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NNS Operations Center

Status:

Existing

Definition:

Norfolk Naval Station occupies about 3,400 acres of Hampton Roads real estate in a peninsula known as Sewells Point. It is the world's largest Naval Station; in fact, based on supported military population, it is the largest military station in the world.

Stakeholder:

Norfolk Naval Station (NNS)

Architecture Flow Diagrams
which include NNS Operations Center:

• NNS Operations Center APM-Maersk Terminals Operations Center
• NNS Operations Center City of Norfolk STC
• NNS Operations Center Federal Law Enforcement
• NNS Operations Center National Weather Service
• NNS Operations Center NAWAS
• NNS Operations Center NNS Field Equipment
• NNS Operations Center VPA Terminals Operations Center

Architecture Flows
to/from the NNS Operations Center:

NNS Operations Center APM-Maersk Terminals Operations Center

• traffic information coordination

NNS Operations Center City of Norfolk STC

• transportation information for operations

NNS Operations Center Federal Law Enforcement

• alert notification coordination

NNS Operations Center NAWAS

• alert status

NNS Operations Center NNS Field Equipment

• roadway information system data


• traffic sensor control


• video surveillance control

NNS Operations Center VPA Terminals Operations Center

• incident information

City of Norfolk STCNNS Operations Center

• transportation information for operations

Federal Law EnforcementNNS Operations Center

• alert notification

National Weather ServiceNNS Operations Center

• weather information

NAWASNNS Operations Center

• alert notification


• alerts and advisories

NNS Field EquipmentNNS Operations Center

• signal control status


• traffic flow


• traffic images

VPA Terminals Operations CenterNNS Operations Center

• incident information

National ITS Architecture Subsystems
mapped to the NNS Operations Center:

• Information Service Provider Subsystem
• Traffic Management Subsystem

National ITS Architecture Services
associated with NNS Operations Center:

• MC08 - Work Zone Management - Cities -- (Graphic)

National ITS Architecture Functional Requirements
associated with NNS Operations Center:

TMC Traffic Information Dissemination

1. The center shall retrieve locally stored traffic information, including current and forecasted traffic information, road and weather conditions, traffic incident information, information on diversions and alternate routes, closures, and special traffic restrictions (lane/shoulder use, weight restrictions, width restrictions, HOV requirements), and the definition of the road network itself.
2. The center shall distribute traffic data to maintenance and construction centers, transit centers, emergency management centers, and traveler information providers.

TMC Incident Detection

1. The center shall receive inputs from the Alerting and Advisory System concerning the possibility or occurrence of severe weather, terrorist activity, or other major emergency, including information provided by the Emergency Alert System.
2. The center shall exchange incident and threat information with emergency management centers as well as maintenance and construction centers; including notification of existence of incident and expected severity, location, time and nature of incident.
3. The center shall provide road network conditions and traffic images to emergency management centers to support the detection, verification, and classification of incidents.

Traffic Data Collection

1. The center shall collect traffic management data such as operational data, event logs, etc.
2. The center shall assign quality control metrics and meta-data to be stored along with the data. Meta-data may include attributes that describe the source and quality of the data and the conditions surrounding the collection of the data.
3. The center shall receive and respond to requests from ITS Archives for either a catalog of the traffic data or for the data itself.
4. The center shall be able to produce sample products of the data available.