Incident Management for Virginia Bristol ITS Architecture

Service Packages

• PS02: Emergency Response
• TM08: Traffic Incident Management System

Stakeholders

• Virginia State Police

Roles and Responsibilities

• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
• 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.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.



• VDOT Southwest Operations

Roles and Responsibilities

• Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
• 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 external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
• Monitor traffic conditions to identify incidents.
• Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
• Operate and maintain field equipment that controls and sends data to other field equipment (such as environmental sensors that send data to a DMS or coordination between traffic controllers on adjacent intersections), without being controlled from a cente
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
• 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.
• Share incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Support coordinated response to incidents.
• Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.



• Local Public Safety Agencies

Roles and Responsibilities

• Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
• Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
• Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
• Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.



• Local Public Works Agencies

Roles and Responsibilities

• Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
• 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.
• Share incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
• Support coordinated response to incidents.