Emergency Management for Virginia CR ITS Architecture

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
• Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• 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.
• Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
• 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.
• 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.
• Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
• Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
• Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).

• Authenticate transit vehicle operators.
• Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
• Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
• Monitor transit vehicle operator or traveler activated alarms.
• Dispatch emergency vehicles to 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.
• 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.
• Disable a transit vehicle remotely when required.
• Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
• Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
• Alert operators, travelers, and police to potential incidents identified by these security features.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.

• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• 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.
• Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
• Authenticate transit vehicle operators.
• Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
• Alert operators, travelers, and police to potential incidents identified by these security features.
• Monitor transit vehicle operator or traveler activated alarms.
• 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.

• Provide real-time travel-related information at transit stops and multi-modal transfer points, including general annunciation, display of imminent arrival information, the latest available information on transit routes, schedules, transfer options, available services, fares, and real-time schedule adherence.

• Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.

• Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
• 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.
• Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
• Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
• 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.
• 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.

• Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, 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.
• Roadside collection of tolls from vehicle toll tags and violation identification.

• Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
• Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
• Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.
• Operate and maintain barrier systems such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
• Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
• 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.
• Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
• Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).

• Gather dispatch and routing information from an emergency vehicle using on-board equipment for vehicle tracking and communications with care facilities.
• Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
• Dispatch and communication with roadway service patrol vehicles that monitor roads to aid motorists, offering rapid response to minor incidents.
• Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
• Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
• Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
• 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.
• Request signal preemption via short range communication directly from the emergency vehicle to the traffic control equipment on the roadside.
• Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.

• Roadside collection of tolls from vehicle toll tags and violation identification.

• Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
• 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.
• Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
• Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
• Gather dispatch and routing information from an emergency vehicle using on-board equipment for vehicle tracking and communications with care facilities.
• 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.
• Request signal preemption via short range communication directly from the emergency vehicle to the traffic control equipment on the roadside.
• 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.
• Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.