Maintenance and Construction for VDOT Staunton District ITS Architecture
Service Packages
Stakeholders
- Local Public Safety Agencies
Roles and Responsibilities
- Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- Local Transit Agencies
Roles and Responsibilities
- Coordinate schedules with other agencies and modes, including transit transfer cluster and transfer point information.
- Virginia State Police
Roles and Responsibilities
- Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- VDOT Central Office
Roles and Responsibilities
- Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
- Collect road surface information including road surface temperature, moisture, ice formation, and salinity from environmental sensors, surface and sub-surface.
- Collect weather information including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility from environmental sensors, surface and sub-surface.
- Disseminate road weather information to other agencies and centers.
- 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
- Process current and forecast weather data, road condition information and local environmental data, and use internal models to develop specialized detailed forecasts of local weather and surface conditions.
- VDOT NWRO Region
Roles and Responsibilities
- Assimilate collected environmental data with other current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information from weather service providers and roadway maintenance operations.
- Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
- Collect road surface information including road surface temperature, moisture, ice formation, and salinity from environmental sensors, surface and sub-surface.
- Collect weather information including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility from environmental sensors, surface and sub-surface.
- Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
- Coordinate with maintenance systems using work zone images and traveler information systems (such as DMS).
- Coordinate work schedules, factoring in the needs and activities of other agencies and adjacent jurisdictions.
- Disseminate road weather information to other agencies and centers.
- Disseminate work activity schedules and current asset restrictions to other agencies.
- Distribute work plans so that work zones are established that have minimum traffic impact.
- 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.
- Manage and support routine maintenance on the roadway or right-of-way including landscape maintenance, hazard removal (roadway debris, dead animals), routine maintenance activities (roadway cleaning, grass cutting), and repair and maintenance of both ITS
- Manage winter road maintenance, tracking and controlling snow plow operations, roadway treatment (e.g., salt spraying and other material applications) based on weather information.
- Monitor and control traffic and provide information directly to drivers in maintenance and construction areas using field equipment including CCTV cameras, driver information systems (such as DMS), and gates/barriers.
- Monitor and remotely diagnose field equipment issues including detecting failures, issuing problem reports, and tracking the repair or replacement of failed equipment.
- Monitor and support work zone activities remotely, controlling traffic through dynamic message signs (DMS), highway advisory radio, gates and barriers, and informing other groups of activity (e.g., traveler information systems, traffic management centers,
- Monitor vehicle and equipment condition.
- Operate and maintain environmental sensors.
- 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
- Process current and forecast weather data, road condition information and local environmental data, and use internal models to develop specialized detailed forecasts of local weather and surface conditions.
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Recommend courses of action including dispatch instructions based on current and forecast environmental and road conditions (filtered and fused for specific time horizons) and additional application specific information using Maintenance Decision Support
- Schedules routine and corrective maintenance.
- Send the location of the maintenance and construction vehicles and other equipment to the maintenance center operator.
- 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.
- Tracks vehicle maintenance history.
Last Updated 8/4/2025
