Transportation TrafficMetadata
Traffic Management Data Dictionary (TMDD)
by Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
TMDD is a standard for traffic management centers to communicatie between themselves to cooperate in the management of roads and incidents
Assessment
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Open License No
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Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes
The vocabulary included in the TMDD is very thorough and broad. There are few required fields in the schema and it is applicable to many fields of traffic management. The standard allows extensions.
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Stakeholder Participation Yes
Contributors consisted of members of the IT sector, the engineering sector, and public agencies such as CalTrans and the City of LA
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Consensus-Based Governance No
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Extensions Yes
As long as additional features do not conflict with (i.e. substitute) TMDD features, extensions are permitted, but must be defined in a namespace separate from the copyrighted TMDD namespace
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Human Readable No
Element names are somewhat cryptic
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Machine Readable Yes
XML schema
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Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data No
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Metadata Yes
Provided metadata XML schema must be imported in header