VDOT Central Office
Description: The VDOT Central Office in Richmond is responsible for statewide emergency transportation operations including TEOC, Asset Management and VaTraffic. It is also responsible for administering VDOT toll roads, public affairs and other non–operations systems as well as Statewide 511, RWIS, and ADMS programs.
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Archived Data Systems for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
- Collect probe data from vehicles using short range communications.
Commercial Vehicle Operations for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
Electronic Toll Collection for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
Emergency Management for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
Freeway Management for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
Incident Management for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
Maintenance and Construction for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
- Collect weather information including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility from environmental sensors, surface and sub-surface.
- Collect road surface information including road surface temperature, moisture, ice formation, and salinity from environmental sensors, surface and sub-surface.
- 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.
- Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
Surface Street Management for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Transit Services for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and 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.
- 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.
- Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
Traveler Information for Virginia Richmond District ITS Architecture
- Disseminate traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, event, and weather information to travelers.
- Provide personalized traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, multimodal, event, and weather information to traveler, upon request.
- Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
Last Updated 2/26/2025