9.4.4: Disseminate Environmental Information

This process shall be responsible for disseminating environmental and road weather information to other functions, including Manage Traffic, Manage Transit, Manage Emergency Services, and Provide Driver and Traveler Services. The process shall disseminate current and forecasted road weather and road condition information. The process shall filter, aggregate and/or format the information received from the Process Environmental Data and Collect Environmental Data processes so that the information is appropriate for distribution external to the Manage Maintenance and Construction function. This environmental information is based on data collected from maintenance vehicle on-board sensors, roadside short range communications equipment that collects environmental probe data from ITS-equipped vehicles, roadside sensors, sensors owned by other agencies, and data from weather service and surface transportation weather service sources.

This process is associated with the Maint and Constr Management Center physical object.

This process is associated with the following functional objects:

• MCM Environmental Information Processing

This process is associated with the following data flows:

• env_info_dissemination_parameters
• env_and_weather_data_for_dissemination
• env_info_for_display
• processed_env_info
• road_weather_info_for_emergency
• road_weather_info_for_traffic
• road_weather_info_for_transit
• tm-road_weather_info
• tomcm-road_weather_info
• tro-road_weather_info
• road_weather_info_for_traveler