I-81 Towing and Recovery Incentive Program (TRIP)

Project Description: TRIP is a quick clearance incentive program that partners VDOT with heavy–duty recovery companies and pays a monetary bonus for clearing commercial vehicle wrecks within 90 minutes on the I–81 corridor.

Project Status: Existing

Project Stakeholders:

• Heavy Duty Recovery Companies
• VDOT Salem District Office
• VDOT Salem District Operations
• Virginia State Police

Project Service Packages:

• PS02: Emergency Response (I-81 Towing and Recovery Incentive Program)
• TM08: Traffic Incident Management System (I-81 Towing and Recovery Incentive Program)

Project Information Flows:

Information Flow	Source Element	Destination Element	Status
decision support information	Towing - Heavy Duty Recovery Services	Tow Truck - Heavy Duty Recovery Vehicle	Existing
decision support information	VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS	VSP Vehicles	Existing
incident information	Towing - Heavy Duty Recovery Services	VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS	Existing
incident response status	Towing - Heavy Duty Recovery Services	VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS	Existing
incident scene status	Tow Truck - Heavy Duty Recovery Vehicle	Towing - Heavy Duty Recovery Services	Existing
incident scene status	VSP Vehicles	VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS	Existing
resource deployment status	Towing - Heavy Duty Recovery Services	VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS	Existing
resource deployment status	VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS	Towing - Heavy Duty Recovery Services	Existing
resource request	Towing - Heavy Duty Recovery Services	VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS	Existing
road network conditions	VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS	Towing - Heavy Duty Recovery Services	Existing
traffic images	VDOT Salem District Field Equipment	VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS	Existing
traffic images	VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS	Towing - Heavy Duty Recovery Services	Existing
traffic operator data	VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS	VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS Operator	Existing
traffic operator input	VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS Operator	VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS	Existing
video surveillance control	VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS	VDOT Salem District Field Equipment	Existing

Project Functional Requirements (Element - Functional Object):

• Tow Truck - Heavy Duty Recovery Vehicle - EV On-Board Incident Management Communication
• 1: The emergency vehicle shall receive dispatch instructions sufficient to enable emergency personnel in the field to implement an effective incident response. It includes local traffic, road, and weather conditions, hazardous material information, and the current status of resources that have been allocated to an incident.
• 2: The emergency vehicle shall provide an interface to the center for emergency personnel to transmit information about the incident site such as the extent of injuries, identification of vehicles and people involved, hazardous material, etc.
• 3: The emergency vehicle shall provide an interface to the center for emergency personnel to transmit information about the current incident response status such as the identification of the resources on site, site management strategies in effect, and current clearance status.


• Towing - Heavy Duty Recovery Services - Emergency Incident Command
• 1: The center shall provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration for first responders to support local management of an incident.
• 2: The center shall provide incident command communications with public safety, emergency management, transportation, and other allied response agency centers.
• 3: The center shall track and maintain resource information and action plans pertaining to the incident command.
• 4: The center shall share incident command information with other public safety agencies including resource deployment status, hazardous material information, rail incident information, evacuation advice as well as traffic, road, and weather conditions.
• 6: The center shall provide other agencies real-time information on the current conditions at the incident scene.


• Towing - Heavy Duty Recovery Services - Emergency Response Management
• 2: The center shall manage coordinated inter-agency responses to and recovery from large-scale emergencies. Such agencies include traffic management, transit, maintenance and construction management, rail operations, and other emergency management agencies.
• 3: The center shall provide the capability to implement response plans and track progress through the incident by exchanging incident information and response status with allied agencies.
• 5: The center shall track the availability of resources and coordinate resource sharing with allied agency centers including traffic, maintenance, or other emergency centers.


• VDOT Salem District Field Equipment - Roadway Incident Detection
• 1: The field element shall collect, process, and send traffic images to the center for incident detection and further analysis.
• 2: The field element shall remotely process video data and provide an indication of potential incidents to the traffic management center.
• 3: The field element's video devices shall be remotely controlled by a traffic management center.
• 4: The field element shall provide operational status and fault data for the incident detection devices to the traffic management center.


• VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS - Emergency Incident Command
• 1: The center shall provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration for first responders to support local management of an incident.
• 2: The center shall provide incident command communications with public safety, emergency management, transportation, and other allied response agency centers.
• 3: The center shall track and maintain resource information and action plans pertaining to the incident command.
• 4: The center shall share incident command information with other public safety agencies including resource deployment status, hazardous material information, rail incident information, evacuation advice as well as traffic, road, and weather conditions.


• VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS - Emergency Response Management
• 3: The center shall provide the capability to implement response plans and track progress through the incident by exchanging incident information and response status with allied agencies.
• 4: The center shall develop, coordinate with other agencies, and store emergency response plans.
• 5: The center shall track the availability of resources and coordinate resource sharing with allied agency centers including traffic, maintenance, or other emergency centers.
• 6: The center shall allocate the appropriate emergency services, resources, and vehicle (s) to respond to incidents, and shall provide the capability to override the current allocation to suit the special needs of a current incident.


• VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS - TMC Incident Detection
• 4: The center shall exchange incident and threat information with emergency management centers as well as maintenance and construction centers; including notification of existence of incident and expected severity, location, time and nature of incident.
• 6: The center shall provide road network conditions and traffic images to emergency management centers to support the detection, verification, and classification of incidents.
• 7: The center shall provide video and traffic sensor control commands to the field equipment to detect and verify incidents.


• VDOT Southwestern TOC/ATMS - TMC Incident Dispatch Coordination
• 1: The center shall exchange alert information and status with emergency management centers. The information includes notification of a major emergency such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, or child abduction for distribution to the public. The information may include the alert originator, the nature of the emergency, the geographic area affected by the emergency, the effective time period, and information and instructions necessary for the public to respond to the alert. This may also identify specific information that should not be released to the public.
• 5: The center shall share resources with allied agency centers to implement special traffic control measures, assist in clean up, verify an incident, etc. This may also involve coordination with maintenance centers.
• 8: The center shall monitor incident response performance and calculate incident response and clearance times.

Standards:

• None

Project Operational Concepts:

Roles and Responsibilities

• Virginia State Police
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
• Provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among public safety agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.


• VDOT Salem District Office
• Communicate commercial vehicle incident information with heavy vehicle towing companies to execute vehicle removal from travel lanes.


• Heavy Duty Recovery Companies
• Receive, respond and coordinate heavy vehicle towing services within 90 minutes of commercial vehicle incident.