I-95 Corridor Coalition

Description: The I–95 Corridor Coalition has public agencies along the I–95 corridor as its members. Member agencies share information with one another and sponsor projects together to improve transportation in the region.

Inventory Elements:

• IEN (Information Exchange Network)

Projects:

• none

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Systems for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Collect and store information supporting the operations of traveler information service providers for use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.
• Collect and store traffic management data for use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.
• Collect and store information related to public safety and emergency management for use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.

Commercial Vehicle Operations for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Receive and respond to Mayday messages from vehicles and drivers.
• Respond to commercial vehicle and freight equipment related emergencies including incidents involving hazardous materials as well as the detection of non-permitted transport of security sensitive hazmat.

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.
• 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.
• 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
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• 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 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.