Stakeholder: VDOT Central Office

VDOT Central Office

Definition:

The VDOT Central Office in Richmond is responsible for statewide emergency transportation operations including TEOC, Asset Management and VaTraffic. It is also responsible for administering VDOT toll roads, public affairs and other non-operations systems as well as Statewide 511, RWIS, and ADMS programs.

Inventory Elements:

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Systems for Virginia Statewide Architecture

Collect and maintain data and data catalogs from one or more data sources.
Collects and archives traffic and environmental information directly from the roadside for use in off-line planning, research, and analysis.
Select and format data residing in an ITS archive to facilitate local, state, and federal government data reporting requirements.
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 maintenance and construction information for use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.
Perform advanced data analysis and mining features to support discovery of information, patterns, and correlations in large ITS archives.
Perform quality checks, error notification, and archive coordination.
Collect and store information related to public safety and emergency management for use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.

Commercial Vehicle Operations for Virginia Statewide Architecture

Respond to commercial vehicle and freight equipment related emergencies including incidents involving hazardous materials as well as the detection of non-permitted transport of security sensitive hazmat.
Receive and respond to Mayday messages from vehicles and drivers.

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

Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
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.
Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
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 safeguard systems remotely such as blast shields and tunnel exhaust systems that are used to mitigate the impact of incidents on transportation infrastructure.
Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
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.
Share incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
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.
Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
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.
Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
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.
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.
Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
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.
Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
Support coordinated response to incidents.
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.
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.

Freeway Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture

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).
Distribute current traffic conditions to other centers.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Monitor traffic sensors and surveillance (CCTV) equipment.
Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Collect current traffic conditions from sensors and surveillance equipment.
Plan strategically for emergency response.

Incident Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture

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.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
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.
Support coordinated response to incidents.
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.
Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.

Maintenance and Construction for Virginia Statewide Architecture

Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Operate and maintain environmental sensors.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
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.
Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
Disseminate road weather information to other agencies and centers.
Assimilate collected environmental data with other current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information from weather service providers and roadway maintenance operations.
Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.

Traveler Information for Virginia Statewide Architecture

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