Virginia DEM

Description: Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) operates the Virginia Emergency Operations Center, located in Richmond. Responsible for operating the VDES mobile command center vehicle and other regionalized VDEM office and personnel extensions of the EOC.

Inventory Elements:

• Virginia EOC
• Virginia SWAN (Statewide Alert Network)

Projects:

• none

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Systems for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• 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
• None defined

Emergency Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• 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.
• Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Traveler Information for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• None defined