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NWR Local Public Safety Agencies

Definition:

NWR Local Public Safety Agencies are responsible for providing public safety in the forms of police, fire and EMS throughout the Northwestern Region Operations Area including albemarle and Fauquier county.

Inventory Elements:

• City and County PSAPs
• NWR Local Public Safety Centers
• NWR Local Public Safety Vehicles

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Systems for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• None defined

Commercial Vehicle Operations for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• Receive and respond to Mayday messages from vehicles and drivers.

Emergency Management for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
• 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.
• 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.
• Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
• Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
• 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.
• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• 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.
• Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
• Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.

Freeway Management for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• None defined

Incident Management for Virginia NWR 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 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.

Maintenance and Construction for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.

Surface Street Management for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• None defined

Transit Services for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• Collect and respond to silent and audible alarms received from travelers in secure areas (such as transit stops, rest areas, park-and-ride lots) and from on-board transit vehicles.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• 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.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• 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.

Traveler Information for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• None defined