Maryland State Highway Administration (MDSHA)

Description: The Maryland State Highway Administration is responsible for managing and operating the roadways in Maryland. MDSHA operates the CHART system.

Stakeholder Groups Associated With:

• Metropolitan Area Transportation Operations Coordination (MATOC)

Inventory Elements:

• MDSHA CHART SOC

Projects:

• none

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Systems for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• None defined

Commercial Vehicle Operations for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• None defined

Electronic Toll Collection for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.

Emergency Management for Virginia Statewide 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.
• Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
• 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.
• Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
• Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
• 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.
• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
• Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
• Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
• Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
• 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.
• Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
• Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
• Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).

Freeway Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Monitor traffic sensors and surveillance (CCTV) equipment.
• Collect current traffic conditions from sensors and surveillance equipment.
• Distribute current traffic conditions to other centers.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
• Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).

Incident Management for Virginia Statewide 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.
• Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
• Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
• Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
• 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.
• Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.

Maintenance and Construction for Virginia Statewide 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.
• 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.

Traveler Information for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Disseminate traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, event, and weather information to travelers.
• Provide personalized traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, multimodal, event, and weather information to traveler, upon request.
• Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
• Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.