Rail Operations Center --> Traffic 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.

Traffic Management Center (Destination Physical Object): The 'Traffic Management Center' monitors and controls traffic and the road network. It represents centers that manage a broad range of transportation facilities including freeway systems, rural and suburban highway systems, and urban and suburban traffic control systems. It communicates with ITS Roadway Equipment and Connected Vehicle Roadside Equipment (RSE) to monitor and manage traffic flow and monitor the condition of the roadway, surrounding environmental conditions, and field equipment status. It manages traffic and transportation resources to support allied agencies in responding to, and recovering from, incidents ranging from minor traffic incidents through major disasters.

Included In

This Triple is in the following Service Packages:

TM15: Railroad Operations Coordination

This triple is associated with the following Functional Objects:

TMC Advanced Rail Crossing Management

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

This Triple has the following triple relationships:

None

Communication Solutions

(None-Data) - Secure Internet (ITS) (32)
(None-Data) - Apache Kafka (36)
(None-Data) - OMG DDS (36)
(None-Data) - OASIS MQTT (42)
(None-Data) - OASIS AMQP (45)

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) - Apache Kafka

Solution Description

This solution is used within the U.S.. It combines standards associated with (None-Data) with those for Apache Kafka. The (None-Data) standards include an unspecified set of standards at the upper layers. The Apache Kafka standards include lower-layer open source code that supports data distribution of specific types of data.

ITS Application Entity Development needed			Click gap icons for more info.
Mgmt Apache Zookeeper	Facilities Development needed Apache Kafka Apache Zookeeper	Security IETF RFC 8446
	TransNet IP Alternatives IETF RFC 9293
	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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