TxDOT El Paso District Public Information Office
Status
Existing
Description
The office provides the official interface between TxDOT traffic and maintenance departments and interests outside the departments such as the media. PIO also uses social media for information dissemination to the public.
Stakeholders
| Stakeholder | Role | Role Status |
|---|---|---|
| TxDOT | Owns | Future |
Physical Objects
| Transportation Information Center |
Functional Objects
| Functional Object | Description | User Defined |
|---|---|---|
| TIC Data Collection | 'TIC Data Collection' collects transportation–related data from other centers, performs data quality checks on the collected data and then consolidates, verifies, and refines the data and makes it available in a consistent format to applications that support operational data sharing between centers and deliver traveler information to end–users. A broad range of data is collected including traffic and road conditions, transit data, emergency information and advisories, weather data, special event information, traveler services, parking, multimodal data, and toll/pricing data. It also shares data with other transportation information centers. | False |
| TIC Traveler Information Broadcast | 'TIC Traveler Information Broadcast' disseminates traveler information including traffic and road conditions, incident information, maintenance and construction information, event information, transit information, parking information, and weather information. The same information is broadcast to all equipped traveler interface systems and vehicles. | False |