City of Richmond Public Works
Description: The City of Richmond Public Works owns the City of Richmond Traffic Operations Center.
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Archived Data Systems for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
Commercial Vehicle Operations for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
- Receive and respond to Mayday messages from vehicles and drivers.
- Respond to commercial vehicle and freight equipment related emergencies including incidents involving hazardous materials as well as the detection of non-permitted transport of security sensitive hazmat.
Electronic Toll Collection for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
Emergency Management for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
- Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
- Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- Route public safety vehicles to facilitate the quickest/safest arrival either based on real-time traffic information and road conditions or request routes from the traffic management center.
- 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.
- Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
- Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
- Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
- Formulate an incident response that takes into account the incident potential, incident impacts, and/or resources required for incident management including proposing and facilitating the dispatch of emergency response and service vehicles.
- Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
- 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).
Freeway Management for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
- Monitor traffic sensors and surveillance (CCTV) equipment.
- Collect current traffic conditions from sensors and surveillance equipment.
- Distribute current traffic conditions to other centers.
- Control ramp meters, interchange connector meters, lane control signals, mainline meters, and variable speed control systems remotely.
- Share traffic information with other traffic management centers.
- 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.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- Monitor and remotely diagnose field equipment issues including detecting failures, issuing problem reports, and tracking the repair or replacement of failed equipment.
Incident Management for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- 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.
- Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
- Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
- Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
- Formulate an incident response that takes into account the incident potential, incident impacts, and/or resources required for incident management including proposing and facilitating the dispatch of emergency response and service vehicles.
- Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
Maintenance and Construction for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- Tracks the location of maintenance and construction vehicles and other equipment remotely.
- Send the location of the maintenance and construction vehicles and other equipment to the maintenance center operator.
- Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
- Formulate an incident response that takes into account the incident potential, incident impacts, and/or resources required for incident management including proposing and facilitating the dispatch of emergency response and service vehicles.
- Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
- Monitor and remotely diagnose field equipment issues including detecting failures, issuing problem reports, and tracking the repair or replacement of failed equipment.
Surface Street Management for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
- Monitor traffic sensors and surveillance (CCTV) equipment.
- Collect current traffic conditions from sensors and surveillance equipment.
- Distribute current traffic conditions to other centers.
- Monitor and control highway-rail intersection (HRI) equipment remotely including standard speed active warning systems and high speed systems which provide additional information on approaching trains and detect and report on obstructions in the HRI.
- Control ramp meters, interchange connector meters, lane control signals, mainline meters, and variable speed control systems remotely.
- Share traffic information with other traffic management centers.
- 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.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- Monitor and remotely diagnose field equipment issues including detecting failures, issuing problem reports, and tracking the repair or replacement of failed equipment.
Transit Services for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- Operate and maintain security surveillance devices and analysis of that data to detect potential threats such as at transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
- Operate and maintain security sensors in areas such as transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
- Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
- Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
- Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.
Traveler Information for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
Last Updated 7/31/2025
