Early Warning System
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This market package monitors and detects potential, looming, and actual disasters including natural disasters (hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, winter storms, tsunamis, etc.) and technological and man-made disasters (hazardous materials incidents, nuclear power plant accidents, and acts of terrorism including nuclear, chemical, biological, and radiological weapons attacks). The market package monitors alerting and advisory systems, ITS sensors and surveillance systems, field reports, and emergency call-taking systems to identify emergencies and notifies all responding agencies of detected emergencies.
Elements Associated with Early Warning System
- Adjacent State DOT Systems
- City of Danville TMC
- LRA Center
- National Weather Service
- RRA Center
- SWR Local Public Safety Centers
- SWR Local Public Safety Mobile Centers
- SWR Local Signal Centers
- SWR Local Transit Center
- VDOT Big Walker Mountain Tunnel
- VDOT Critical Infrastructure Security System
- VDOT East River Mountain Tunnel
- VDOT Lynchburg District Public Information Office
- VDOT Richmond TOC
- VDOT Salem TOC
- VDOT Staunton TOC
- VDOT SWR Maintenance Residencies
- VDOT TEOC
- VSP Center
- VSP Mobile Unified Command Center