I-81 Towing and Recovery Incentive Program (TRIP) Roles and Responsibilities

This area includes all the roles and responsibilities that have been identified for the I-81 Towing and Recovery Incentive Program (TRIP) 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)

Stakeholders

• Virginia State Police

Roles and Responsibilities

• 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 Staunton District Operations

Roles and Responsibilities

• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
• Communicate commercial vehicle incident information with heavy vehicle towing companies to execute vehicle removal from travel lanes.
• Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.
• Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
• 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
• Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
• 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.
• Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Support coordinated response to incidents.



• Heavy Duty Recovery Companies

Roles and Responsibilities

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