Physical Object: Transit Management Center

Transit Evacuation Support

Overview
Requirements
Information Flows
Standards

Overview

'Transit Evacuation Support' manages transit resources to support evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency. It supports coordination of regional evacuation plans, identifying the transit role in a regional evacuation and identifying transit resources that would be used. During an evacuation, it coordinates the use of transit and school bus fleets, supporting evacuation of those with special needs and the general population. Transit service and fare schedules are adjusted and updated service and fare information is made available through traveler information systems.

This functional object is included in the "Transit Management Center" physical object.

This functional object is included in the following service packages:

PS13: Evacuation and Reentry Management

This functional object is mapped to the following Functional View PSpecs:

Requirements

#	Requirement
01	The center shall manage the use of transit resources to support evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency.
02	The center shall coordinate regional evacuation plans with Emergency Management - identifying the transit role in an evacuation and the transit resources that would be used.
03	The center shall coordinate the use of transit and school bus fleets during an evacuation, supporting evacuation of those with special needs and the general population.
04	The center shall adjust and update transit service and fare schedules and provide that information to other agencies as they coordinate evacuations.
05	The center shall be capable of establishing emergency fare structures to override all other fares during disasters, states of emergency, or evacuations.

Information Flows

Source	Flow	Destination
Emergency Management Center	emergency plan coordination	Transit Management Center
Emergency Management Center	emergency transit service request	Transit Management Center
Emergency Management Center	evacuation information	Transit Management Center
Other Transit Management Centers	transit service coordination	Transit Management Center
Traffic Management Center	road network conditions	Transit Management Center
Transit Management Center	emergency plan coordination	Emergency Management Center
Transit Management Center	emergency transit schedule information	Emergency Management Center
Transit Management Center	emergency transit schedule information	Traffic Management Center
Transit Management Center	emergency transit schedule information	Transportation Information Center
Transit Management Center	emergency transit service response	Emergency Management Center
Transit Management Center	transit operations status	Transit Operations Personnel
Transit Management Center	transit service coordination	Other Transit Management Centers
Transit Operations Personnel	transit operations personnel input	Transit Management Center

Standards

Currently, there are no standards associated with the functional object itself though the interfaces may have standards associated with them.