Emergency Management

The NOVA region's public safety, emergency management, and other allied agency systems support incident management, disaster response and evacuation, security monitoring, and other security and public safety-oriented ITS applications. These systems includes the functions associated with fixed and mobile public safety communications centers including public safety call taker and dispatch centers operated by police (including transit police), fire, and emergency medical services. It includes the functions associated with Emergency Operations Centers that are activated at local, regional, state, and federal levels for emergencies and the portable and transportable systems that support Incident Command System operations at an incident. VDOT NOVA and VDOT Central Office manages sensor and surveillance equipment used to enhance transportation security of the roadway infrastructure (including bridges, tunnels, interchanges, and other key roadway segments) while transit agencies manage surveillance equipment on the public transportation system (including transit vehicles, public areas such as transit stops and stations, facilities such as transit yards, and transit infrastructure such as rail, bridges, tunnels, or bus guideways). Various regional agencies including VSP monitor alerts, advisories, and other threat information and prepare for and respond to identified emergencies. Coordinated emergency response involving multiple agencies is done through a regional set-up involving CapWIN, CapCOM, federal law enforcement agencies (FBI, Secret Service etc).

District of Columbia Public Safety and Emergency Management
  • Monitors and detects potential, looming and actual disasters including natural and man-made disasters
  • Conduct offensive operations to mitigate a hazardous material emergency
  • Coordinates evacuation plans among allied agencies and manages evacuation and reentry of population in teh vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses as a risk to security
  • Maitain centralized emergency management system
  • Supports coordination of evacuation plans among federal state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
  • Provide emergency response plans or event plans
  • Receive mayday messages and security alarms, determines an appropriate response, and either uses internal resources or contacts a local agency to provide that response
  • Recieve landline public safety calls and forward to appropriate dispatch center
  • Interface with other transportation management agencies to support coordinated emergency response involving multiple agencies
Federal Agencies
  • Create/Store and utilize emergency/incident response plans to facilitate coordinated response
  • Monitor and dectect potential, looming and actual disasters including natural and man-made disasters
Federal Law Enforcement Agencies
  • Supports coordination of evacuation plans among federal state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
  • Interface with other transportation agencies to support coordinated emergency response invovling multiple agencies
I-95 Corridor Coalition
  • Supports coordination of evacuation plans among federal state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
  • Interface with other transportation agencies to support coordinated emergency response invovling multiple agencies
Maryland Public Safety and Emergency Management
  • Provide emergency response plans or event plans
  • Track and manage emergency vehicle fleets using AVL technology and two way communications with vehicle fleet
  • Interface with other transportation agencies to support coordinated emergency response invovling multiple agencies
  • Supports the coordination of ecavuation plans among federal, state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
Maryland State Highway Administration (MDSHA)
  • Interface with other transportation agencies to support coordinated emergency response invovling multiple agencies
Media
  • Provide disaster and emergency traveler information including alerts, and advisories through television, and FM radio broadcasts
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA)
  • Performs receiving Mayday messages and security alarms, determines an appropriate response and either uses internal resources or contacts a local agency to provide the response
National Park Service/United States Park Police (NPS/USPP)
  • Interface with other transportation agencies to support coordinated emergency response invovling multiple agencies on BW Parkway and other NPS facilities in the DC-MD-VA region
Northern Region Traffic Agencies
  • Develop, propose and implement emergency control strategies during major emergencies (all signals on blink, contraflow etc)
  • Supports the coordination of ecavuation plans among federal, state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
NRO Local Public Safety Agencies
  • Supports the coordination of ecavuation plans among federal, state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
  • Provide emergency response plans or event plans
  • Interface with other transportation agencies to support coordinated emergency response invovling multiple agencies
  • Track and manage emergency vehicle fleets using AVL technology and two way communications with vehicle fleet
NRO Local Transit Agencies
  • Notify travelers of emergency schedule information and fares
  • Provide emergency transit service for evacuation and major emergencies
Shelter Provider
  • Provide shelter and medical care during natural and man-made disasters
VDOT NRO
  • Coordinates evacuation plans among allied agencies and manages evacuation and reentry of population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses as a risk to security
  • Supports coordination of evacuation plans among federal state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
  • Interface with other transportation management agencies to support coordinated emergency response involving multiple agencies
Virginia Public Safety and Emergency Management
  • Interface with other transportation management agencies to support coordinated emergency response involving multiple agencies
  • Performs receiving mayday messages and security alarms, determines an appropriate response, and either uses internal resources or contacts a local agency to provide that response
  • Supports coordination of evacuation plans among federal state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
  • Maintain centralized emergency management system
  • Conduct offensive operations to mitigate a hazardous material emergency
  • Coordinates evacuation plans among allied agencies and manages evacuation and reentry of population in teh vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses as a risk to security
  • Provide emergency response plans or event plans
  • Recieve landline public safety calls and forward to appropriate dispatch center
  • Monitors and detects potential, looming and actual disasters including natural and man-made disasters
Virginia State Police
  • Supports coordination of evacuation plans among federal state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
  • Provide emergency response plans or event plans
  • Coordinates evacuation plans among allied agencies and manages evacuation and reentry of population in teh vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses as a risk to security
  • Conduct offensive operations to mitigate a hazardous material emergency
  • Performs receiving mayday messages and security alarms, determines an appropriate response, and either uses internal resources or contacts a local agency to provide that response
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)
  • Maintain centralized emergency management system
  • Supports the coordination of ecavuation plans among federal, state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
  • Create/Store and utilize emergency/incident response plans to facilitate coordinated response
  • Monitor video images and audio surveillance data collected in secure areas inclduing those freqented by travelers and those typically away from travelers ( tunnels, bridges, roadway infrastructure etc)
  • Provide security for public facilities owned by agency
  • Use real-time traffic information recevied from other transportation agencies to aid the dispatcher in selecting the emergency vehicles and routes that will provide a timely response
  • Conduct offensive operations to mitigate a hazardous material emergency