Rail Operations Center --> Maint and Constr Management Center:
railroad schedules

Definition
Included In
Communication Solutions
Characteristics
Security

Definitions

railroad schedules (Information Flow): Train schedules, maintenance schedules, and other information from the railroad that supports forecast of HRI closures.

Rail Operations Center (Source Physical Object): 'Rail Operations Center' represents the (usually) centralized control point for a substantial segment of a freight railroad's operations and maintenance activities. It is roughly the railroad equivalent to a highway Traffic Management Center. It is the source and destination of information that can be used to coordinate rail and highway traffic management and maintenance operations. It is also the source and destination for incident, incident response, disaster, or evacuation information that is exchanged with an Emergency Management Center. The use of a single object for multiple sources and destination for information exchange with railroads implies the need for a single, consistent interface between a given railroad's operations and maintenance activities and ITS.

Maint and Constr Management Center (Destination Physical Object): The 'Maint and Constr Management Center' monitors and manages roadway infrastructure construction and maintenance activities. Representing both public agencies and private contractors that provide these functions, this physical object manages fleets of maintenance, construction, or special service vehicles (e.g., snow and ice control equipment). The physical object receives a wide range of status information from these vehicles and performs vehicle dispatch, routing, and resource management for the vehicle fleets and associated equipment. The physical object participates in incident response by deploying maintenance and construction resources to an incident scene, in coordination with other center physical objects. The physical object manages equipment at the roadside, including environmental sensors and automated systems that monitor and mitigate adverse road and surface weather conditions. It manages the repair and maintenance of both non-ITS and ITS equipment including the traffic controllers, detectors, dynamic message signs, signals, and other equipment associated with the roadway infrastructure. Weather information is collected and fused with other data sources and used to support advanced decision support systems.

The physical object remotely monitors and manages ITS capabilities in work zones, gathering, storing, and disseminating work zone information to other systems. It manages traffic in the vicinity of the work zone and advises drivers of work zone status (either directly at the roadside or through an interface with the Transportation Information Center or Traffic Management Center physical objects.)

Construction and maintenance activities are tracked and coordinated with other systems, improving the quality and accuracy of information available regarding closures and other roadway construction and maintenance activities.

Included In

This Triple is in the following Service Packages:

MC08: Maintenance and Construction Activity Coordination

This triple is associated with the following Functional Objects:

MCM Work Activity Coordination

This Triple is described by the following Functional View Data Flows:

fro-railroad_schedules

This Triple has the following triple relationships:

None

Communication Solutions

(None-Data) - Secure Internet (ITS) (43)
(None-Data) - Apache Kafka (44)
(None-Data) - OMG DDS (44)
(None-Data) - OASIS MQTT (50)
(None-Data) - OASIS AMQP (61)

Solutions are sorted in ascending Gap Severity order. The Gap Severity is the parenthetical number at the end of the solution.

Selected Solution

(None-Data) - OASIS AMQP

Solution Description

This solution is used within Canada, the E.U. and the U.S.. It combines standards associated with (None-Data) with those for OASIS AMQP. The (None-Data) standards include an unspecified set of standards at the upper layers. The OASIS AMQP standards include lower-layer standards that support data distribution of specific types of data.

ITS Application Entity Development needed			Click gap icons for more info.
Mgmt Development needed	Facilities Development needed OASIS AMQP	Security IP Security Alternatives
	TransNet IP Alternatives Internet Transport Alternatives
	Access Internet Subnet Alternatives

Note that some layers might have alternatives, in which case all of the gap icons associated with every alternative may be shown on the diagram, but the solution severity calculations (and resulting ordering of solutions) includes only the issues associated with the default (i.e., best, least severe) alternative.

Characteristics

Characteristic	Value
Time Context	Recent
Spatial Context	Regional
Acknowledgement	True
Cardinality	Unicast
Initiator	Destination
Authenticable	True
Encrypt	False

Interoperability	Description
National	This triple should be implemented consistently within the geopolitical region through which movement is essentially free (e.g., the United States, the European Union).

Security

Information Flow Security
	Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
Rating	Low	Moderate	Moderate
Basis	Does not contain any personal or confidential information.	While accuracy of this data is important for decision making purposes, the greatest impact if manipulated or incorrect data would be financial and likely limited in scope. For example, making all options appear less expensive than an attacker's route of fiduciary interest, driving revenue to his route. This is undesireable and significant, but not catastrophic. Thus MODERATE generally.	While accuracy of this data is important for decision making purposes, applications should be able to function without frequent updates. Thus MODERATE generally, though it could be LOW depending on the level of projected updates.

Security Characteristics	Value
Authenticable	True
Encrypt	False

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