Virginia EOC
Status:
Existing
Definition:
Virginia Emergency Operations Center located in Richmond. This element includes the VDES mobile command center vehicle and other regionalized VDEM office and personnel extensions of the EOC.
Stakeholder:
Systems Interconnected
with the Virginia EOC
Interconnect
Diagram
Diagram
Architecture Flow Diagrams
which include Virginia EOC:
- Virginia EOC
National Weather Service - Virginia EOC VDOT Fredericksburg District Maintenance and Construction Residencies
- Virginia EOC VDOT NOVA District Construction Management
- Virginia EOC VDOT NOVA District Maintenance
- Virginia EOC VDOT NRO MPSTOC - TOC/ATMS
- Virginia EOC VDOT NRO Operations Maintenance
- Virginia EOC VDOT NRO TFO
- Virginia EOC WMATA Transit Police (MTPD) Control Center
Architecture Flows
to/from the Virginia EOC:
Virginia EOC 
VDOT Fredericksburg District Maintenance and Construction Residencies VDOT NOVA District Construction Management VDOT NOVA District Maintenance VDOT NRO MPSTOC - TOC/ATMS VDOT NRO Operations Maintenance VDOT NRO TFO WMATA Transit Police (MTPD) Control CenterVirginia EOCVirginia EOCVirginia EOCVirginia EOCVirginia EOCNational ITS Architecture Subsystems
mapped to the Virginia EOC:
- Alerting and Advisory System Terminator
- Emergency Management Center Subsystem
- Traffic Management Center Subsystem
National ITS Architecture Services
associated with Virginia EOC:
National ITS Architecture Functional Requirements
associated with Virginia EOC:
Emergency Early Warning System
- The center shall monitor information from Alerting and Advisory Systems such as the Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs), the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS), etc. The information may include assessments (general incident and vulnerability awareness information), advisories (identification of threats or recommendations to increase preparedness levels), or alerts (information on imminent or in-progress emergencies).
- The center shall provide the capability to correlate alerts and advisories, incident information, and security sensor and surveillance data.
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to traffic management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to traveler information service providers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to maintenance centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to other emergency management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
- The center shall receive incident information from other transportation management centers to support the early warning system.
- The center shall develop and exchange evacuation plans with allied agencies prior to the occurrence of a disaster.
- The center shall request traffic management agencies to implement special traffic control strategies and to control evacuation traffic, including traffic on local streets and arterials as well as the major evacuation routes.
- The center shall manage inter-agency coordination of evacuation operations, from initial planning through the evacuation process and reentry.
- The center shall coordinate evacuation information and controls with other traffic management centers.
- The center shall coordinate planning for evacuation with emergency management centers - including pre-planning activities such as establishing routes, areas to be evacuated, timing, etc.
- The center shall exchange incident information with emergency management centers, maintenance and construction centers, transit centers, information service providers, and the media including description, location, traffic impact, status, expected duration, and response information.
- The center shall coordinate planning for incidents with emergency management centers - including pre-planning activities for disaster response, evacuation, and recovery operations.
- 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.
- The center shall collect asset restrictions information from roadway maintenance operations.
- The center shall collect current and forecast road and weather information from weather service providers (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services).