Commercial Vehicles - Commercial Vehicle Functionality
Subsystem Description
The Commercial Vehicle Subsystem (CVS) resides in a commercial vehicle and provides the sensory, processing, storage, and communications functions necessary to support safe and efficient commercial vehicle operations. The Commercial Vehicle Subsystem provides two-way communications between the commercial vehicle drivers, their fleet managers, attached freight equipment, and roadside officials, and provides HAZMAT response teams with timely and accurate cargo contents information after a vehicle incident. This subsystem provides the capability to collect and process vehicle, cargo information from the attached freight equipment, and driver safety data and status and alert the driver whenever there is a potential safety or security problem. Basic identification, security and safety status data are supplied to inspection facilities at mainline speeds. In addition, the subsystem will automatically collect and record mileage, fuel usage, and border crossings.
Functional Area: On-board CV Electronic Data
On-board systems exchanging information between the vehicle and the roadside facility with the information such as status of driver, vehicle, carrier IDs and cargo information identified via an electronic tag.
| ID | Requirement | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The commercial vehicle shall receive pass/pull-in messages from the roadside check facilities and present them to the driver in either audible or visual forms. | Existing |
| 2 | The commercial vehicle shall respond to requests to provide data accumulated on-board the vehicle to roadside check facilities for inspection including driver logs, electronic identifiers, credentials, border clearance data, and other screening data such as cargo status, hazmat identifiers, out of service status, vehicle axle weight, vehicle weight, and time. | Existing |
| 3 | The commercial vehicle shall respond to requests to provide the identity, status and other information from the electronic cargo lock tag, if so equipped, to roadside check facilities, including border crossings. | Existing |
Functional Area: On-board CV Safety and Security
On-board systems collect and process on-board vehicle and driver safety and security information; exchanging information with roadside and remote facilities at mainline speeds and while stopped for inspections.
| ID | Requirement | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The commercial vehicle shall receive pass/pull-in messages from the roadside check facilities and present them to the driver in either audible or visual forms. | Existing |
| 2 | The commercial vehicle shall respond to requests to provide on-board safety inspection data to roadside check facilities including vehicle identification, driver logs, and characteristics data for initiating safety and security checking. Results of the inspection are read back into the on-board equipment. | Existing |
Functional Area: On-board Trip Monitoring
On-board systems to provide automatic vehicle location and automated mileage and fuel reporting and auditing. In addition, monitors the planned route and notifies the fleet and freight management center of any deviations.
| ID | Requirement | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The commercial vehicle shall compute the location of the commercial vehicle and its freight equipment based on inputs from commercial vehicle measures (e.g. identity, distance traveled, etc.) and a positioning system. | Existing |
| 2 | The commercial vehicle shall provide details of the route input from the commercial vehicle fleet management center. | Existing |
| 3 | The commercial vehicle shall provide warnings to the driver and the commercial vehicle fleet management center when the vehicle's location has deviated from its planned route. | Existing |