4.3.6: Manage Transit Vehicle Inventory

This process shall provide an inventory management function for the transit facility. This process shall store functional attributes about each of the vehicles in the fleet. These attributes shall permit the planning and assignment functions to match vehicles with routes based on suitability for the types of services required by the particular routes. This process shall also maintain knowledge of the operational status of individual vehicles and shall report that status (in-service, out-of-service, in maintenance, etc.) as requested by other functions. Based on a vehicle's status this process shall output vehicle availability to the vehicle scheduling and vehicle assignment functions. This process shall receive inputs from the maintenance function to determine vehicle maintenance status, and from the transit operations personnel to record functional attributes for individual vehicles.

This process is associated with the Transit Management Center physical object.

This process is associated with the following functional objects:

This process is associated with the following data flows: