I-95 Corridor Coalition

Definition:

The I-95 Corridor Coalition has public agencies along the I-95 corridor as its members. Member agencies share information with one another and sponsor projects together to improve transportation in the region.

Inventory Elements:

• IEN (Information Exchange Network)

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Systems for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• 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.
• Collect and store information supporting the operations of traveler information service providers for use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.

Commercial Vehicle Operations for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Receive and respond to Mayday messages from vehicles and drivers.
• 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.

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
• Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
• 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.
• Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
• 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.
• Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
• 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).
• 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.
• Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
• 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
• Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.

Incident Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• 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.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• 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.
• Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
• Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
• Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.

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.
• Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.

Traveler Information for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• 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.
• Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.