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VDOT VaTraffic

Status:

Existing

Definition:

The Virginia Traffic Information Management System (VaTraffic), is an upgraded traffic information management system that replaced the Virginia Operational Information System (VOIS) and is currently use by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). VaTraffic is designed to improve VDOT operations by providing a more efficient and advanced integrated data management platform for managing a variety of activities that affect the quality of travel experienced by motorists in the Commonwealth. It is a network of applications that VDOT staff will use to manage planned events such as roadway maintenance, unplanned events such as traffic accidents, and to provide information for other VDOT systems. VaTraffic provides VDOT operations staff with an integrated tool to collect, monitor, update, and disseminate roadway information. VDOT staff also uses VaTraffic to direct information to the 511 Integrated Voice Recognition (IVR) system and 511 Website to provide pre-trip and en-route traveler information to the public and to other interested users within VDOT.

Stakeholder:

VDOT Central Office

Systems Interconnected
with the VDOT VaTraffic


Architecture Flow Diagrams
which include VDOT VaTraffic:

Architecture Flows
to/from the VDOT VaTraffic:

VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon National Weather Service VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT ADMS VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT Asset Management System VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT District Maintenance and Construction Residencies VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT Hampton Roads TOC VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT NRO MPSTOC VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT Public Affairs VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT Richmond TOC VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT Roadway Conditions Database VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT Salem TOC VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT Staunton TOC VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon VDOT TEOC VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon Virginia EOC VDOT VaTraffic flows into icon Virginia Statewide 511 National Weather Serviceflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic VDOT ADMSflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic VDOT District Maintenance and Construction Residenciesflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic VDOT ESS Weather Platformflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic VDOT Hampton Roads TOCflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic VDOT NRO MPSTOCflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic VDOT Richmond TOCflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic VDOT Salem TOCflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic VDOT Staunton TOCflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic VDOT TEOCflows into iconVDOT VaTraffic

National ITS Architecture Subsystems
mapped to the VDOT VaTraffic:

National ITS Architecture Services
associated with VDOT VaTraffic:

National ITS Architecture Functional Requirements
associated with VDOT VaTraffic:

Emergency Call-Taking
  1. The center shall support the interface to the Emergency Telecommunications System (e.g. 911 or 7-digit call routing) to receive emergency notification information and provide it to the emergency system operator.
  2. The center shall receive emergency notification information from public transit systems and present the possible incident information to the emergency system operator.
Emergency Dispatch
  1. The center shall store and maintain the emergency service responses in an action log.
  2. The center shall provide the capability for digitized map data to act as the background to the information presented to the emergency system operator.
  3. The center shall receive traffic images to support dispatch of emergency vehicles.
Incident Command
  1. The center shall track and maintain resource information and action plans pertaining to the incident command.
  2. The center shall share incident command information with other public safety agencies including resource deployment status, hazardous material information, rail incident information, evacuation advice as well as traffic, road, and weather conditions.
Emergency Early Warning System
  1. The center shall monitor information from Alerting and Advisory Systems such as the Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs), the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS), etc. The information may include assessments (general incident and vulnerability awareness information), advisories (identification of threats or recommendations to increase preparedness levels), or alerts (information on imminent or in-progress emergencies).
  2. The center shall provide the capability to correlate alerts and advisories, incident information, and security sensor and surveillance data.
  3. The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to traffic management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
  4. The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to transit management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
  5. The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to toll administration centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
  6. The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to traveler information service providers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
  7. The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to maintenance centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
  8. The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to other emergency management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
  9. The center shall process status information from each of the centers that have been sent the wide-area alert.
  10. The center shall coordinate the broadcast of wide-area alerts and advisories with other emergency management centers.
  11. The center shall present the alert and advisory information and the status of the actions taken in response to the alert by the other centers to the emergency system operator as received from other system inputs.
  12. The center shall support the entry of alert and advisory information directly from the emergency system operator.
Emergency Response Management
  1. The center shall provide strategic emergency response capabilities provided by an Emergency Operations Center for large-scale incidents and disasters.
  2. The center shall receive event scheduling information from Event Promoters.
  3. The center shall provide the capability to request transit resource availability from transit centers for use during disaster and evacuation operations.
  4. The center shall assimilate the damage assessment of the transit, traffic, rail, maintenance, and other emergency center services and systems to create an overall transportation system status, and disseminate to each of these centers and the traveling public via traveler information providers.
  5. The center shall provide the capability for digitized map data to act as the background to the information presented to the emergency system operator.
  6. The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to provide inputs to the management of incidents, disasters and evacuations.
  7. The center shall collect information about the status of the recovery efforts for the infrastructure during disasters.
  8. The center shall provide the overall status of infrastructure recovery efforts to traveler information providers and media.
Emergency Evacuation Support
  1. The center shall provide an interface to the emergency system operator to enter evacuation plans and procedures and present the operator with other agencies’ plans.
  2. The center shall provide evacuation information to traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, rail operations, and other emergency management centers as needed.
  3. The center shall monitor the progress of the reentry process.
  4. The center shall retrieve information from public health systems to plan for and implement evacuations or in-place sheltering for biological, chemical, radiation, and other public health emergencies.
Emergency Environmental Monitoring
  1. The center shall collect current and forecast road and weather information from weather service providers (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services).
  2. The center shall collect current road and weather information from roadway maintenance operations.
  3. The center shall present the current and forecast road and weather information to the emergency system operator.
Center Secure Area Surveillance
  1. The center shall exchange surveillance data with other emergency centers.
Center Secure Area Sensor Management
  1. The center shall remotely monitor and control security sensor data collected in secure areas including facilities (e.g. transit yards) and transportation infrastructure (e.g. bridges, tunnels, interchanges, roadway infrastructure, and transit railways or guideways). The types of security sensor data include environmental threat (e.g. chemical agent, toxic industrial chemical, biological, explosives, and radiological sensors), infrastructure condition and integrity, intrusion and motion, and object detection sensors. The data may be raw or pre-processed in the field.
  2. The center shall exchange security sensor data with other emergency centers.
  3. The center shall exchange threat analysis data with Alerting and Advisory Systems and use that data in local threat analysis processing.
  4. The center shall disseminate threat information to other agencies, including traffic, transit, maintenance, rail operations, and other emergency management centers.
  5. The center shall monitor maintenance status of the security sensor field equipment.
Emergency Commercial Vehicle Response
  1. The center shall receive emergency notification information from commercial vehicles, commercial vehicle check stations, or commercial fleet operators and present the possible incident information to the emergency system operator. This may include detection of non-permitted transport of security sensitive hazmat, hazardous cargo spills, etc.
Emergency Data Collection
  1. The center shall collect emergency service data, emergency vehicle management data, emergency vehicle data, sensor and surveillance data, threat data, and incident data.
Emergency Transportation Operations Data Collection
  1. The center shall collect real-time information on the state of the regional transportation system including current traffic and road conditions, weather conditions, special event and incident information.
ISP Traveler Data Collection
  1. The center shall collect, process, and store traffic and highway condition information, including incident information, detours and road closures, event information, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes.
  2. The center shall collect, process, and store maintenance and construction information, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities.
  3. The center shall collect, process, and store transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information.
  4. The center shall collect, process, and store parking information, including location, availability, and fees.
  5. The center shall collect, process, and store toll fee information.
  6. The center shall collect, process, and store current and forecast road conditions and surface weather conditions.
  7. The center shall collect, process, and store event information.
  8. The center shall collect, process, and store air quality information.
Basic Information Broadcast
  1. The center shall disseminate traffic and highway condition information to travelers, including incident information, detours and road closures, event information, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes.
  2. The center shall disseminate maintenance and construction information to travelers, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities.
  3. The center shall disseminate transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information to travelers.
  4. The center shall disseminate parking information to travelers, including location, availability, and fees.
  5. The center shall disseminate toll fee information to travelers.
  6. The center shall disseminate weather information to travelers.
  7. The center shall disseminate event information to travelers.
  8. The center shall disseminate air quality information to travelers.
ISP Emergency Traveler Information
  1. The center shall disseminate emergency evacuation information to the traveler interface systems, including evacuation zones, shelter information, available transportation modes, road closures and detours, changes to transit services, and traffic and road conditions at the origin, destination, and along the evacuation routes.
  2. The center shall provide evacuation information to shelter providers.
  3. The center shall disseminate wide-area alert information to the traveler interface systems, including major emergencies such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, child abductions, severe weather watches and warnings, military activities, and law enforcement warnings.
ISP Data Collection
  1. The center shall collect traveler information data, such as parking lot data, rideshare data, road network use data, vehicle probe data, and other data from traveler information system operations.
  2. The center shall receive and respond to requests from ITS Archives for either a catalog of the traveler information data or for the data itself.