Emergency Management for Virginia Lynchburg District ITS Architecture

Service Packages

• PS09: Transportation Infrastructure Protection
• PS10: Wide-Area Alert
• PS11: Early Warning System
• PS12: Disaster Response and Recovery
• PS13: Evacuation and Reentry Management
• PS14: Disaster Traveler Information
• PS03: Emergency Vehicle Preemption - Lynchburg District
• PS03: Emergency Vehicle Preemption - VSP
• PS01: Emergency Routing - Lynchburg District
• PS01: Emergency Call-Taking and Dispatch - VSP
• PS01: Emergency Call-Taking and Dispatch - Lynchburg District
• PS01: Emergency Routing - VSP
• PS08: Roadway Service Patrols - VDOT Southwestern TOC

Stakeholders

• Virginia State Police

Roles and Responsibilities

• Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
• Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
• Gather dispatch and routing information from an emergency vehicle using on-board equipment for vehicle tracking and communications with care facilities.
• Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
• 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.
• 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.
• Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
• Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
• 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.
• 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.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
• 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.



• VDOT Southwestern Region

Roles and Responsibilities

• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage 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.
• Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
• Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
• Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
• 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.
• Gather dispatch and routing information from an emergency vehicle using on-board equipment for vehicle tracking and communications with care facilities.
• Manage and support routine maintenance on the roadway or right-of-way including landscape maintenance, hazard removal (roadway debris, dead animals), routine maintenance activities (roadway cleaning, grass cutting), and repair and maintenance of both ITS
• Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
• Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
• Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
• Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Request signal preemption via short range communication directly from the emergency vehicle to the traffic control equipment on the roadside.
• 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

• Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.
• Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
• 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.
• 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.
• Manage and support routine maintenance on the roadway or right-of-way including landscape maintenance, hazard removal (roadway debris, dead animals), routine maintenance activities (roadway cleaning, grass cutting), and repair and maintenance of both ITS
• Operate field equipment that receives vehicle signal priority requests and operates traffic signals accordingly.
• Share incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
• Support coordinated response to incidents.



• Local Transit Agencies

Roles and Responsibilities

• Allow communication between the vehicle, operator, and center.



• City of Danville Public Works Department

Roles and Responsibilities

• Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.
• Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
• 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).
• 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 sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
• Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.