Central Ohio Regional ITS Architecture

Roles and Responsibilities

This page documents each stakeholder's current and future roles and responsibilities in the operation of the regional transportation system across a range of transportation services and related support services.

Area	Description
Commercial Vehicle Operations for Central Ohio Regional ITS Architecture	This area addresses the management of the efficiency, safety, and operation of commercial vehicle fleets and the movement of freight. It includes activities that expedite the authorization process for freight to move across national and other jurisdictional boundaries, activities that expedite inter–modal transfers of freight and the operation of freight vehicles that exchange information on the motor carrier, the vehicle, the driver, and, in some cases, the cargo to enhance freight operations and management.
Data Management for Central Ohio Regional ITS Architecture	This area addresses the management of data that can be used by some or all transportation agencies and other organizations to support transportation planning, performance monitoring, safety analysis, and research. Data are collected from detectors and sensors, connected vehicles, and operational data feeds from centers.
Emergency Management for Central Ohio Regional ITS Architecture	This area addresses the management by public safety agencies of emergencies in the transportation network including those relating to HAZMAT materials that are transported through the transportation network. It covers public safety (police, fire, and emergency medical services) agencies using emergency management services to improve their response to emergency situations. The area also addresses how emergency operations centers interact with transportation and public safety agencies to support response to disasters and for evacuations impacting the transportation network.
Freeway Management for Central Ohio Regional ITS Architecture	This area addresses the management of the movement of all types of vehicles and travelers throughout the freeway network. It deals with information collection, dissemination, and processing for the freeway system. It covers both automated monitoring and control activities as well as decision–making processes (both automated and manual) that address real–time incidents and other disturbances on the transportation network, as well as managing travel demand as needed to maintain overall mobility.
Incident Management for Central Ohio Regional ITS Architecture	This area addresses the management by public safety agencies of traffic incidents in the transportation network including those relating to HAZMAT materials that are transported through the transportation network. It covers public safety (police, fire, and emergency medical services) agencies using emergency management services to improve their response to traffic incidents.
Maintenance and Construction for Central Ohio Regional ITS Architecture	This area addresses the monitoring, maintaining, improving, and managing of the roadway physical condition and its associated infrastructure equipment, as well as the available resources necessary to conduct these activities. This area also includes work zone management and safety, and the dissemination of maintenance and construction activities to other centers.
Parking Management for Central Ohio Regional ITS Architecture	This area addresses the management of parking operations including both space management and the electronic payment for parking. This area supports communication and coordination between equipped parking facilities and regional coordination between parking facilities and traffic and transit management systems. It includes monitoring and managing parking spaces and in lots, garages, and other parking areas and facilities.
Security for Central Ohio Regional ITS Architecture	This area addresses security and reliability of communications between ITS devices. It covers security services that protect communications and preserve privacy, and the management services that support network management.
Surface Street Management for Central Ohio Regional ITS Architecture	This area addresses the management of the movement of all types of vehicles, travelers and pedestrians throughout the surface street network. It deals with information collection, dissemination, and processing for the surface streets. It covers both automated monitoring and control activities as well as decision–making processes (both automated and manual) that address real–time incidents and other disturbances on the transportation network, as well as managing travel demand as needed to maintain overall mobility.
Transit Services for Central Ohio Regional ITS Architecture	This area addresses the management, operations, maintenance and security of public transportation to enable them to provide transit services that operate in a timely and efficient manner, delivering operational information, including multimodal information to the operators and users. This area covers both fixed route and demand response systems, as well as those passenger rail systems operated by transit agencies.
Traveler Information for Central Ohio Regional ITS Architecture	This area addresses the provision of both static and dynamic information about the transportation network to users both prior to and during their trips. It includes information about multi–modal options and transfers and the status of other transportation modes for use by the users. Providing static and dynamic signage information directly to drivers through in–vehicle devices is also covered by this area.
Weather for Central Ohio Regional ITS Architecture	This area addresses activities that monitor and notify users and transportation network managers of weather and environmental conditions that have an impact on the road transportation network and its users.