MCM Maintenance Decision Support Functional Area

Description

'MCM Maintenance Decision Support' recommends maintenance courses of action based on current and forecast environmental and road conditions and additional application specific information. Decisions are supported through understandable presentation of filtered and fused environmental and road condition information for specific time horizons as well as specific maintenance recommendations that are generated by the system based on this integrated information. The recommended courses of action are supported by information on the anticipated consequences of action or inaction, when available.

Included In

Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways Maintenance Bureau
DuPage County Maintenance Operations
IDOT District 1 Maintenance Management
IDOT District 1 ComCenter
Illinois Tollway Maintenance and Construction
Kane County Maintenance Operations
Lake County Highway Maintenance Operations
McHenry County Maintenance Operations
Private Sector Maintenance Contractor Operations
Will County Division of Transportation Maintenance Operations
Municipal/Township Maintenance Operations
Utility Company Operations
City of Chicago DOT Division of Electrical Operations
City of Chicago DOT Roadway Maintenance
City of Chicago DSS Bureau of Street Operations Dispatch
Kendall County Maintenance Operations
Grundy County Maintenance Operations
City of Chicago Incident Center (CIC)

Functional Requirements

IDRequirement
01The center shall provide the center personnel with tailored external information, including weather or road condition observations, forecasted weather information or road conditions, current usage of treatments and materials, available resources, equipment and vehicle availability, road network information, and source reliability information.
02The center shall tailor the decision support information to include filtering (selection from a large amount of external information), error reduction ('smoothing' the information), fusion (combination of disparate information to match the decision needs), and analysis (creating the decision).
03The center shall provide an interface to the center personnel to input control parameters for the decision support process and receive decisions or information presentation.
04The center shall provide dispatch information to maintenance and construction vehicles based on the outputs of the decision support system, including recommended roadway treatment actions.