Emergency Management for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture

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

• Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
• 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.
• 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.
• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• 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.

• Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
• Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
• Request signal preemption via short range communication directly from the emergency vehicle to the traffic control equipment on the roadside.
• Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.
• Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
• Gather dispatch and routing information from an emergency vehicle using on-board equipment for vehicle tracking and communications with care facilities.

• Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
• 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.
• 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.
• Share incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
• Support coordinated response to 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.
• Operate field equipment that receives vehicle signal priority requests and operates traffic signals accordingly.
• 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.

• Allow communication between the vehicle, operator, and center.

• Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Support coordinated response to incidents.
• Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
• Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.
• Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
• Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
• Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
• Gather dispatch and routing information from an emergency vehicle using on-board equipment for vehicle tracking and communications with care facilities.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• 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.
• Request signal preemption via short range communication directly from the emergency vehicle to the traffic control equipment on the roadside.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
• 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.
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
• 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 incident response with all appropriate cooperating 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.
• 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.
• Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
• Share incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
• Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.

• Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
• Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
• Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
• 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.
• 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.
• Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.
• Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
• 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.
• Gather dispatch and routing information from an emergency vehicle using on-board equipment for vehicle tracking and communications with care facilities.
• Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• 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.
• Request signal preemption via short range communication directly from the emergency vehicle to the traffic control equipment on the roadside.
• Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.