Video Clearinghouses

Description: This stakeholder represents entities acting as an agent for video distribution in the region for various agencies including VDOT. VDOT policy allows up to three private contractors to serve as video clearinghouses.

Inventory Elements:

• Statewide Video Distribution Services

Projects:

• none

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Systems 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.
• Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).

Freeway Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).

Incident Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• 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
• 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.