Maintenance and Construction

VDOT NOVA Maintenance and Construction Operations (MCO) is carried out through maintenance facilities through out the region. These Area Headquarters (AHQ) monitor and manage roadway infrastructure construction and maintenance activities. AHQ manages fleets of maintenance, construction, or special service vehicles (e.g., snow and ice control equipment). The AHQ centers receive a wide range of status information from these vehicles and perform vehicle dispatch, routing, and resource management for the vehicle fleets and associated equipment. AHQ centers also participate in incident response by deploying maintenance and construction resources to an incident scene, in coordination with other centers. A new division, the VDOT ITS IMC (Inspection, Maintenance, and Construction) manages the repair and maintenance of equipment such as traffic controllers, detectors, variable message signs, signals, pavement marking, traffic static signs, and other equipment associated with the operational roadway infrastructure.

• Provide numerous services for scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and construction of roadway system or right of way. Maintenance services would include landscape maintenance, hazard removal (roadway debris, dead animals), and routine maintenance activitiies (roadway cleaning, grass-cutting)
• Collects current road and weather conditions using data collected from environmental sensors deployed on or about the roadway.
• Communicates and tracks maintenance and construction vehicles and other equipment to ascertain progess of their activities
• Disseminate maintenance and construction activity coordination to centers that can utilize it as part of its operations, or to the ISPs who can provide the information to the travelers
• Maintain AVL systems for maintenance vehilces
• Peforms vehicle maintenance scheduling and manages both routine and corrective maintenance activities on vehicles and other MCO equipment
• Repair and maintain of ITS equpiment on the roadway (signs, traffic controllers, traffic detectors, DMS, signals, CCTV etc)
• Collect and archive maintenance and construction data for off-line planning, research and archiving
• Manages winter road maintenance, tracking and controlling snow plow operations, roadway treatment (e.g salt spraying and other material applications) based on weather information