VDOT Districts

Definition:

VDOT Districts represent the VDOT Districts NOVA - Richmond - Fredericksburg - Culpepper - Staunton - Bristol - Salem - Lynchburg - Hampton Roads. Most of the VDOT district has its own Traffic Management Center.

Inventory Elements:

• VDOT Local Traffic Operations Centers

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Systems for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Select and format data residing in an ITS archive to facilitate local, state, and federal government data reporting requirements.
• Collect and store maintenance and construction information for use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.
• Perform quality checks, error notification, and archive coordination.
• 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 traffic management data 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 maintain data and data catalogs from one or more data sources.

Commercial Vehicle Operations for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• None defined

Electronic Toll Collection for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.

Emergency Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Support coordinated response to incidents.
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
• 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.
• Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
• 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.
• Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
• Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
• Share incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
• 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 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 sensors in areas such as transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
• Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
• Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
• 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.
• 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.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• 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.
• Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• 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.

Freeway Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• 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 traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).

Incident Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
• Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
• Support coordinated response to incidents.
• Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• 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.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
• Share incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
• 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.

Maintenance and Construction for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
• Coordinate work schedules, factoring in the needs and activities of other agencies and adjacent jurisdictions.
• Coordinate with maintenance systems using work zone images and traveler information systems (such as DMS).
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
• Distribute work plans so that work zones are established that have minimum traffic impact.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Disseminate work activity schedules and current asset restrictions to other agencies.

Traveler Information for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
• Provide personalized traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, multimodal, event, and weather information to traveler, upon request.
• Disseminate traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, event, and weather information to travelers.
• Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.