- GRTC Transit
Roles and Responsibilities
- Alert operators, travelers, and police to potential incidents identified by these security features.
- Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
- Authenticate transit vehicle operators.
- Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
- Monitor transit vehicle operator or traveler activated alarms.
- 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.
- 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.
- City of Richmond Public Works
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.
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- 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.
- Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
- Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- Richmond Metropolitan Authority
Roles and Responsibilities
- Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
- 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.
- Petersburg Area Transit
Roles and Responsibilities
- 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, availa
- VDOT Richmond District Office
Roles and Responsibilities
- Dispatch and communication with roadway service patrol vehicles that monitor roads to aid motorists, offering rapid response to minor incidents.
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Virginia State Police
Roles and Responsibilities
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- VDOT Toll Facilities
Roles and Responsibilities
- Roadside collection of tolls from vehicle toll tags and violation identification.
- Private Sector ISPs
Roles and Responsibilities
- Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
- VDOT Richmond District Regional Operations
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.
- 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.
- Operate and maintain barrier systems such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
- 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).
- Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
- Local Public Safety Agencies
Roles and Responsibilities
- Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
- Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
- Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
- Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
- 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 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.
- 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.
