Traffic and Road Information System
(TRIS)
TRIS is an automated information distribution system designed to provide traffic reports for provincially maintained highways in the following Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Niagara Peninsula Regions:
- Niagara
Hamilton and Wentworth- Halton
- Peel
- Toronto
- York
- Durham
TRIS traffic reports are available to the motoring public via the Internet, and to subscribers, via fax (primarily radio media). With an increasing demand for traffic information in the Greater Toronto Area and Niagara Peninsula, motorists can receive timely and accurate reports directly from the Internet or in their vehicles through commercial radio. The Ministry's COMPASS Traffic Operation Centre is the main communications centre for all provincially maintained highways in the GTA. COMPASS operators enter traffic event information into TRIS which, in turn, generates World Wide Web files and fax-ready traffic reports. TRIS traffic congestion information is constantly updated from the Highway 401 and QEW Mississauga COMPASS Advanced Traffic Management Systems for predefined sections along Highway 401 and the QEW in the Toronto and Peel Regions.
TRIS World Wide Web service report types
Congestion Information:
Current congestion management
information (updated every five minutes) for pre-defined sections along Highway
401 and QEW (currently Metro Toronto and Peel regions only)
Unscheduled Traffic Events:
Any unplanned event including
collisions, breakdowns, emergency, roadwork, vehicle fire, spill, road
conditions, etc. per region.
Scheduled Traffic Events:
Any event that is known in
advance, including maintenance, construction, special events, etc. per
region.
TRIS media fax service report types
Unscheduled Traffic Events:
Any unplanned event including
collisions, breakdowns, emergency roadwork, vehicle fire, spill, road
conditions, etc. per region, and current traffic congestion information for
pre-defined sections along Highway 401 and the QEW (currently Metro Toronto and
Peel regions only)
Scheduled Traffic Events:
Any event that is known in
advance, including maintenance, construction, special events, etc. per
region.
Emergency Traffic Events:
Any event (Unscheduled or
Scheduled) that has been declared to have a severe impact on traffic flow. This
event type is unique in that when declared, it automatically faxes the traffic
report to all subscribers immediately.
Highway Bulletins:
News releases primarily regarding
long-term construction closures on provincially maintained highways, but can be
about anything the Ministry wishes to broadcast to TRIS subscribers.
TRIS media fax service subscription types
Fixed Schedule:
The subscriber specifies in advance when
they would like to receive traffic reports. This can be set up for Unscheduled
and/or Scheduled Events.
Event Driven:
Whenever an event is added, updated, or
terminated, the subscriber will receive a traffic report. Subscribers can
choose the 'window' of time in which they want to receive faxes (for example,
only during rush hours).
Emergency Events:
The subscriber will only receive
Emergency Events that have severe impact on traffic.
Bulletins:
The subscribers will only receive news releases
regarding long term construction closures on provincial highways.
See also:
