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Concept of Operations for Mount Rainier National Park Intelligent Transportation Systems Mount Rainier National Park National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Concept of Operations for Mount Rainier National Park Intelligent Transportation Systems Mount Rainier National Park Natural Resource Report NPS/NRR—2013/04 NPS D-XXX/XXXXXX & PMIS 88348 ON THE COVER Highway Advisory Radio Information Sign, Mount Rainier National Park Photograph by: Steve Lawson Concept of Operations for Mount Rainier National Park Intelligent Transportation Systems Mount Rainier National Park Natural Resource Report NPS/NRR—2013/04 NPS D-XXX/XXXXXX & PMIS 88348 Lawrence Harman1, Steve Lawson2, and Brett Kiser2 1Harman Consulting, LLC 13 Beckler Avenue Boston, MA 02127 2Resource Systems Group, Inc. 55 Railroad Row White River Junction, VT 05001 April 2013 U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Fort Collins, Colorado The National Park Service, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science office in Fort Collins, Colorado, publishes a range of reports that address natural resource topics. These reports are of interest and applicability to a broad audience in the National Park Service and others in natural resource management, including scientists, conservation and environmental constituencies, and the public. The Natural Resource Report Series is used to disseminate high-priority, current natural resource management information with managerial application. The series targets a general, diverse audience, and may contain NPS policy considerations or address sensitive issues of management applicability. All manuscripts in the series receive the appropriate level of peer review to ensure that the information is scientifically credible, technically accurate, appropriately written for the intended audience, and designed and published in a professional manner. This report received informal peer review by subject-matter experts who were not directly involved in the collection, analysis, or reporting of the data. Views, statements, findings, conclusions, recommendations, and data in this report do not necessarily reflect views and policies of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use by the U.S. Government. This report is available from Mount Rainier National Park, Natural & Cultural Resources and the Natural Resource Publications Management website (http://www.nature.nps.gov/publications/nrpm/). Please cite this publication as: Harman, L., S. Lawson and B. Kiser. 2013. Concept of Operations for Mount Rainier National Park Intelligent Transportation Systems: Mount Rainier National Park. Natural Resource Report NPS/NRR—2013/04, NPS D-XXX/XXXXXX & PMIS 88348. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. NPS D-XXX/XXXXXX, April 2013 Concept of Operations for MORA ITS Change History DATE NOTE 11/30/12 Initial Draft LJH version 01.10 1/23/13 Initial Draft LJH version 01.11 for 1/23/12 RSG discussion 1/28/13 Initial Draft LJH version 01.12 for RSG review 2/1/13 Initial Draft RSG version 01.13 for NPS review 3/1/13 Revised Draft RSG version 01.14 for MORA Management Team Review 3/26/13 Revised Draft RSG version 01.15 (added Appendices B and C) for NPS review 4/26/13 Final Draft completed by RSG i Concept of Operations for MORA ITS This Page Intentionally Left Blank ii Concept of Operations for MORA ITS Foreword This Foreword provides a guide to reading and reviewing the Concept of Operations Plan for Mount Rainier National Park Intelligent Transportation Systems (2013 MORA ConOps). 1. Mount Rainer National Park (MORA) is developing and intends to implement a comprehensive system to manage visitor travel to and within the park, and the 2013 MORA ConOps was developed as part of that effort. Mount Rainier National Park accommodates more than one million visitors annually and experiences intensive visitation during summer months. During peak periods of visitation, visitors must wait in long lines of traffic to enter the park and have difficulty finding places to park their cars once they enter the park. The park’s General Management Plan (GMP) calls for coordinated deployment of shuttle service, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), and overflow parking management to improve transportation conditions in the park. The 2013 MORA ConOps was developed as a foundational step in the Systems Engineering process MORA is following for planning and deploying ITS in the park (Figure 1). Figure 1. Systems Engineering "V" Diagram. 2. It is beyond the scope of the 2013 MORA ConOps to specify cost estimates for MORA ITS deployments. Subsequent phases of the MORA ITS Systems Engineering approach include specifying detailed system requirements, and ultimately developing detailed system design. Thus, the 2013 MORA ConOps does not include cost estimates for MORA ITS deployments, but rather provides a basis for MORA ITS stakeholders to specify and agree upon a concept for ITS deployment in MORA. Readers who are interested in additional information about the process of Systems Engineering for ITS, including information about sequencing of steps within the Foreword iii Concept of Operations for MORA ITS process, are encouraged to refer to the US Department of Transportation’s guide entitled Systems Engineering for Intelligent Transportation Systems: An Introduction for Transportation Professionals (a full citation is provided in the Resource Documents section on Page 3 of the 2013 MORA ConOps). 3. The 2013 MORA ConOps is a collaborative document that is developed by the MORA ITS stakeholders who will deploy and use the next phase of technology for MORA Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The 2013 MORA ConOps is based on the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) guidelines for preparing a ConOps within a process of Systems Engineering for ITS. A question and answer piece is included to help define and explain technical terms for non-transportation professionals. 4. While the stakeholders for the 2013 MORA ConOps include regional, statewide, and national agencies and individuals, none are more important than the stakeholders that work at MORA. The 2013 MORA ConOps is the place for local (i.e., MORA) stakeholders to literally stake out their transportation technology needs and reasonable expectations for local outcomes. 5. The 2013 MORA ConOps was developed with explicit recognition of the national significance of the Systems Engineering approach to the National ITS Architecture and the need for conformance to national standards, while still focusing on solving local (i.e., MORA) resource management and allocation issues. The nation is building the transportation technology for the twenty-first century and it is essential that this is built from the outset as a connected system that is compatible from locality to locality, region to region, state to state and for manufacturers of transportation technology from country to country. The 2013 MORA ConOps uses the standards of the International Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) for conformance with national standards for Systems Engineering and the National ITS Architecture for conformance with ITS standards. The IEEE standard is used for upgrading or updating ITS Systems Engineering processes, and is therefore the correct approach for the MORA ConOps, which is an update to the 2007 MORA ITS Technical Report prepared for the National Park Service (NPS) by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Tom Crikelair Associates. 6. The scale of the ITS Systems Engineering process at MORA should be commensurate with the scope of the ITS projects NPS chooses to pursue. For example, the scale of the ITS Systems Engineering process would necessarily be more substantial if NPS chooses to pursue major interagency infrastructure capital improvements, such as extending the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Rural Broadband Initiative to MORA, than if NPS focuses on “local, stand-alone” projects only. 7. As noted, the 2013 MORA ConOps follows guidelines for the IEEE standard format and its content and format are according to IEEE standards. The following subsections provide an annotated outline of the 2013 MORA ConOps and are provided as a guide to reading and using Foreword iv Concept of Operations for MORA ITS the document. a. Change History. This is a table that documents the draft versions of the 2013 MORA ConOps development. The change history table provides documentation of changes during the process of the ConOps development. Initially, a consultant was the primary author of the 2013 MORA ConOps; as the review and revision process proceeds, local stakeholders become subsequent authors, approve the final document, and take the Systems Engineering process to the next stages, as needed. b. Section 1, SCOPE. This section, as defined by the IEEE standard and Systems Engineering format, has four parts: i. Identification. This identifies that the 2013 MORA ConOps is an update to the 2007 Mount Rainier National Park ITS Technical Report. ii. Document Overview. This identifies the eight components of the IEEE standard for ConOps organization. iii. System Overview. This presents the key activities involved in the 2013 MORA ConOps development process. iv. Stakeholders. This identifies the individuals that comprise the MORA ITS stakeholder group that participated in a stakeholder workshop in MORA during October, 2012, as an initial step in the process to develop the 2013 MORA ConOps. c. Section 2. DOCUMENTS. The IEEE ConOps
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