6.2.1–Collect Misc Traveler Information (Pspec*)

This process shall collect miscellaneous traveler information including information about parking facilities, events, weather, border crossings, and the services of yellow pages service providers. Data quality checks shall be performed on all collected data. The process shall provide data formatted for use as part of a traveler's trip. The process shall provide the data to the broadcast traveler information application, and to the application which transmits traveler information to other operations centers. Upon request from the interactive traveler information application the process shall provide all or some requested subset of the collected traveler data. Upon receipt of traveler information alert subscriptions, this process shall output relevant traveler information (e.g., special event, road weather, border congestion, and parking) alerts. The process shall maintain a store of data collected from the miscellaneous sources. This process shall exchange information with Other Information Service Providers to allow one ISP to act as a wholesaler and provide information to other ISPs. The process shall select the appropriate subset of data which will be sent to each ITS application or entity that is requesting data. The process shall provide all of the received information to the ISP Operator Interface process and receive the data collection parameters (to define exactly what data shall be retrieved as a result of each request) from the operator interface process.

This Pspec is associated with the Information Service Provider Subsystem*.

This Pspec is associated with the following Equipment Packages*:

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