Stakeholder: VDOT ERO Region

VDOT ERO Region

Definition:

The VDOT Eastern Region (Eastern Region Operations) operates and manages the VDOT roadways and facilities in the Eastern Regional Operations area defined by the Hamton Roads District.

Inventory Elements:

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Systems for Virginia ER ITS Architecture

Collect and store traffic management data for use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.
Collect and maintain data and data catalogs from one or more data sources.
Perform quality checks, error notification, and archive coordination.

Commercial Vehicle Operations for Virginia ER ITS Architecture

None defined

Electronic Toll Collection for Virginia ER ITS Architecture

Manage toll collection for private and commercial vehicles.
Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
Roadside collection of tolls from vehicle toll tags and violation identification.
Reconcile toll payments with financial institutions.
Send toll violation notification to enforcement agencies.

Emergency Management for Virginia ER ITS Architecture

Operate and maintain barrier systems such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
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.
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.
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.
Request signal preemption via short range communication directly from the emergency vehicle to the traffic control equipment on the roadside.
Dispatch and communication with roadway service patrol vehicles that monitor roads to aid motorists, offering rapid response to minor incidents.
Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
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.
Roadside collection of tolls from vehicle toll tags and violation identification.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
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.
Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.
Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
Gather dispatch and routing information from an emergency vehicle using on-board equipment for vehicle tracking and communications with care facilities.
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.
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.

Freeway Management for Virginia ER ITS Architecture

Control HOV lane sensors and HOV lane usage signals remotely.
Allow control of field equipment by other traffic management centers.
Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
Detect HOV violators and notify appropriate enforcement agency.
Operate and maintain freeway control equipment including ramp meters, mainline metering, and lane control equipment which controls traffic on freeways, including indicators to drivers.
Operate and maintain traffic sensors, surveillance, and automated reversible lane equipment and lane control signals to control traffic in reversible lanes.
Share traffic information with other traffic management centers.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Collect current traffic conditions from sensors and surveillance equipment.
Monitor traffic conditions using field equipment (i.e. loop detectors and CCTV cameras).
Control ramp meters, interchange connector meters, lane control signals, mainline meters, and variable speed control systems remotely.
Monitor traffic sensors and surveillance (CCTV) equipment.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
Remotely controls traffic sensors, surveillance, and automated reversible lane equipment and lane control signals to control traffic in reversible lanes.
Operate and maintain barrier systems such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
Operate and maintain HOV lane usage traffic sensors and display equipment to notify users of HOV lane status for control of traffic in HOV lanes on freeways.
Distribute current traffic conditions to other centers.

Incident Management for Virginia ER ITS Architecture

Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.
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.
Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
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 strategically for emergency response.
Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Monitor traffic conditions to identify incidents.
Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.

Maintenance and Construction for Virginia ER ITS Architecture

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).
Monitor field equipment operational status and detect and report fault conditions.

Parking Management for Virginia ER ITS Architecture

None defined

Surface Street Management for Virginia ER ITS Architecture

Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Monitor traffic sensors and surveillance (CCTV) equipment.
Collect current traffic conditions from sensors and surveillance equipment.
Distribute current traffic conditions to other centers.
Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
Control ramp meters, interchange connector meters, lane control signals, mainline meters, and variable speed control systems remotely.
Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
Remotely controls traffic sensors, surveillance, and automated reversible lane equipment and lane control signals to control traffic in reversible lanes.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
Operate and maintain barrier systems such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
Allow control of field equipment by other traffic management centers.
Operate and maintain traffic sensors, surveillance, and automated reversible lane equipment and lane control signals to control traffic in reversible lanes.
Operate and maintain traffic signal controllers for use at signalized intersections and pedestrian crossings.
Share traffic information with other traffic management centers.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Monitor traffic conditions using field equipment (i.e. loop detectors and CCTV cameras).

Transit Services for Virginia ER ITS Architecture

None defined

Traveler Information for Virginia ER ITS Architecture

Disseminate traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, event, and weather information to travelers.
Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.