Emergency Response Management

Strategic emergency planning and response capabilities and broad inter-agency interfaces to support large-scale incidents and disasters, commonly associated with Emergency Operations Centers.

1. The center shall provide strategic emergency response capabilities such as that of an Emergency Operations Center for large-scale incidents and disasters.
2. The center shall manage coordinated inter-agency responses to and recovery from large-scale emergencies. Such agencies include traffic management, transit, maintenance and construction management, rail operations, and other emergency management agencies.
3. The center shall provide the capability to implement response plans and track progress through the incident by exchanging incident information and distributing response status to allied agencies.
4. The center shall develop, coordinate with other agencies, and store emergency response plans.
5. The center shall track the availability of resources (including vehicles, roadway cleanup, etc.), request additional resources from traffic, maintenance, or other emergency centers if needed.
6. The center shall allocate the appropriate emergency services, resources, and vehicle (s) to respond to incidents, and shall provide the capability to override the current allocation to suit the special needs of a current incident.
7. The center shall receive event scheduling information from Event Promoters.
8. The center shall provide the capability to request transit resource availability from transit centers for use during disaster and evacuation operations.
9. The center shall provide information to the media concerning the status of an emergency response.
10. The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to provide inputs to the management of incidents, disasters and evacuations.