VDOT Hampton Roads District Residencies

Definition:

VDOT Hampton Roads District Residencies represents the maintenance and construction operations within the boundary of the VDOT Hampton Roads District. Districts are responsible for providing oversight of residency activities, providing specialized services such as project design and structure inspection, and they set regional maintenance budgets and goals through a district maintenance program leadership group.

Inventory Elements:


Roles and Responsibilities:

    Archived Data Systems for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
    • Collect and store maintenance and construction information for use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.

    Emergency Management for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
    • None defined

    Freeway Management for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
    • 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).

    Incident Management for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
    • None defined

    Maintenance and Construction for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
    • 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).
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Operate and maintain environmental sensors remotely.
    • 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.

    Surface Street Management for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
    • 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).

    Transit Services for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
    • None defined

    Traveler Information for Virginia ER ITS Architecture
    • None defined