1.1.4.3: Provide Direct Media Traffic Data Interface

This process shall be responsible for providing the interface between the media and the process responsible for obtaining data from the stores of traffic data maintained by other processes within the Provide Traffic Surveillance facility of the Manage Traffic function. The process shall enable the media to be provided with current, long term (historic) and predicted traffic data. The data may be provided in one or more formats: as a data stream, as processed and displayed to Traffic Operations Personnel (e.g. graphical summaries of link speeds), or as a display (with data included on a map of relevant part(s) of the road and freeway served by the Manage Traffic function. The media shall only be able to see displayed that data that the traffic operations personnel have made available, through the use of the definition in the traffic data media parameters.

This process is associated with the Traffic Management Center physical object.

This process is associated with the following functional objects:

• TMC Traffic Information Dissemination

This process is associated with the following data flows:

• tm-traffic_data
• traffic_data_media_parameters
• tm-traffic_video_images
• retrieved_traffic_media_data
• tm-traffic_image_meta_data