Integration with TCS Sample Clauses

Integration with TCS. The TCS abstraction of ON-TIME is a system (or a collection of systems) that manages the operation and the monitoring of railroad operations, rolling stocks and crews. The TCS is the owner of a great deal of information, such as:  The physical infrastructure and its state  The Timetables (both operational and commercial) and their maintenance  The Rolling Stock Database and its management  The Crew Database and its management  The Sensor Network that collects data and monitors the operation Owing to the crucial, safety-critical role of the TCS in the operation of the railway in- frastructure, it is important that the ON-TIME system should not interfere with the management of these data structures. The central nature of the TCS in railway opera- tion makes the TCS abstraction an ideal location for the repository of all “master data” regarding the railway infrastructure and its available resources (in particular in terms of ensuring the most up-to-date view of the world available at any given moment). The TCS Abstraction will also be responsible for the dispatch of events notifying sys- tem modules of the current traffic state and any other changes in the system. From a functional perspective, the TCS will dispatch the following types of event: