Maintenance and Construction for Virginia ER ITS Architecture

Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission
  • Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
  • Operate and maintain field equipment that controls and sends data to other field equipment (such as environmental sensors that send data to a DMS or coordination between traffic controllers on adjacent intersections), without being controlled from a center.
City of Chesapeake Public Works Department
  • Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
City of Hampton Public Works Department
  • Monitor field equipment operational status and detect and report fault conditions.
  • Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
  • Provide field device status, configuration, and fault information to a traffic control center.
City of Newport News Engineering Department
  • Provide field device status, configuration, and fault information to a traffic control center.
  • Monitor field equipment operational status and detect and report fault conditions.
  • Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
City of Norfolk Public Works Department
  • Provide field device status, configuration, and fault information to a traffic control center.
  • Monitor field equipment operational status and detect and report fault conditions.
  • Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
City of Suffolk Public Works Department
  • Provide field device status, configuration, and fault information to a traffic control center.
  • Monitor field equipment operational status and detect and report fault conditions.
  • Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
City of Virginia Beach Public Works Department
  • Monitor field equipment operational status and detect and report fault conditions.
  • Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
  • Provide field device status, configuration, and fault information to a traffic control center.
Hampton Roads District Local Signal Agencies
  • Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
VDOT Central Office
  • Disseminate work activity schedules and current asset restrictions to other agencies.
  • Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
  • Manage and support routine maintenance on the roadway or right-of-way including landscape maintenance, hazard removal (roadway debris, dead animals), routine maintenance activities (roadway cleaning, grass cutting), and repair and maintenance of both ITS and non-ITS equipment.
  • Distribute work plans so that work zones are established that have minimum traffic impact.
  • Coordinate with maintenance systems using work zone images and traveler information systems (such as DMS).
  • Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
  • Assimilate collected environmental data with environmental probe data and other current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information from weather service providers and transportation operations.
  • Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
  • Operate and maintain environmental sensors remotely.
  • Process current and forecast weather data, road condition information and local environmental data, and use internal models to develop specialized detailed forecasts of local weather and surface conditions.
  • Assimilate collected environmental data with other current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information from weather service providers and roadway maintenance operations.
  • Operate and maintain environmental sensors.
  • Coordinate work schedules, factoring in the needs and activities of other agencies and adjacent jurisdictions.
  • 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.
  • Disseminate road weather information to other agencies and centers.
  • Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
  • Plan strategically for emergency response.
VDOT ERO Region
  • Monitor field equipment operational status and detect and report fault conditions.
  • Provide field device status, configuration, and fault information to a traffic control center.
  • Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
VDOT Hampton Roads District Residencies
  • Process current and forecast weather data, road condition information and local environmental data, and use internal models to develop specialized detailed forecasts of local weather and surface conditions.
  • Track vehicle location using on-board systems and report the position and timestamp information to the maintenance dispatch center.
  • Support routine non-winter maintenance on the roadway or right-of-way , such as landscape maintenance, hazard removal (roadway debris, dead animals), routine maintenance activities (roadway cleaning, grass cutting), and repair and maintenance of field equipment, using systems on-board a maintenance vehicle.
  • Manage winter road maintenance, tracking and controlling snow plow operations, roadway treatment (e.g., salt spraying and other material applications) based on weather information.
  • Operate and maintain environmental sensors remotely.
  • Monitor and support work zone activities remotely, controlling traffic through dynamic message signs (DMS), highway advisory radio, gates and barriers, and informing other groups of activity (e.g., traveler information systems, traffic management centers, other maintenance and construction centers).
  • Supports information sharing between maintenance vehicles including snow plows.
  • Support snow plow operations and other roadway treatments (e.g., salt spraying and other material applications) using systems on-board a maintenance vehicle.
  • Disseminate road weather information to other agencies and centers.
  • Assimilate collected environmental data with environmental probe data and other current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information from weather service providers and transportation operations.
  • Recommend courses of action including dispatch instructions based on current and forecast environmental and road conditions (filtered and fused for specific time horizons) and additional application specific information using Maintenance Decision Support Systems.
VDOT Richmond District Residencies
  • Coordinate work schedules, factoring in the needs and activities of other agencies and adjacent jurisdictions.
  • Disseminate work activity schedules and current asset restrictions to other agencies.
  • Manage and support routine maintenance on the roadway or right-of-way including landscape maintenance, hazard removal (roadway debris, dead animals), routine maintenance activities (roadway cleaning, grass cutting), and repair and maintenance of both ITS and non-ITS equipment.
Virginia Port Authority
  • Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
  • 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.
Virginia State Police
  • 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.
Williamsburg Area Transport
  • Coordinate schedules with other agencies and modes, including transit transfer cluster and transfer point information.