VDOT Hampton Roads Operations
Description: The VDOT Hampton Roads Operations operates and manages the VDOT roadways and facilities in the Hampton Roads District.
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Archived Data Systems for Virginia Hampton Roads ITS Architecture
- Perform quality checks, error notification, and archive coordination.
- Collect and maintain data and data catalogs from one or more data sources.
- Collect and store traffic management data for use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.
Commercial Vehicle Operations for Virginia Hampton Roads ITS Architecture
Electronic Toll Collection for Virginia Hampton Roads ITS Architecture
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
- Manage toll collection for private and commercial vehicles.
- Reconcile toll payments with financial institutions.
- Send toll violation notification to enforcement agencies.
- Roadside collection of tolls from vehicle toll tags and violation identification.
Emergency Management for Virginia Hampton Roads 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.
- Gather dispatch and routing information from an emergency vehicle using on-board equipment for vehicle tracking and communications with care facilities.
- Request signal preemption via short range communication directly from the emergency vehicle to the traffic control equipment on the roadside.
- Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
- Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.
- Dispatch and communication with roadway service patrol vehicles that monitor roads to aid motorists, offering rapid response to minor incidents.
- 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.
- 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.
- Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.
- Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
- Operate and maintain barrier systems such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
- 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.
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- 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.
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- Roadside collection of tolls from vehicle toll tags and violation identification.
Freeway Management for Virginia Hampton Roads 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.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- Monitor traffic conditions using field equipment (i.e. loop detectors and CCTV cameras).
- Operate and maintain freeway control equipment including ramp meters, mainline metering, and lane control equipment which controls traffic on freeways, including indicators to drivers.
- Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
- Operate and maintain HOV lane usage traffic sensors and display equipment to notify users of HOV lane status for control of traffic in HOV lanes on freeways.
- Operate and maintain barrier systems such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
- Operate and maintain traffic sensors, surveillance, and automated reversible lane equipment and lane control signals to control traffic in reversible lanes.
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Control ramp meters, interchange connector meters, lane control signals, mainline meters, and variable speed control systems remotely.
- Control HOV lane sensors and HOV lane usage signals remotely.
- Detect HOV violators and notify appropriate enforcement agency.
- Share traffic information with other traffic management centers.
- Allow control of field equipment by other traffic management centers.
- Remotely controls traffic sensors, surveillance, and automated reversible lane equipment and lane control signals to control traffic in reversible lanes.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Incident Management for Virginia Hampton Roads 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 incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
- Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center 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.
- Monitor traffic conditions to identify incidents.
- 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 Hampton Roads ITS Architecture
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Monitor field equipment operational status and detect and report fault conditions.
- Provide field device status, configuration, and fault information to a traffic control center.
Parking Management for Virginia Hampton Roads ITS Architecture
Surface Street Management for Virginia Hampton Roads 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.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- Monitor traffic conditions using field equipment (i.e. loop detectors and CCTV cameras).
- Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
- Operate and maintain barrier systems such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
- Operate and maintain traffic sensors, surveillance, and automated reversible lane equipment and lane control signals to control traffic in reversible lanes.
- Operate and maintain traffic signal controllers for use at signalized intersections and pedestrian crossings.
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- 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.
- Remotely controls traffic sensors, surveillance, and automated reversible lane equipment and lane control signals to control traffic in reversible lanes.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Transit Services for Virginia Hampton Roads ITS Architecture
Traveler Information for Virginia Hampton Roads ITS Architecture
- Disseminate traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, event, and weather information to travelers.
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
Last Updated 7/31/2025
