Surface Street Management for Virginia Bristol ITS Architecture
Service Packages
Stakeholders
- VDOT Southwest Operations
Roles and Responsibilities
- Allow control of field equipment by other traffic management centers.
- Collect current traffic conditions from sensors and surveillance equipment.
- Control ramp meters, interchange connector meters, lane control signals, mainline meters, and variable speed control systems remotely.
- Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- Distribute current traffic conditions to other centers.
- Monitor traffic conditions using field equipment (i.e. loop detectors and CCTV cameras).
- Monitor traffic sensors and surveillance (CCTV) equipment.
- Operate and maintain field equipment that controls and sends data to other field equipment (such as environmental sensors that send data to a DMS or coordination between traffic controllers on adjacent intersections), without being controlled from a cente
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Share traffic information with other traffic management centers.
- Local Public Works Agencies
Roles and Responsibilities
- Allow control of field equipment by other traffic management centers.
- Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.
- Operate and maintain traffic signal controllers for use at signalized intersections and pedestrian crossings.
- Share traffic information with other traffic management centers.
Last Updated 7/31/2025
