AD3-ITS Virtual Data Warehouse (Service Package*)

Description

This service package provides the same broad access to multimodal, multidimensional data from varied data sources as in the ITS Data Warehouse service package, but provides this access using enhanced interoperability between physically distributed ITS archives that are each locally managed. Requests for data that are satisfied by access to a single repository in the ITS Data Warehouse service package are parsed by the local archive and dynamically translated to requests to remote archives which relay the data necessary to satisfy the request.

Service Package Graphic

ITS Data RepositoryVirtual Data Warehouse ServicesArchived Data ManagementArchived Data AdministratorArchived Data User SystemsOther Archivesarchive coordinationarchived data productsarchived data product requestsarchive management dataarchive management requests

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Includes Equipment Packages and Subsystems:

Includes Architecture Flows:

Source Architecture Flow Destination In Graphic
Archived Data Administrator archive management requests Archived Data Management Yes
Archived Data Management archive management data Archived Data Administrator Yes
Archived Data Management archived data products Indicates that the associated architecture flow either has been or will be addressed by ITS Standards Archived Data User Systems Yes
Archived Data Management archive coordination Other Archives Yes
Archived Data User Systems archived data product requests Indicates that the associated architecture flow either has been or will be addressed by ITS Standards Archived Data Management Yes
Other Archives archive coordination Archived Data Management Yes
    - This icon indicates that the associated architecture flow either has been or will be addressed by ITS Standards. Select the architecture flow for more information on relevant standards activities.

Associated Planning Factors and Goals

Planning Factor Goal
F. Enhance the integration and connectivity of the transportation system, across and between modes, for people and freight; Enhance the integration and connectivity of the transportation system

Associated Objective Categories

Objective Category
Integration: Transportation Data Collection

Associated Objectives and Performance Measures

Objective Performance Measure
Enhance planning with better data Amount of data gathered from ITS enhancements used in infrastructure and operations planning
Enhance planning with better data Number of planning activities using data from ITS systems
Enhance planning with better data Years of data in database that is easily searchable and extractable

 
Since the mapping between objectives and service packages is not always straight-forward and often situation-dependent, these mappings should only be used as a starting point. Users should do their own analysis to identify the best service packages for their region.

Related ITS Applications of ITS Taxonomy

Classification Category ITS Application Area ITS Application(s)
Intelligent Infrastructure Information Management Data Archiving

User Services related to this Service Package:

User Service
7.1 Archived Data

Transaction Set Diagram





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The following discusses how the National ITS Architecture provides the transportation service described by this service package. Each numbered item describes the operation of that portion of the service package identified with the corresponding number on the transaction set diagram.

  1. An Archive Data Administrator can set operational parameters on the archive (archive management requests). These can include how much and how long to store operational data, how to aggregate the data (e.g. averaging or sampling and at what age - for example older data may be sampled more sparsely than more current data). The Administrator can issue user IDs and passwords to limit access to certain types or classes of data, and may determine what data will be stored in an encrypted state in order to control access. The Archive Data Administrator corresponds to the librarian of the archive in our analogy, where the librarian is responsible for the storage organization of the library data contents, and is responsible for determining and administering access to the data on this or Other Archives. The archive returns archive management data to the Archive Data Administrator.

  2. The ADMS can exchange archive coordination data with Other Archives. This exchange of information, when not in direct response to an Archive Data User System request for information, involves the exchange of indexes of data stored at each archive. In this way, a local index in each archive can be used to identify where data is stored that can be responsive to a user request.

  3. An interface is provided for Archive Data User Systems, to request (archived data product requests) and then receive archived data products.

  4. If necessary, to be responsive to an Archive Data User System, the archive may request and receive information from one or more Other Archives (archive coordination).