Winter Weather Treatment Tracking

Question

I have a peculiar request. I currently have an AVL system that will tracvk vehicle location during winter operations, however, it has some noticeable deficiencies. While I can track a trucks progress through a given route I cannot account for roads that were simply traveled across but not treated. I saw that there is a mobile portion that has a button that the driver can press in the event that they do not have a tracking unit, but how can I accomplish the same treatment tracking on a unit that simply has the GPS unit and no user intervention capability.

RyanNosek1 · Answer

@dcgordon - if you are using the Winter Weather Operations ArcGIS Solution, the below suggestions will apply. If you are not using the solution and have a different workflow, I'd need more info to be able to help with your workflow.

As @JeffSilberberg suggests, if your AVL has some additional telemetry such as plow up/down and/or if a salt gate is open/closed, you can use these values to determine if the vehicle is actively performing a service or not.

For instance, if the vehicle is dead heading on a route and has their plow up and/or the salt gate closed (depending on the telemetry you have available), you could classify this as "In Transit" and write this value to the servicetype field that is written to the vehicle tracks within the Winter Fleet Tracking real-time analytic.   See help topic section, Modify the Winter Fleet Tracking real-time analytic (Update analytics topic | Configure Winter Weather Operations , for more information on using ArcGIS Arcade to classify values from your AVL feed into values used by the solution in the servicetype field.

As the Snow Routes Status scheduled big data analytic processes new vehicle tracks each run time, a pre-configured filter on the Join Features tool (immediately downstream of the Snap to Network tool) ensures that snow route segments will never be shown as serviced by a vehicle track that was "In Transit".

-Ryan

JeffSilberberg · Answer

I would look at wiring the Plow and Speader controls into Telemetry sensors on the GPS reporting device.  The driver probably already has enough to do without adding to the workload.