VDOT Central Office

Definition:

The VDOT Central Office in Richmond is responsible for statewide emergency transportation operations including TEOC, Asset Management and VaTraffic. It is also responsible for administering VDOT toll roads, public affairs and other non-operations systems as well as Statewide 511, RWIS, and ADMS programs.

Inventory Elements:

• VDOT ADMS
• VDOT Asset Management System
• VDOT Critical Infrastructure Security System
• VDOT ESS Weather Platform
• VDOT TEOC
• VDOT VaTraffic

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Systems for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• Perform quality checks, error notification, and archive coordination.
• Collect probe data from vehicles using short range communications.
• Collect and store information supporting the operations of traveler information service providers for use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.
• Collect and store information related to public safety and emergency management for use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.
• Collects and archives traffic and environmental information directly from the roadside for use in off-line planning, research, and analysis.
• Collect and store maintenance and construction information for use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.
• Collect and maintain data and data catalogs from one or more data sources.
• Select and format data residing in an ITS archive to facilitate local, state, and federal government data reporting requirements.

Commercial Vehicle Operations for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• None defined

Emergency Management for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• 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.
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• 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.
• Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.

Freeway Management for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• Operate and maintain field equipment that controls and sends data to other field equipment (such as environmental sensors that send data to a DMS or coordination between traffic controllers on adjacent intersections), without being controlled from a center.

Incident Management for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• Operate and maintain field equipment that controls and sends data to other field equipment (such as environmental sensors that send data to a DMS or coordination between traffic controllers on adjacent intersections), without being controlled from a center.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• 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.

Maintenance and Construction for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• Operate and maintain field equipment that controls and sends data to other field equipment (such as environmental sensors that send data to a DMS or coordination between traffic controllers on adjacent intersections), without being controlled from a center.
• Disseminate road weather information to other agencies and centers.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Collect weather information including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility from environmental sensors, surface and sub-surface.
• Collect road surface information including road surface temperature, moisture, ice formation, and salinity from environmental sensors, surface and sub-surface.
• 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.
• Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.

Parking Management for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• None defined

Surface Street Management for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• Operate and maintain field equipment that controls and sends data to other field equipment (such as environmental sensors that send data to a DMS or coordination between traffic controllers on adjacent intersections), without being controlled from a center.

Transit Services for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• 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.
• 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.

Traveler Information for Virginia NWR ITS Architecture
• Disseminate traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, event, and weather information to travelers.
• Provide personalized traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, multimodal, event, and weather information to traveler, upon request.