- VDOT Central Office
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.
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
- 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.
- Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
- Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
- 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.
- Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
- Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
- 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 sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
- 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.
- 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.
- Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
- Operate safeguard systems remotely such as blast shields and tunnel exhaust systems that are used to mitigate the impact of incidents on transportation infrastructure.
- 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.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- 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.
- 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.
- Share incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- Support coordinated response to incidents.
- Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
- Virginia State Police
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.
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
- Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
- Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
- Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
- 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.
- Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
- Gather dispatch and routing information from an emergency vehicle using on-board equipment for vehicle tracking and communications with care facilities.
- Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
- Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
- Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
- 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.
- 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.
- Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
- 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.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- 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.
- Request signal preemption via short range communication directly from the emergency vehicle to the traffic control equipment on the roadside.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
- VDOT Districts
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.
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
- Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
- Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.
- Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
- Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
- 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 sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
- 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.
- 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 and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- 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 incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- Support coordinated response to incidents.
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Roles and Responsibilities
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
- Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
- Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
- Virginia Public Safety and Emergency Management
Roles and Responsibilities
- Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
- Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
- Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
- 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.
- Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
- Maryland State Highway Administration (MDSHA)
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.
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
- Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
- Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.
- Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
- Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
- 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.
- Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
- Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
- 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.
- 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.
- Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
- 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.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- 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.
- Other County/State Governments
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.
- Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
- 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.
- 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 and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- 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.
- I-95 Corridor Coalition
Roles and Responsibilities
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
- Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
- Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
- Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
- 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.
- Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
- Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
- 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.
- 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.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- 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.
- Virginia DEM
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.
- Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
- Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- 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.
- Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
- Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
- Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
- Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
- 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.
- 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.
- Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
- 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.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- 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.
- 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.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
- Toll Collection Agencies
Roles and Responsibilities
- Roadside collection of tolls from vehicle toll tags and violation identification.
- Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP)
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.
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
- Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
- Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
- 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.
- 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 and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- 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.
- Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
- City of Bristol TN
Roles and Responsibilities
- Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
- Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- 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.
- Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
- Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
- Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
- Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
- 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.
- Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- 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.
- Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
- Sullivan County TN
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.
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
- Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
- Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
- 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.
- 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 and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- 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.
- Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
- Border 511 States
Roles and Responsibilities
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
- Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
- Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
- Share incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
- Support coordinated response to incidents.
- Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
Roles and Responsibilities
- 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.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- 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.
- Metropolitan Area Transportation Operations Coordination (MATOC)
Roles and Responsibilities
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
- Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
- Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
- 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.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- Federal Law Enforcement Agencies
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.
- Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
- 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.
- 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 and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- 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.
- 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.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- Video Clearinghouses
Roles and Responsibilities
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
- 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.
- Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
- Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
- 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.
- Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
- Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
- Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
- NCDOT
Roles and Responsibilities
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
- 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.
- Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.
- Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
- 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.
- Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
- Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
- 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.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- 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.
- 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.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
