Stakeholder: VDOT SWRO Region

VDOT SWRO Region

Definition:

The VDOT SWRO Region operates and manages the VDOT roadways and facilities in the Southwestern Regional Operations area defined by the VDOT Bristol District, VDOT Salem District and VDOT Lynchburg District. The SWRO Region operates the Traffic Operations Center and the Traffic Signal System, operates snow plows and the safety service patrol.

Inventory Elements:

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Systems for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture

Collect and maintain data and data catalogs from one or more data sources.
Perform quality checks, error notification, and archive coordination.

Commercial Vehicle Operations for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture

None defined

Emergency Management for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture

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

Freeway Management for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture

Distribute current traffic conditions to other centers.
Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Monitor traffic sensors and surveillance (CCTV) equipment.
Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.
Share traffic information with other traffic management centers.
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.
Collect current traffic conditions from sensors and surveillance equipment.
Control ramp meters, interchange connector meters, lane control signals, mainline meters, and variable speed control systems remotely.
Allow control of field equipment by other traffic management centers.
Monitor traffic conditions using field equipment (i.e. loop detectors and CCTV cameras).
Operate and maintain freeway control equipment including ramp meters, mainline metering, and lane control equipment which controls traffic on freeways, including indicators to drivers.

Incident Management for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture

Share incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Monitor traffic conditions to identify incidents.
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.
Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
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.
Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
Support coordinated response to incidents.
Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
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 SWR ITS Architecture

Disseminate work activity schedules and current asset restrictions to other agencies.
Monitor vehicle and equipment condition.
Tracks the location of maintenance and construction vehicles and other equipment remotely.
Tracks vehicle maintenance history.
Monitor and control traffic and provide information directly to drivers in maintenance and construction areas using field equipment including CCTV cameras, driver information systems (such as DMS), and gates/barriers.
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.
Manage winter road maintenance, tracking and controlling snow plow operations, roadway treatment (e.g., salt spraying and other material applications) based on weather information.
Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
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.
Coordinate with maintenance systems using work zone images and traveler information systems (such as DMS).
Distribute work plans so that work zones are established that have minimum traffic impact.
Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
Collect road surface information including road surface temperature, moisture, ice formation, and salinity from environmental sensors, surface and sub-surface.
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.
Assimilate collected environmental data with other current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information from weather service providers and roadway maintenance operations.
Recommend courses of action including dispatch instructions based on current and forecast environmental and road conditions (filtered and fused for specific time horizons) and additional application specific information using Maintenance Decision Support Systems.
Monitor and support work zone activities remotely, controlling traffic through dynamic message signs (DMS), highway advisory radio, gates and barriers, and informing other groups of activity (e.g., traveler information systems, traffic management centers, other maintenance and construction centers).
Coordinate work schedules, factoring in the needs and activities of other agencies and adjacent jurisdictions.
Collect weather information including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility from environmental sensors, surface and sub-surface.
Disseminate road weather information to other agencies and centers.
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.
Send the location of the maintenance and construction vehicles and other equipment to the maintenance center operator.
Operate and maintain environmental sensors.
Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
Schedules routine and corrective maintenance.

Parking Management for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture

None defined

Surface Street Management for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture

Monitor traffic conditions using field equipment (i.e. loop detectors and CCTV cameras).
Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.
Share traffic information with other traffic management centers.
Allow control of field equipment by other traffic management centers.
Distribute current traffic conditions to other centers.
Collect current traffic conditions from sensors and surveillance equipment.
Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
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 traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Control ramp meters, interchange connector meters, lane control signals, mainline meters, and variable speed control systems remotely.
Monitor traffic sensors and surveillance (CCTV) equipment.

Transit Services for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture

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.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
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.

Traveler Information for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture

Disseminate traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, event, and weather information to travelers.