SunGuide Release 3.0 Design Review Meeting Minutes
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1. SunGuide Release 3 0 Design Review Meeting Minutes Date May 2 3 2007 Location District 5 Headquarters Deland Attendees Trey Tillander FDOT CO Adam Clauss SwRI James Pol FHWA Robert Heller SwRI Steve Corbin FDOT D4 Dedaimia Kozlovsky SwRI Jennifer Heller FDOT D5 Steve Dellenback SwR I Mike Smith FDOT D5 Marge Kiolbassa SwRI George Gilhooley FDOT D5 Meredith Moczygemba SwRI Edward Grant FDOT D5 Sam Slocum SwRI Joe Steward FDOT D5 Brandon Meiners SwRI Jennifer Heller FDOT D5 Glenn Regner SwRI Brian Cole FDOT D5 Stephen Johns SwRI Nathan Ruckert FDOT D5 David Chang PBS amp J Manny Fontan FDOT D6 John Bonds PBS amp J John Easterling FTE Krista Small PBS amp J John Hope PBS amp J Video Conference Attendees Subject Design Review for iFlorida components of SunGuide Release 3 0 Note Agenda and slides for each agenda item are available from the project website at http sunguide datasys swri edu Item 1 Introductions and Opening Remarks Trey introduced the meeting Introductions performed Product process waterfall discussed Bonds inquired about missing requirements Tillander deferred until he has had time to review Item 2 High Level Overview meeting objectives e Robert presented e Trey explained that what we are trying to do in this meeting Any new requirements that come up will be captured and if possible will be completed under the existing scope If not new r2. are shown within the current open browser window make sure will not go off edge of screen If this can be done with Google Maps SwRI will implement Trey will users be able to select different types of maps that Google provides Yes Trey Will D5 be able to use their existing web server hardware Yes a blade of the web server has been set aside for this Page 6 of 11 SunGuide Design Review Meeting May 2 3 2007 e Trey Joe provided statistics on 511 website hits 56 million total web hits since the start of 511 This is not unique visitors shows up as a hit when they change pages Around 150 000 per month e Trey Asked about last bullet on slide 95 Why are we not placing pop up message when user click on the links indicated that another web page will be opened SwRI made this decision based on space but if links are to be on another page the text can be included e Mike How would administrators edit the list of links on the links page It will be configurable What kind of editor will be used A simple text editor e g Notepad will be used e Where would the banner be located Glenn do we need to take up this much real estate Currently the banner scrolls across the box of the regular Florida 511 header banner so it should not take up any extra space e SwRI will investigate adding the travel time planner to the web site Travel times available via C2C will be provided Action item for SwRI Item 9 Opera
3. error If you prohibit this case then you are rewriting the requirements So we will leave this as is Bonds How do you address the limit of 60 second cutoff With a timer Jennifer Heller Is 60 seconds a reasonable limit Will check with operators to get their opinions D 5 RTMC operations confirmed that 60 seconds was acceptable Bonds What about the problem with concatenation of two 60 second messages with a limit of 60 seconds for the concatenated message Needs further investigation Question from SwRI are roadways more complex than a name George No Question from SwRI Are drive time summaries drive time comparisons and summary comparisons the same George Jennifer Yes no sorta maybe not in future Get LogicTree ICD to support it SLIDE 43 FEAT25 6 3 refers to information What information is being reported in both directions of travel FDOT will take this off line Subsequent discussions prior to lunch indicate that the travel times on the spokes from the rim analogy is not really what D5 needs This will need work on both sides to resolve this DK also determined that there should be a change to the formatting of Link Summary Reports to be directional E W would be different summaries Tillander incident association strategy in order to properly associate incidents with 511 segments the roadways all need to be named consistently Since this is done through drop down boxes and operators are not all
4. time comparisons e FDOT concurred on the interpretation of Drive Time Summary Comparisons There will be a follow up telecom on Monday May 7 to discuss this in more detail e Krista Small can an operator delete a message that another operator recorded Yes Item 8 Web Server e Robert Heller presented the slides e Corbin need to hover over an icon and get mouseover text aka camera dms SwRI Hover over gives details of event same as D2 website SwRI will determine what is required for ADA compliance e To save space on statewide could put legend over the Gulf Allow to minimize legend e Corbin Icon hover overs may open off the screen if icon close to the edge Google provides way to specify where to open David Ashton can assist if necessary e Tillander Will the locate an address function be part of our map Yes it is provided by Google Based on our SwRI test site could place under Select Map Layers on the left e SwRI test site Statewide view needs to be expanded to include whole state e SwRI test site Filter the Conditions Incident Construction list based on the checkboxes enabled on the map e The slides are based on the requirements SwRI received for the Web Server However based on the web technology SwRI has been directed to use some of them will not apply e Corbin asked how much of the eventual ATIS functionality should be on this site Decision was made for cost purposes to use
5. de 43 Requirement FEAT 25 5 22 FEAT 25 5 23 need to be reworded The report needs to include both directions 129 SwRI Slide 55 SwRI will look into the option to turn on off automated TvT message capability to store 1 or 2 incident message per segment message Will be entered as a Footprint issue enhancement May 23 2007 130 PBS amp J Need to create a requirement and compare to footprint issue 63 of raw data calculation for real travel time in report instead of capped data June 15 2007 131 FDOT D5 Who has the authority to approve VSL changes May 23 2007 132 FDOT CO Provide the most recent ADA guidelines to SwRI May 23 2007 133 FDOT D5 D5 will need to register with Google so that their maps can be used on the web server August 1 2007 134 FDOT D5 FDOT will request a waiver for the web site to exceed 800x600 July 1 2007 135 FDOT D4 Send the plain language act to SwRI for their use on final web page design May 23 2007 136 SwRI SwRI to investigate adding the travel time planner to the website June 15 2007 137 SwRI Provide FDOT with a list of ODS reports along with data source May 30 2007 Page 11 of 11
6. e scrolling banner user configurable o Not like non tabbed approach Slide 92 Other sites o Like Feature that allows user to find a location on the map This is a Google maps feature Google features such as the locator in the map legend o Not Like legends overlay control on top of the map Although might be ok if it can be minimized Corbin what screen resolution will the map be designed for FDOT will apply for a waiver to use 1024x768 rather than 800x600 May need a clickable print version of the website to get the waiver D5 to apply for a waiver Corbin asked if SwRI has information on the plain language act It says that you cannot use acronyms on the website Corbin will send to SwRI Corbin can SwRI support an enhancement to download a scrolling bar onto the user s PC Glenn showed a preview of the Google maps based website o Trey asked where the address locator would be It will be added in the area to the upper left where map layers are listed o George Is congestion Speed alarm thresholds across C2C color configurable Yes Is it based on speed alone or on other factors The website just bases color on whether or not the link is congested based on a whether or not SunGuide says it is classified as congested Within SunGuide the judgment of whether or not the roadway is congested take into account the speed limit on the link as well as current speed Corbin can web developer make sure mouse over pop ups
7. e strange features such as users being required to log in multiple times This should not happen with the Crystal reports in SunGuide o Mike Smith Asked about efficiency how quickly the reports will be generated SwRI anticipates that the reports should be generated quickly since the rollups to minutes 15 minutes etc will be performed as the data comes in and stored in the ODS Bonds are there requirements for retrieval performance No one remembers but this is a concern Mike Smith Update on external real time raw data feed asked about at last meeting for third party users media etc Some data including travel times is available through C2C XML format but not raw 20 second data Raw 20 second data is also stored to CSV files SwRI response the C2C interface needs to be enabled so that C2C data is published FDOT D5 would need to allow network access the web server running the C2C infrastructure so that 3 parties could access SwRI can assist under the SunGuide support effort Hope are error logs also purged after 90 days Heller Error logs are managed by an entirely separate component from the ODS Gilhooley Slide 118 how to the detector stations get picked User selects them There will be a separate graph for each detector station Jennifer Heller Slide 118 Please use more human readable names or include more information and be consistent throughout SunGuide Labels like Station 546 are not he
8. ed So the report WILL use actual speeds there is no issue o Discussed detectors that only monitor one direction the other direction should be blank empty in this case o Corbin if this report is showing detectors could the report also show what links TvT links and or 511 links the detectors are in o Corbin do we want the report to be broken down by lane rather than detector o Gilhooley This report should show status whether or not there is data for BOTH I4 loops and other roads in central Florida probe travel times from OOCEA Intended for operator to quickly go in and see what data is available what is and is not working right now Should be sorted by road so you see all of the I4 links all of the SR50 links etc o Discussed whether to keep status column what types of values to use in there etc Determined Use SunGuide statuses Error Failed Active Out of Service for TSS Iniks Leave empty blank for OOCEA AVI links Rename column to detector status o Discussed re naming the report to be less misleading something like System Status Summary o D5 will provide additional feedback on desired report format before the follow up meeting on the a9 Corbin slide 128 could this report show current suspect fields Heller this report is designed to show the status over the past 24 hours Corbin is not asking to change the report rather wondering if this information what fields are not being repo
9. equirements will be deferred to a later release e John Bonds asked if the SUB requirements SwRI derived are also considered functional requirements Robert Heller clarified that these are functional requirements Page l of 11 SunGuide Design Review Meeting May 2 3 2007 and that they are intended to clarify the FEAT requirements and gave an example of how why SwRI would define a SUB requirement Item 3 Variable Speed Limit Signs e Adam Clauss presented the slides e Trey Tillander asked if there will be limits to what the minimum can be lowered and the maximum to which it can be raised Additionally there is a minimum speed limit for interstate highways within Florida Heller described the functionality of the system as selecting one of two speeds based on traffic conditions these are specified by individual sign this functionality is as described to SwRI in Sept 2006 by Joe Schuerger of PBSJ e Is there a timeout for accepting the recommended change Talk of a timeout for the recommendation for configuration And a time limit between changing the recommendation e Jennifer Heller commented that as long as they can tell the difference from a DMS the icon is fine e Will there ever be a time when a speed limit is not displayed No There will be out of service etc e Jennifer Heller confirmed that operators should not be allowed to manually post a speed limit The operator can select speed proposed by the s
10. he user will specify a growth factor Trey planning already has analysis tools that calculate growth factors Item 10 Open Discussion e SwRI will send minutes out early next week e Tentatively scheduled follow up design review video teleconference for May 22 8 30 to noon ET We will attempt to cover the follow up from both design reviews in this teleconference e Any comments on today s discussion should be completed by May 18 Page 10 of 11 SunGuide Design Review Meeting May 2 3 2007 ACTION ITEMS Numbering of Action Items is based on all action items identified on the SunGuide project Number Responsible Text Due Date 122 SwRI Rework VSL design based on multiple steps need to see GUIs implement without pop up review of current user manual concept of plans to drive the VSLs May 23 2007 123 SwRI Examine schedule for early delivery of the American Dynamics camera driver May 23 2007 124 FDOT D5 Is to determine if the 60 second limit for a recorded message is adequate This also applies to concatenated messages 125 FDOT D5 SwRI Provide clarification of information reference within FEAT25 6 3 126 SwRI Determine of the LogicTree ICD supports drive time comparisons May 23 2007 127 FDOT D4 D5 Steve Corbin and Jennifer Heller to provide rule based GUI display Message of Amber Alert Slide 31 128 PBS amp J Sli
11. lpful Heller The labels will use the device names configured in SunGuide and Joe has configured descriptive names so there should be no problem Corbin using Crystal can t we allow the users to select the graph format Trey the concept was that SwRI would do X number of reports and FDOT would make changes additional reports from there again for cost efficiency Hope Slide 126 Could Positive Direction and Negative Direction be changed to something like Northbound and Southbound appropriately Heller Yes There was extensive discussion of the report depicted on Slide 126 o Heller provided an inaccurate description of the report Page 8 of 11 SunGuide Design Review Meeting May 2 3 2007 o FDOT wants the times in this Travel Time Report to be computed based on raw detector data not capped or smoothed o Dellenback Footprints issue 63 uncapped speed data is stored to the archive o Corbin amp Gilhooley would like to do another travel time computation for these reports o Trey requested that SwRI investigate level of effort to report uncapped travel times o Hope Slide 126 What time period is this reporting Heller current Heller came back to slide 126 at 10 48 and clarified that this report is a detector link status report what is the current speed and based on that speed what is the time to drive across the link It has nothing to do with SunGuide travel times and it is misnam
12. makes it hard for the operator to use e Corbin What happens when the response plan message goes away They automatically unmerge e Tillander Release 3 1 plan for travel time enhancement There is Amber Alert CONOPS out now We need to develop additional requirements for Release 3 1 for the travel time to an accident We need to develop requirements for adding incident to travel times We need to develop requirements for adding Amber Alert to travel time e Hope Can you use the DMS Group concept No the DMS Group concept is a GUI object nota DMS or MAS concept Item 7 511 e Dedaimia Kozlovsky presented the slides e Bonds how will the location of 511 icons be determined on the map Use a telephone symbol e FHP CAD incidents not currently imported into SG When will this available 3 1 3 x Will be a priority maybe 3 1 Page 3 of 11 SunGuide Design Review Meeting May 2 3 2007 John Do not allow completion of a scenario without a complete set of messages wav files NO just give popup when a scenario is attempting to go out and it does not have a file This matches requirement Tillander why minimum of 1000 wav files D5 actually has 3100 Requirement was written that way may be too low SwRI do not anticipate additional messages to be a problem PBSJ If there is a scenario and not a message then we record a new message If there is not a message for a scenario then this is a configuration
13. operation of the VSL system now o Set more than two default and slow speeds Currently a VSL supports 55 50 40 and 30 or it supports 50 40 and 30 There are 22 VSLs 6 are using 55 mph Page 2 of 11 SunGuide Design Review Meeting May 2 3 2007 o The current system allows an administrator to define plans for VSLs and the VSLs to operate in groups o Speed limit recommendations are based solely on a rolling 5 minute average of occupancy rates and also a predicted 5 minute occupancy rate o Increased occupancy rates can affect multiple VSLs not just the VSL closest to the roadway link o There may be multiple plans in operation at a single time but they are guaranteed by the system not to conflict e FDOT tried to provide a demonstration but the system was rebooting FDOT provided the SUM for the VSL system via email after the meeting Item 4 American Dynamics CCTV Driver e Adam Clauss presented the slides e Bonds you can still get status No status e Tillander Is there any possibility of delivering this earlier than with 3 0 SwRI committed to looking into this Item 5 EH SL Enhancements e Adam Clauss presented the slides Item 6 Message Arbitration System MAS Modifications e Adam Clauss presented the slides e Corbin Merge only one sign at a time Why cannot I merge all messages with a response plan with the travel time message He likes the capability but the implementation of a sign at a time
14. owed to free text roadway names there is consistency in naming Tillander Is there a lower bound for a travel time segment There is a minimum for each reporting segment You have to enter a minimum time for the slots into which we put the wav files see page 67 Slide 71 Remove Enabled Jennifer Heller Instead of enabling or disabling a 511 reporting segment through the admin GUI FDOT would like this capability from the operator GUI D5 no longer uses override messages Instead they record the information in the summary and then turn off the TVT portion of the message FDOT would like the ability to be able to record and save a base message for a 511 segment Requirements forbid the reuse of a custom recorded message but FDOT would like the ability to save a few custom recorded messages for reuse On GUI mockups has a date recorded this should include a timestamp as well Should also include filename of the message Jennifer Heller Recording of a new wav file should display the controls of play stop record Page 4 of 11 SunGuide Design Review Meeting May 2 3 2007 e Corbin Suggests tying the manually recorded incident message to the SunGuide incident so that when the incident gets edited or closed the operator is prompted to make the changes to the 511 system e Bonds review the wave files is all audio yes e SwRI needs to check the LogicTree ICD to see if the VR system supports the drive
15. rted can be made accessible through SunGuide for diagnostic purposes Bonds Slide 130 reports vary in units for reporting travel times minutes seconds minutes and seconds should we define a single format SunGuide has the data to seconds and can display it in whatever format is desired FDOT stated travel times in these reports should be expressed in minutes and decimal fractions of minutes Corbin Slide 130 could this report be used to associate incidents with 511 messages played Discussed report and it just shows all messages fora date Jennifer amp Page 9 of 11 SunGuide Design Review Meeting May 2 3 2007 George requested a change to be able to select a specific time range and show the wav files that were playing for that range the travel time that caused that to be selected and the times that the wav files were playing So fields will be O OLO OO O From To Date and time range Calculated Travel Time minutes to 2 decimal places Rounded Travel Time 5 minute increments Selected wav file e Slide 131 O O O Does this calculation know about how many lanes are on the roadway Heller no this report just projects future traffic volume based on past volume s and a growth factor For example could project traffic volume on Mondays at 8 00 am in January based on last January Mondays 8 00 am and a growth factor Bonds any interest in calculating the growth factor Heller no t
16. ta Not in release 3 0 This was removed to reduce cost e D5 is in the process of updating their current RWIS devices to acquire NTCIP devices e Are these report mockups actually from the CFDW SDD Yes We intend to replicate these very closely e When is cutoff for saying they want reports changed Follow up design review Tillander and Dellenback Page 7 of 11 SunGuide Design Review Meeting May 2 3 2007 Jennifer have you seen any reports in these screenshots that look like they may be overly difficult No It would be useful to know if there are any types you will never use ex data at more than yearly intervals Useful for data partitioning purposes to improve performance For graphs do NOT need individual lane data Already have this data in tabular format Only go down to direction EB versus WB etc George Slide 116 That stacked graph top does not make sense Line graphs would make much more sense Same for slide 115 SwRI will make changes to users preference George Jennifer GENERAL RULE use line graphs instead of stacked bar graphs Slide 130 need times as well for the 511 messages Want to be able to relate travel times to incidents Report needs to be redefined SwRI will make changes Trey could SwRI show a slide with which reports are coming from which database Heller no and not for next week we re not quite that far yet Discussion about Crystal Reports o Currently there ar
17. the SunGuide website with modifications for iFlorida e Trey there is anew set of ADA compliance guidelines or at least a new document name need to make sure we use the latest set Corbin what methods for ADA compliance will be used compared to various sample websites Determined that SwRI will run the test to make sure final website is ADA compliant Action item for CO to provide to SwRI for implementation e Bonds asked when we decided on Google Was decided during a conference call on April 24 2007 e Trey question on Google maps district 5 will need to register with Google to get a license agreement from Google and provide Google with the URL of the site Action item assigned to District 5 e Slide 88 www fl511 com o Like Same 6 tabs on top except travel time tool will be removed Mike Smith asked when and why this was removed In January and because of cost Page 5 of 11 SunGuide Design Review Meeting May 2 3 2007 SwRI is looking into whether it can possibly be re added based on recent request from Mike Smith o Not like Accuracy Slide 89 District 2 o Like SwRIis probably going to go with a similar method for the ADA compliant text on side rather than at the bottom o Not like Shape of map long and skinny should be closer to square Amount of space used for links on the right hand side of the front page Links do not need to be on the front page Slide 90 SMART SunGuide o Lik
18. tional Data Store e Robert Heller presented the slides e Bonds is there any information on how much storage this information will take Yes the CFDW SDD has a detailed analysis of this e Bonds some data comes from the SunGuide database some from this ODS Yes but no single report requires information from both databases so no joins between them e Trey the Reporting subsystem will be reviewed next week Trey requested that list of reports with data source identified for each report summary was provided on page 98 of slides Action item for SwRI e George is Crystal the right choice for these reports We initially had in mind an Oracle product to generate the reports but after taking into consideration the SunGuide 3 0 reports and the existing 2 2 crystal reports we chose to provide a common interface to all reports through Crystal e Bonds should we capture the list of implemented reports in requirements Tillander No just having a requirement that reads 15 reports gives flexibility to add change remove reports as desired e George What about CAD DMS data CAD is not in release 3 0 DMS and VSL will be there e Tillander slide 107 depicts data going straight from ODS gt Browser is that accurate No reporting subsystem will retrieve data write the report PDF file to a separate location URL for that file will be passed back to the browser e Smith Where is information regarding Meteorlogix da
19. ystem e Need to formulate recommendations for the OI at the follow up on the 25 o This makes the third pop up that can occur within the SunGuide system The others are DMS spelling and DMS C2C permissions o Bonds Do these get tiled SwRI is not sure o Jennifer Heller Currently there is a flashing window at the top of the screen that indicates there is a VSL recommendation The operator can select this and then the VSL window comes up This is a concern about how many pop ups you can get and distract the operator e Bonds If the operator does not accept the recommendation when does the system make anew recommendation Tillander This indicates that the operator has made the decision not to use the VSL Smith So it should not make a new recommendation until it recovers and then makes a new recommendation e Chang Who has the authority to approve a speed limit D5 Gilhooley is looking into this Central office is looking into this e Smith Flash the VSL Flash VSL on an overlay of the map How do we get a VSL alert to the operator A map feature that could notify the operator of alerts across the top of the map e Re opened the VSL discussion at 4 25 after finishing other topics to further discuss what speed limits and configuration parameters are needed e Heller Based on discussion in Deland on September SwRI had designed for one normal and one alternate speed and to operate each sign independently e George described the
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