Emergency Management
The NOVA region's public safety, emergency management, and other allied agency systems support incident management, disaster response and evacuation, security monitoring, and other security and public safety-oriented ITS applications. These systems includes the functions associated with fixed and mobile public safety communications centers including public safety call taker and dispatch centers operated by police (including transit police), fire, and emergency medical services. It includes the functions associated with Emergency Operations Centers that are activated at local, regional, state, and federal levels for emergencies and the portable and transportable systems that support Incident Command System operations at an incident. VDOT NOVA and VDOT Central Office manages sensor and surveillance equipment used to enhance transportation security of the roadway infrastructure (including bridges, tunnels, interchanges, and other key roadway segments) while transit agencies manage surveillance equipment on the public transportation system (including transit vehicles, public areas such as transit stops and stations, facilities such as transit yards, and transit infrastructure such as rail, bridges, tunnels, or bus guideways). Various regional agencies including VSP monitor alerts, advisories, and other threat information and prepare for and respond to identified emergencies. Coordinated emergency response involving multiple agencies is done through a regional set-up involving CapWIN, CapCOM, federal law enforcement agencies (FBI, Secret Service etc).
DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management- Coordinates evacuation plans among allied agencies and manages evacuation and reentry of population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses as a risk to security
- Interface with other transportation management agencies to support coordinated emergency response involving multiple agencies
- Provide emergency response plans or event plans
- Conduct offensive operations to mitigate a hazardous material emergency
- Recieve landline public safety calls and forward to appropriate dispatch center
- Supports coordination of evacuation plans among federal state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
- Receive mayday messages and security alarms, determines an appropriate response, and either uses internal resources or contacts a local agency to provide that response
- Monitors and detects potential, looming and actual disasters including natural and man-made disasters
- Maintain centralized emergency management system
- Supports coordination of evacuation plans among federal state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
- Interface with other transportation agencies to support coordinated emergency response invovling multiple agencies
- Create/Store and utilize emergency/incident response plans to facilitate coordinated response
- Monitor and dectect potential, looming and actual disasters including natural and man-made disasters
- Track and manage emergency vehicle fleets using AVL technology and two way communications with vehicle fleet
- Interface with other transportation agencies to support coordinated emergency response invovling multiple agencies
- Supports the coordination of ecavuation plans among federal, state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
- Provide emergency response plans or event plans
- Provide emergency response plans or event plans
- Monitors and detects potential, looming and actual disasters including natural and man-made disasters
- Coordinates evacuation plans among allied agencies and manages evacuation and reentry of population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses as a risk to security
- Supports coordination of evacuation plans among federal state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
- Interface with other transportation management agencies to support coordinated emergency response involving multiple agencies
- Maintain centralized emergency management system
- Receive mayday messages and security alarms, determines an appropriate response, and either uses internal resources or contacts a local agency to provide that response
- Provide disaster and emergency traveler information including alerts, and advisories through television, and FM radio broadcasts
- Performs receiving Mayday messages and security alarms, determines an appropriate response and either uses internal resources or contacts a local agency to provide the response
- Interface with other transportation agencies to support coordinated emergency response invovling multiple agencies on BW Parkway and other NPS facilities in the DC-MD-VA region
- Interface with other transportation agencies to support coordinated emergency response invovling multiple agencies
- Provide emergency response plans or event plans
- Supports the coordination of ecavuation plans among federal, state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
- Track and manage emergency vehicle fleets using AVL technology and two way communications with vehicle fleet
- Supports the coordination of ecavuation plans among federal, state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
- Develop, propose and implement emergency control strategies during major emergencies (all signals on blink, contraflow etc)
- Provide emergency transit service for evacuation and major emergencies
- Notify travelers of emergency schedule information and fares
- Provide shelter and medical care during natural and man-made disasters
- Interface with other transportation management agencies to support coordinated emergency response involving multiple agencies
- Supports coordination of evacuation plans among federal state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
- Coordinates evacuation plans among allied agencies and manages evacuation and reentry of population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses as a risk to security
- Supports coordination of evacuation plans among federal state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
- Conduct offensive operations to mitigate a hazardous material emergency
- Coordinates evacuation plans among allied agencies and manages evacuation and reentry of population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses as a risk to security
- Performs receiving mayday messages and security alarms, determines an appropriate response, and either uses internal resources or contacts a local agency to provide that response
- Provide emergency response plans or event plans
- Maintain centralized emergency management system
- Create/Store and utilize emergency/incident response plans to facilitate coordinated response
- Supports the coordination of ecavuation plans among federal, state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
- Provide security for public facilities owned by agency
- Monitor video images and audio surveillance data collected in secure areas inclduing those freqented by travelers and those typically away from travelers ( tunnels, bridges, roadway infrastructure etc)
- Conduct offensive operations to mitigate a hazardous material emergency
- Use real-time traffic information recevied from other transportation agencies to aid the dispatcher in selecting the emergency vehicles and routes that will provide a timely response