2.8.1.6: Manage Terminal Data Collection

This process shall be responsible for processing requests for data concerning intermodal freight terminal operations. This process shall accept requests from long term data archives and data distribution functions. This process shall store operational data from within the intermodal operations function. This process shall receive and respond to requests from the Manage Archived Data and Manage Data Distribution processes for either a catalog of the data contained with the intermodal terminal data stores or for the data itself. Additionally, this process shall be able to produce sample products of the data available. As data is stored into this process quality control metrics shall be assigned. The appropriate meta-data shall be generated and stored along with the data. A catalog of the data shall be maintained to allow requesters to know what data is available from the archive store. The process shall run when a request for data is received from an external source, or when fresh data is received.

This process is associated with the Intermodal Terminal physical object.

This process is associated with the following functional objects:

• Terminal Data Collection

This process is associated with the following data flows:

• drayage_operations_archive_data
• intermodal_archive_data
• intermodal_archive_request
• intermodal_archive_status