Overview

This Function shall be capable of providing the following facilities:

(1) The ability to manage the store of Demand Management Data.
(2) The ability for the data about the use of transport modes that is received to be loaded directly into the store of Demand Management Data.
(3) The ability for the received data to be sent to the functionality responsible for reviewing demand management strategies.
(4) The ability to extract data from the Demand Management Data and send it to the appropriate functionality for use in the development of new demand management strategies.

Functional Requirements

(a) continuously monitor for the arrival of the data flow containing the updated demand data
(b) when the data flow in (a) arrives, load the data into the store of Demand Data
(c) send all of the data to the Analyse Data function and wait for it to respond with strategy criteria in the request demand strategy data flow
(d) when the data flow in (c) is received search through the available strategies in the store of Demand Data
(e) if a suitable strategy is found in (d) send it to the Demand Management Strategy Implementation function
(f) if no suitable strategy is found in (d) send the data for demand strategy development to the Produce Demand Management Strategy function
(g) when as a result of (f) the developed demand strategy data flow is received, load it into the store of Demand Data and also send it to the Demand Management Strategy Implementation function
(h) when any of data flows containing other the requests for data and/or strategies is received, respond by sending what was requested to the function that sent the data flow
(i) when the request for the implementation of a particular strategy is received from the Provide Operator Interface function, implement (e) for that strategy.

Diagrams

Parent Higher Level Function

• 3.3 Manage Demand

Input logical dataflows

• mt_demand_data_read
• mt_demand_management_strategy_commands
• mt_demand_strategy_data_update
• mt_developed_demand_strategy
• mt_request_data_&_strategies_for_simulation
• mt_request_demand_data_for_analysis
• mt_request_demand_strategies
• mt_request_demand_strategy
• mt_updated_demand_data

Output logical dataflows

• mt_current_demand_strategy_for_simulation
• mt_data_for_demand_strategy_development
• mt_demand_data_for_checking
• mt_demand_data_load
• mt_demand_strataegy_for_implementation
• mt_network_use_data_for_simulation
• mt_requested_demand_data_for_analysis
• mt_response_to_demand_strategy_request

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