This Function shall be capable of providing the following facilities:<br/><br/>(1) The ability to manage the output of instructions contained in an incident strategy to other functionality in the System in response to incidents that have been detected by other functionality .<br/>(2) The ability for the instructions that are sent out to require the output of information to other functionality such as that for Emergency Support, Public Transport Management, Freight and Fleet Management and Traveller Assistance.<br/>(3) The output of incident management strategies shall begin as soon as the strategy information is received.<br/>(4) The ability to keep a local store of the strategies currently being implemented and delete them when their expiry time has passed, or when a strategy modification or removal indication arrives from the incident management functionality.<br/>
(a) continuously monitor for the receipt of the input data flow;<br/>(b) when the data flow is received in (a) check to see if it contains new information about an existing or new incident that does not indicate that the incident is now closed;<br/>(c) if the check in (b) is positive, put the data that it contains into the output data flows and send them to the appropriate functionality;<br/>(d) in addition to the requirement in (b), store the data locally;<br/>(e) if the check in (b) shows that a previous incident is now closed, repeat (c) and delete all data about the incident from the local store.<br/>