Emergency Management for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture

• 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 external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
• Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
• Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
• Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
• 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.
• Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
• Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.

• Coordinate regional evacuation plans and resources including transit and school bus fleets.
• Provide interactive traveler information including routes, schedules, transfer options, fares, real-time schedule adherence, current incidents, weather conditions, yellow pages, and special events to travelers (on-board transit vehicles, at stops/stations, using personal devices), traveler information service providers, media, and other transit organizations.
• Alert operators, travelers, and police to potential incidents identified by these security features.
• Disable a transit vehicle remotely when required.
• Authenticate transit vehicle operators.
• Support evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency.
• Monitor transit vehicle operator or traveler activated alarms.

• Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
• 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.
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• 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.
• Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
• Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
• Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
• Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
• Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
• Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
• Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• 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.
• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• 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.

• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
• Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
• Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.

• 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.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
• Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
• 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 and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
• Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
• Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
• Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
• Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• 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.
• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• 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.
• Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.

• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
• Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
• Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
• 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.
• Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
• 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.
• Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
• Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• Support coordinated response to incidents.
• Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
• 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.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
• Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
• 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.
• Share incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
• Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.
• 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.
• Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
• 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.
• Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
• 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.
• Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.

• Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).

• Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
• Gather dispatch and routing information from an emergency vehicle using on-board equipment for vehicle tracking and communications with care facilities.
• Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
• Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
• Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
• Request signal preemption via short range communication directly from the emergency vehicle to the traffic control equipment on the roadside.
• 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.
• Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
• Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
• Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
• 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.
• Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.
• 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.
• Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• Dispatch and communication with roadway service patrol vehicles that monitor roads to aid motorists, offering rapid response to minor incidents.
• Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.