Maryland State Highway Administration (MDSHA)

Definition:

The Maryland State Highway Administration is responsible for managing and operating the roadways in Maryland. MDSHA operates the CHART system.

Stakeholder Groups Associated With:

• Metropolitan Area Transportation Operations Coordination (MATOC)

Inventory Elements:

• MDSHA CHART SOC

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Systems for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• None defined

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
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• 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 barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
• 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.
• Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
• Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
• Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
• Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
• Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
• 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.
• Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.

Freeway Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Distribute current traffic conditions to other centers.
• Collect current traffic conditions from sensors and surveillance equipment.
• 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).
• Plan strategically for emergency response.

Incident Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• 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.
• Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
• 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.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.

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.
• 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 current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.

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