Emergency Management for Virginia CR ITS Architecture
City of Richmond Public Works- 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.
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
- 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.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
- Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
- Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
- 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 and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
- Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.
- 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.
- Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
- Monitor transit vehicle operator or traveler activated alarms.
- Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- Authenticate transit vehicle operators.
- Alert operators, travelers, and police to potential incidents identified by these security features.
- 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.
- Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
- Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
- Disable a transit vehicle remotely when required.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
- Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
- Monitor transit vehicle operator or traveler activated alarms.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
- Alert operators, travelers, and police to potential incidents identified by these security features.
- Authenticate transit vehicle operators.
- Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- Provide real-time travel-related information at transit stops and multi-modal transfer points, including general annunciation, display of imminent arrival information, the latest available information on transit routes, schedules, transfer options, available services, fares, and real-time schedule adherence.
- Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
- 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.
- Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- 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.
- Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
- 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.
- Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
- Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
- Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- 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.
- Roadside collection of tolls from vehicle toll tags and violation identification.
- Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
- Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
- Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
- Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
- Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.
- 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.
- Operate and maintain barrier systems 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).
- Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
- Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.
- Request signal preemption via short range communication directly from the emergency vehicle to the traffic control equipment on the roadside.
- 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.
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- Dispatch and communication with roadway service patrol vehicles that monitor roads to aid motorists, offering rapid response to minor incidents.
- Gather dispatch and routing information from an emergency vehicle using on-board equipment for vehicle tracking and communications with care facilities.
- Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
- Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
- Roadside collection of tolls from vehicle toll tags and violation identification.
- Gather dispatch and routing information from an emergency vehicle using on-board equipment for vehicle tracking and communications with care facilities.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- 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.
- Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
- Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
- Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- 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.
- Request signal preemption via short range communication directly from the emergency vehicle to the traffic control equipment on the roadside.
- Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
- 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.