Low Level Function
8.2.2.3.2 Manage Vehicle and Equipment
Overview
This Function shall be capable of providing the following facilities:
(1) The ability to take charge of managing Freight Vehicle and Equipment characteristics.
(2) The ability to load the Freight Vehicle and Equipment characteristics into the store of Resources Data.
(3) The ability to request registration for the Freight Vehicle and Equipment with the Law Enforcement Agency Terminator and when accepted, make payment.
(4) When a booking notification for a trip is received be able to start the preparation of the required statutory information, involving other functionality if required.
(5) Once the trip is in progress, monitor the activities involved (including incidents), requesting any additional information as and when needed and loading the relevant data about the activities into the store of Resources Data.
(6) The ability to analyse Freight Vehicle and Equipment performance so that the retirement point for each one can be decided.
Functional Requirements
(a) carry out the following actions:
(a1) record the vehicle characteristics under the store of Resources Data,
(a2) send a request for legal registration and payment,
(a3) get the answer about registration,
(a4) store the registration data under the store of Resources Data
(b) get recorded statutory information from the store of Resources Data
(c) wait for booking notification for trip. when received start preparation operation. If needed send statutory documents for trip statutory document preparation
(d) for any trip, wait for all events (start, delivery, end....) and process them as needed (storage in the database, availability of equipment or vehicle, analysis of received status, at the end global analysis of the status, etc.). Request for any additional (and available) information as needed
(e) for any trip, in case an incident has occurred on the vehicle/equipment, request all additional, available and needed information
(f) carry out all required vehicle/equipment performance analyses and consequently decide retirement for each one.
Diagrams
Parent Higher Level Function
Input logical dataflows
Output logical dataflows
User needs
Number | Description |
| The system shall be able to store all necessary statutory information on-board the vehicle. |
| The system shall be able to provide communications between fleet operators and the relevant authorities for the transfer of registration data and payments. |
| The system shall be able to validate compliance with global regulations. |
| The system shall be able to record supplementary information about events recorded by the tachograph, e.g. reason for waiting time. |
| The system shall be able to receive all necessary commercial and statutory vehicle, driver, trip and freight information from the fleet management centre at any time. |