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TCIP
Implementation, Requirements and Capabilities Editor
TIRCE
The TIRCE
application navigates and tailors the APTA Transit Communications Interface
Profiles (TCIP) standard. TCIP, created
in a collaborative multi-agency effort, describes the building blocks of
standardized information exchange between transit agencies: both the data to be exchanged and the
procedures for accomplishing its transfer.
The library of information flows contained within TCIP can be used to
construct uniform communications between agencies, individually customized to
adapt to specific business needs.
TIRCE simplifies the process of selecting
the appropriate information transfers from TCIP and in tailoring those
interfaces for use in a particular project or product. For a detailed explanation of TCIP and what
it provides, see section 4 “Understanding TCIP” in Volume I of the TCIP
Specification.
The TIRCE application collects information
about one or more proposed TCIP-based interfaces and uses it to generate
rigorous interface specifications.
These specifications may be in the form of a Profile Requirements List
(PRL) [included in a transit Request for Proposal (RFP)] and/or a Profile
Implementation Conformance Statements (PICS) which is used to describe a
product’s interface capabilities in a product specification.
TIRCE provides a step-by-step process intended for use by technical leads with
general knowledge about TCIP and the procurement process. TIRCE is not a
design tool. Its purpose is to help agencies and vendors:
· Simplify the
process of defining interfaces
· Specify
interfaces that conform to the TCIP standard
· Verify that
products conform to interface definitions
· Document
interfaces in a standardized fashion (PRL/PICS)
·
Create a mirror of an interface specification to allow a compatible interface
specification to be automatically generated
