messages and warnings of vehicle intrusions in work zones. |
| City of Vancouver Traffic Management Center | City's TMC to manage traffic signals and aterial operations within the City of Vancouver. |
| Clark County Asset Management | |
| Clark County CV Data Distribution System | Trafficware Tidal Wave |
| Clark County CV Map Update System | |
| Clark County CV RSE | Includes existing DSRC–based connected vehicle roadside equipment (RSE). Potential future C–V2X expansion, to include radios, edge computing, and integration with central systems. |
| Clark County CV Service Monitor System | |
| Clark County CV Test Vehicle | Existing County vehicles equipped with DSRC technology to demonstrate and test CV applications. |
| Clark County Data Archive Servers | |
| Clark County EV Charging Station | Future EV charging stations for public and/or fleet vehicle charging installed at County–owned parking or other facilities. |
| Clark County Field Equipment | Include traffic signals owned by Clark County controlled from a central traffic signal system |
| Clark County Field Maintenance Equipment | Mobile apps, laptops, and central monitoring tools for diagnosis and repair of field equipment. |
| Clark County Field Personnel | County personnel performing maintenance and construction field activities. |
| Clark County Loc and Time Data Source | GPS–based location and time data source used for Clark County vehicle tracking |
| Clark County Maintenance Center | Maintenance and construction department for Clark County. |
| Clark County Maintenance Vehicle | County maintenance vehicles equipped with AVL |
| Clark County Managed Parking Facilities | County–owned parking facilities that may be outfitted in the future with monitoring and management equipment. |
| Clark County Parking Management | Potential future parking management system for coordinating and monitoring agency parking facilities. |
| Clark County Payment Administration | Future payment administration center (for EV charging payment processing) |
| Clark County Personnel Device | Smartphone–type devices carried by County maintenance and construction personnel in the field. Used for asset inventory tracking. Also representing potential future CV–based safety devices for maintenance and construction personnel to provide safety messages and warnings of vehicle intrusions in work zones. |
| Clark County Traffic Operations Center | County's traffic operations center (TOC), which currently operates unstaffed, providing remote access. Future enhancements include center–to–center communications and c ontrol. |
| Connected Vehicle | Travelers' vehicles equipped with connected vehicle technologies |
| 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 EV Charging Station | Potential future EV charging equipment located in C–TRAN public parking facilities to support travelers' EV charging needs as well as EV charging equipment for fleet vehicle charging. |
| C–TRAN Loc and Time Data Source | GPS–based location and time data source used for C–TRAN vehicle tracking |
| C–TRAN Managed Parking Facilities | C–TRAN–owned parking facilities that may be outfitted in the future with monitoring and management equipment. |
| C–TRAN Paratransit Vehicle | |
| C–TRAN Parking Management | Potential future parking management system for coordinating and monitoring agency parking facilities. |
| C–TRAN Payment Administration | Fare payment administration and processing center. Coordinates with TriMet on Hop Fastpas electronic payment |
| C–TRAN Security Monitoring Equipment | |
| C–TRAN Transit Operations Center | C–TRAN's TOC includes 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. |
| C–TRAN Traveler Support Equipment | Kiosks, Message Boards |
| C–TRAN Vehicle Operator | |
| Cyclist | |
| DMV | The Department of Motor Vehicles, responsible for registering vehicles. Provides registration information for toll and other violations processing. |
| Driver | |
| Event Promoter System | Represents interfaces with event promoters who may provide event information, such as date, time, duration, location. |
| 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. |
| Future Joint Operations ICM System | Future jointly–operated system to provide integrated corridor management (ICM) and active traffic management (ATM) services for key regional corridors. |
| Future Other State RUC Admin Center | Potential future Oregon (and other state's) Road Use Charging (RUC) platform for administering statewide RUC program and coordinating with Washington's potential future RUC system. |
| Future Regional CV Data Distribution System | |
| Future Regional Data Lake | Clark County–led data lake development to capture real–time operational transportation data and provide operationa performance management services. Currently for Clark County data only, but may migrate to a regional/jointly operated system. |
| Future Washington State RUC Admin Center | Potential future Road Use Charging (RUC) platform for administering Washington statewide RUC program and coordinating with other states' potential future RUC systems. |
| 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 Care Facilities | Hospitals and other care facilties. |
| Local Emergency Responder Personnel | Local police, fire, and emergency medical services personnel who perform emergency response activities at an incident site on local streets and on freeways and highways. |
| Local Emergency Responder Personnel Device | Devices used by emergency personnel in the field. Includes body cameras or smartphones (and their peripherals) that can be used to provide images or video as well as send or receive data regarding the incident. |
| Local Emergency Responder Vehicles | |
| 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. |
| Motor Carrier Driver ID Card | Represents a card or device that enables the transfer of electornic identification information for a driver. |
| Motor Carrier Fleet and Freight Management | Private commercial vehicle fleet and freight management. |
| Motor Carrier Freight Equipment | Includes external equipment installed on commercial vehicles, such as eSeals, that provide equipment safety data and status and can alert the appropriate systems of an incident, breach, or tamper event. |
| Motor Carrier Vehicle Drivers | CV drivers are pre–screened to participate in programs such as FAST. |
| Motor Carrier Vehicles | Commercial Vehicle onboard systems. |
| Multimodal Crossings | Mutimodal crossings include drawbridges over roadways. ODOT operates and maintains the Interstate drawbridges between Washington and Oregon. |
| 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 Tolling Administration | ODOT tolling system. Coordination with WSDOT on bi–state travel. |
| 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 CVs | Representation of other Connected Vehicles (terminator) to demonstrate V2V comms. |
| Other Local Emergency Response | City and Regional Emergency Management agencies, including local police and fire, CRESA, E–911, CAPCOM. |
| Other Local Roadside Equipment | Includes other regional local roadside equipment |
| Other State CMV Administration | |
| 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) |
| Pedestrian | |
| Port of Vancouver Terminal | |
| 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. |
| Potential Obstacles (Environment) | |
| 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 CV Data Distribution System | |
| Roadway (Environment) | |
| Shared Use Vehicle | TNC or other Shared Use vehicle |
| SWR Joint Operations Center | Planned regional joint operations center to include multiple workstations and video monitors for managing the area's traffic. Sopporting both physical and virtual access by agency partners. |
| TNC Management and Dispatch System | Potential integration opportunity with Transportation Network Company (TNC) or other shared–use mobility service provider, or agency's own shared use transportation service |
| Transit App Transit Information System | The third–party Transit App platform, which is C–TRAN's official partner for providing mobile trip planning and real–time transit information to riders. |
| Traveler | |
| Traveler Payment Card | Travelers' payment card or other electronic device used to provide electronic payment |
| Traveler Personal Information Device | Travelers' personal electronic devices used to access traveler information, including smart phones |
| TriMet Transit Operations Center | |
| Vehicle (Environment) | |
| Vulnerable Road User (Environment) | |
| 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 Personnel Device | Devices used by WSP personnel in the field. Includes body cameras or smartphones (and their peripherals) that can be used to provide images or video as well as send or receive data regarding the incident. |
| Washington State Patrol Response Personnel | WSP personnel who perform emergency response activities at an incident site on freeways and highways. |
| Washington State Patrol Vehicles | State Patrol vehicles |
| Weather Services | National weather service providing weather forecast information to supplement maintenance activity planning. |
| WSDOT Archived Data Warehouse | WSDOT plans to implement a statewide archived data warehouse; SWR WSDOT to coordinate with |
| WSDOT CVISN CommVeh Administration | WSDOT Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (CVISN) program for electronic credentialing of commercial vehicles. |
| WSDOT CVISN Electronic Screening Equipment | Weigh–in–motion, roadside AVI, safety checks, and other commercial vehicle inspection equipment and facilities (ex. at Kelso and Ridgefield) |
| WSDOT 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 |
| WSDOT 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. |
| WSDOT Other Regions TMCs | This terminator is provided to show coordination between WSDOT regional traffic management centers. |
| WSDOT SWR CV Map Update System | |
| WSDOT SWR CV RSE | Includes existing DSRC–based connected vehicle roadside equipment (RSE). Potential future C–V2X expansion, to include radios, edge computing, and integration with central systems. |
| WSDOT SWR CV Service Monitor System | |
| WSDOT SWR EV Charging Station | Future EV charging stations for public and/or fleet vehicle charging installed at WSDOT–owned parking or other facilities. |
| WSDOT SWR Field Equipment | Includes signals, cameras, DMS, HAR, environmental sensors, and other WSDOT ITS devices installed at the roadside. |
| WSDOT SWR Field Maintenance Equipment | Mobile apps, laptops, and central monitoring tools for diagnosis and repair of field equipment. |
| WSDOT SWR Field Personnel | WSDOT personnel performing maintenance and construction field activities. |
| WSDOT SWR 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. |
| WSDOT SWR Incident Response Personnel | WSDOT SWR Incident Response personnel responsible for towing, service patrol, and other response activities at an incident site on freeways and highways. |
| WSDOT SWR Incident Response Personnel Device | Devices used by WSDOT SWR Incident Response personnel in the field. Includes body cameras or smartphones (and their peripherals) that can be used to provide images or video as well as send or receive data regarding the incident. |
| WSDOT SWR Incident Response Team | WSDOT SWR Incident Response Team (IRT). manage and dispatch IRT vehciles and personnel to respond to blicking incidents on freeways and highways. |
| WSDOT SWR 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. |
| WSDOT SWR Loc and Time Data | GPS–based location and time data source used for WSDOT SWR vehicle tracking |
| WSDOT SWR Maintenance and Asset Mgmt | WSDOT SWR Maintenance Offices, responsible for maintenance and construction activities and dispatching maintenance and construction vehicles. The Region usese the ARROWS Maintenance Support Tool to provide decision support for maintenance activity planning. system is a decision–support tool for maintenance activity planning. 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. |
| WSDOT SWR Maintenance and Construction Vehicles | WSDOT SWR maintenance and construction vehicles equipped with AVL. |
| WSDOT SWR Managed Parking Facilities | WSDOT–owned parking facilities that may be outfitted in the future with monitoring and management equipment. |
| WSDOT SWR Parking Management | Potential future parking management system for coordinating and monitoring agency parking facilities. |
| WSDOT SWR Payment Administration | Future payment administration center (for EV charging payment processing) |
| WSDOT SWR Personnel Device | Smartphone–type devices carried by WSDOT maintenance and construction personnel in the field. Used for asset inventory tracking. Also representing potential future CV–based safety devices for maintenance and construction personnel to provide safety messages and warnings of vehicle intrusions in work zones. WSDOT currently uses "LED Flares" safety devices for personnel in the field, which activate safety lighting patterns and are location–enabled for tracking purposes. |
| WSDOT SWR Regional Incident Response Vehicles | IRT staff are a specially trained group of WSDOT maintenance employees who respond to blocking incidents on freeways and highways. |
| WSDOT SWR Regional Video Distribution System | VDG Sense video distribution system co–implemented with Clark County |
| WSDOT SWR ROADS Traveler Info System | ROADS interfaces with other traveler information systems |
| WSDOT SWR Traffic Management Center | Traffic Management Center for the SWR, co–located with WSP |
| WSDOT Toll Collection Equipment | 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 Tolling Administration | Planned statewide tolling system. Tacoma Narrows Bridge operates a toll administration subystem. Planned system would integrate all existing and potential new toll roads, bridges, and HOT lanes. |
| WSDOT Traffic Code Center (Conceptual) | A center representing the authoritative source for statewide traffic rules, regulations, ordinances, and statues. Applicable only to service package VS17 Traffic Code Dissemination. |
| WSDOT Traveler Information | WSDOT real time traveler information system, providing traveler information via web (WSDOT CARS), 511, kiosks and cable TV. Includes ferry information. |