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VDOT VaTraffic

Status:

Existing

Definition:

The Virginia Traffic Information Management System (VaTraffic), is an upgraded traffic information management system that replaced the Virginia Operational Information System (VOIS) and is currently use by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). VaTraffic is designed to improve VDOT operations by providing a more efficient and advanced integrated data management platform for managing a variety of activities that affect the quality of travel experienced by motorists in the Commonwealth. It is a network of applications that VDOT staff will use to manage planned events such as roadway maintenance, unplanned events such as traffic accidents, and to provide information for other VDOT systems. VaTraffic provides VDOT operations staff with an integrated tool to collect, monitor, update, and disseminate roadway information via the Data Gateway. VDOT staff also uses VaTraffic to direct information to the 511 Integrated Voice Recognition (IVR) system and 511 Website to provide pre-trip and en-route traveler information to the public and to other interested users within VDOT.

Stakeholder:

VDOT Central Office

Systems Interconnected
with the VDOT VaTraffic


Architecture Flow Diagrams
which include VDOT VaTraffic:

Architecture Flows
to/from the VDOT VaTraffic:

VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon George P. Coleman Bridge Toll Plaza VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon Hampton Roads District Local Signal Centers VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon Jamestown-Scotland Ferry VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) TOC VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT Hampton Roads District Maintenance and Construction Residencies VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT Hampton Roads TOC VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT Joint Berkley Bridge- Downtown Elizabeth River Tunnel TOC VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT Midtown Elizabeth River Tunnel TOC VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel (MMMBT) TOC George P. Coleman Bridge Toll Plazaflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic Hampton Roads District Local Signal Centersflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic James River Drawbridgeflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic Jamestown-Scotland Ferryflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic Jordan Drawbridgeflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic VDOT Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) TOCflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic VDOT Hampton Roads District Maintenance and Construction Residenciesflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic VDOT Hampton Roads TOCflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic VDOT Joint Berkley Bridge- Downtown Elizabeth River Tunnel TOCflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic VDOT Midtown Elizabeth River Tunnel TOCflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic VDOT Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel (MMMBT) TOCflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic

National ITS Architecture Subsystems
mapped to the VDOT VaTraffic:

National ITS Architecture Services
associated with VDOT VaTraffic:

National ITS Architecture Functional Requirements
associated with VDOT VaTraffic:

Incident Command
  1. The center shall provide incident command communications with public safety, emergency management, transportation, and other allied response agency centers.
  2. The center shall track and maintain resource information and action plans pertaining to the incident command.
  3. The center shall share incident command information with other public safety agencies including resource deployment status, hazardous material information, rail incident information, evacuation advice as well as traffic, road, and weather conditions.
Emergency Response Management
  1. The center shall provide strategic emergency response capabilities provided by an Emergency Operations Center for large-scale incidents and disasters.
  2. The center shall manage coordinated inter-agency responses to and recovery from large-scale emergencies. Such agencies include traffic management, transit, maintenance and construction management, rail operations, and other emergency management agencies.
  3. The center shall provide the capability to implement response plans and track progress through the incident by exchanging incident information and response status with allied agencies.
  4. The center shall develop, coordinate with other agencies, and store emergency response plans.
  5. The center shall track the availability of resources and coordinate resource sharing with allied agency centers including traffic, maintenance, or other emergency centers.
  6. The center shall allocate the appropriate emergency services, resources, and vehicle (s) to respond to incidents, and shall provide the capability to override the current allocation to suit the special needs of a current incident.
  7. The center shall receive event scheduling information from Event Promoters.
  8. The center shall support remote control of field equipment normally under control of the traffic management center including traffic signals, dynamic message signs, gates, and barriers.
  9. The center shall provide the capability to remotely control and monitor CCTV systems normally operated by a traffic management center.
  10. The center shall provide the capability to request transit resource availability from transit centers for use during disaster and evacuation operations.
  11. The center shall assimilate the damage assessment of the transit, traffic, rail, maintenance, and other emergency center services and systems to create an overall transportation system status, and disseminate to each of these centers and the traveling public via traveler information providers.
  12. The center shall provide information to the media concerning the status of an emergency response.
  13. The center shall provide the capability for digitized map data to act as the background to the information presented to the emergency system operator.
  14. The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to provide inputs to the management of incidents, disasters and evacuations.
  15. The center shall collect information about the status of the recovery efforts for the infrastructure during disasters.
  16. The center shall provide the overall status of infrastructure recovery efforts to traveler information providers and media.
  17. The center shall provide the capability to communicate information about emergency situations to local population through the Emergency Telecommunications System.
  18. The center shall provide the capability to identify neighborhoods and businesses that should be informed of an emergency situation based on information collected about incidents including their severity, impacted locations, and recovery schedule.
  19. The center shall retrieve information from public health systems to increase preparedness for, and implement a response to biological, chemical, radiation, and other public health emergencies.
Emergency Evacuation Support
  1. The center shall manage inter-agency coordination of evacuation operations, from initial planning through the evacuation process and reentry.
  2. The center shall develop and exchange evacuation plans with allied agencies prior to the occurrence of a disaster.
  3. The center shall provide an interface to the emergency system operator to enter evacuation plans and procedures and present the operator with other agencies’ plans.
  4. The center shall coordinate evacuation destinations and shelter needs with shelter providers (e.g., the American Red Cross) in the region.
  5. The center shall provide evacuation information to traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, rail operations, and other emergency management centers as needed.
  6. The center shall request resources from transit agencies as needed to support the evacuation.
  7. The center shall request traffic management agencies to implement special traffic control strategies and to control evacuation traffic, including traffic on local streets and arterials as well as the major evacuation routes.
  8. The center shall provide traveler information systems with evacuation guidance including basic information to assist potential evacuees in determining whether evacuation is necessary and when it is safe to return.
  9. The center shall monitor the progress or status of the evacuation once it begins and exchange tactical plans, prepared during the incident, with allied agencies.
  10. The center shall monitor the progress of the reentry process.
  11. The center shall submit evacuation information to toll administration centers along with requests for changes in the toll services or fee collection during an evacuation.
  12. The center shall retrieve information from public health systems to plan for and implement evacuations or in-place sheltering for biological, chemical, radiation, and other public health emergencies.
Emergency Transportation Operations Data Collection
  1. The center shall collect real-time information on the state of the regional transportation system including current traffic and road conditions, weather conditions, special event and incident information.
ISP Traveler Data Collection
  1. The center shall collect, process, and store traffic and highway condition information, including incident information, detours and road closures, event information, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes.
  2. The center shall collect, process, and store maintenance and construction information, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities.
  3. The center shall collect, process, and store transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information.
  4. The center shall collect, process, and store parking information, including location, availability, and fees.
  5. The center shall collect, process, and store toll fee information.
  6. The center shall collect, process, and store current and forecast road conditions and surface weather conditions.
  7. The center shall collect, process, and store event information.
  8. The center shall collect, process, and store air quality information.
Basic Information Broadcast
  1. The center shall disseminate traffic and highway condition information to travelers, including incident information, detours and road closures, event information, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes.
  2. The center shall disseminate maintenance and construction information to travelers, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities.
  3. The center shall disseminate transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information to travelers.
  4. The center shall disseminate parking information to travelers, including location, availability, and fees.
  5. The center shall disseminate toll fee information to travelers.
  6. The center shall disseminate weather information to travelers.
  7. The center shall disseminate event information to travelers.
  8. The center shall disseminate air quality information to travelers.
  9. The center shall provide the capability to support requests from the media for traffic and incident data.
  10. The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to control the type and update frequency of broadcast traveler information.
Interactive Infrastructure Information
  1. The center shall disseminate customized traffic and highway condition information to travelers, including incident information, detours and road closures, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes upon request.
  2. The center shall disseminate customized maintenance and construction information to travelers, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities upon request.
  3. The center shall disseminate customized transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information to travelers upon request.
  4. The center shall disseminate customized parking information to travelers, including location, availability, and fees upon request.
  5. The center shall disseminate customized toll fee information to travelers upon request.
  6. The center shall disseminate customized weather information to travelers upon request.
  7. The center shall disseminate customized multimodal transportation service information (for example, from ferry and airline operators), including transfer points and other information, to travelers upon request.
  8. The center shall disseminate customized event information to travelers upon request.
  9. The center shall disseminate customized air quality information to travelers upon request.
  10. The center shall provide all traveler information based on the traveler's current location or a specific location identified by the traveler, and filter or customize the provided information accordingly.
  11. The center shall accept traveler profiles for determining the type of personalized data to send to the traveler.
  12. The center shall manage payment for services, such as tolls, transit fares, parking lot charges, map updates, and advanced payment for tolls, and provide transaction success or failure details.
  13. The center shall support requests for traveler information and advanced payment for traveler services from commercial fleet operators.
  14. The center shall provide the capability to exchange information with another traveler information service provider current or predicted data for road links that are outside the area served by the local supplier.
  15. The center shall manage updates of digitized map data and provide updates to traveler interface systems upon request.
  16. The center shall provide the capability to support requests from the media for traffic and incident data.
  17. The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to control the type and update frequency of traveler information.
ISP Emergency Traveler Information
  1. The center shall disseminate emergency evacuation information to the traveler interface systems, including evacuation zones, shelter information, available transportation modes, road closures and detours, changes to transit services, and traffic and road conditions at the origin, destination, and along the evacuation routes.
  2. The center shall provide evacuation information to shelter providers.
  3. The center shall disseminate wide-area alert information to the traveler interface systems, including major emergencies such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, child abductions, severe weather watches and warnings, military activities, and law enforcement warnings.
  4. The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to control the type and update frequency of emergency and wide-area alert information distributed to travelers.
MCM Environmental Information Processing
  1. The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information using a combination of weather service provider information (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services) and local environmental sensor data.
MCM Incident Management
  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 alert information and status with emergency management centers. The information includes notification of a major emergency such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, or child abduction. The information may include the alert originator, the nature of the emergency, the geographic area affected by the emergency, the effective time period, etc.
  3. The center shall exchange incident and threat information with emergency management centers as well as traffic management centers; including notification of existence of incident and expected severity, location, time and nature of incident.
  4. The center shall coordinate planning for incidents with emergency management centers - including pre-planning activities for disaster response, evacuation, and recovery operations.
  5. The center shall exchange road network status assessment information with emergency management and traffic management centers including an assessment of damage sustained by the road network including location and extent of the damage, estimate of remaining capacity, required closures, alternate routes, necessary restrictions, and time frame for repair and recovery.
  6. The center shall provide work zone activities affecting the road network including the nature of the maintenance or construction activity, location, impact to the roadway, expected time(s) and duration of impact, anticipated delays, alternate routes, and suggested speed limits. This information may be augmented with images that provide a visual indication of current work zone status and traffic impacts.
  7. The center shall receive information indicating the damage sustained by transportation assets, derived from aerial surveillance, field reports, inspections, tests, and analyses to support incident management.
MCM Roadway Maintenance and Construction
  1. The center shall maintain an interface with asset management systems to track the inventory, restrictions, repair needs and status updates of transportation assets (pavement, bridges, signs, etc.) including location, installation and materials information, vendor/contractor, current maintenance status, standard height, width, and weight restrictions.
  2. The center shall receive equipment availability and materials storage status information from storage facilities to support the scheduling of roadway maintenance and construction activities.
  3. The center shall support an interface with a map update provider, or other appropriate data sources, through which updates of digitized map data can be obtained and used as a background for the scheduling of roadway maintenance and construction activities.
MCM Work Activity Coordination
  1. The center shall provide work zone activities affecting the road network including the nature of the maintenance or construction activity, location, impact to the roadway, expected time(s) and duration of impact, anticipated delays, alternate routes, and suggested speed limits. This information may be augmented with images that provide a visual indication of current work zone status and traffic impacts.
  2. The center shall provide status information about scheduled maintenance and construction activities including anticipated closures and impact to the roadway, alternate routes, anticipated delays, closure times, and durations. The information is provided to other management centers such as traffic, emergency, transit, traveler information providers, other maintenance centers, multimodal transportation providers, rail operations, and the media.
  3. The center shall collect and respond to feedback concerning scheduled maintenance and construction activities with other management centers such as traffic, emergency, transit, and rail operations.
  4. The center shall exchange information with administrative systems to support the planning and scheduling of maintenance and construction activities. This information includes: equipment and consumables resupply purchase request status, personnel qualifications including training and special certifications, environmental regulations and rules that may impact maintenance activities, and requests and project requirements from contract administration.
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.
TMC Incident Dispatch Coordination/Communication
  1. The center shall exchange alert information and status with emergency management centers. The information includes notification of a major emergency such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, or child abduction for distribution to the public. The information may include the alert originator, the nature of the emergency, the geographic area affected by the emergency, the effective time period, and information and instructions necessary for the public to respond to the alert. This may also identify specific information that should not be released to the public.
  2. The center shall exchange incident information with emergency management centers, maintenance and construction centers, transit centers, information service providers, and the media including description, location, traffic impact, status, expected duration, and response information.
  3. The center shall support an interface with a map update provider, or other appropriate data sources, through which updates of digitized map data can be obtained and used as a background for traffic incident management.
TMC Evacuation Support
  1. The center shall coordinate planning for evacuation with emergency management centers - including pre-planning activities such as establishing routes, areas to be evacuated, timing, etc.
  2. The center shall coordinate information and controls with other traffic management centers.
  3. The center shall coordinate execution of evacuation strategies with emergency management centers - including activities such as setting closures and detours, establishing routes, updating areas to be evacuated, timing the process, etc.
TMC Environmental Monitoring
  1. The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information using a combination of weather service provider information (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services), data from roadway maintenance operations, and environmental data collected from sensors deployed on and about the roadway.
TMC Work Zone Traffic Management
  1. The center shall collect operational status for the driver information systems equipment in work zones.
  2. The center shall receive proposed maintenance and construction work plans, analyze the activity as a possible incident, and provide work plan feedback to the sending center.