- VDOT Central Office
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.
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
- 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 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.
- Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
- 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
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- VDOT Richmond District Residencies
Roles and Responsibilities
- 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
- Share incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
- Support coordinated response to incidents.
- Virginia State Police
Roles and Responsibilities
- Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
- 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.
- Federal Law Enforcement
Roles and Responsibilities
- 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.
- Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
- VDOT Hampton Roads Operations
Roles and Responsibilities
- Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
- 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.
- 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.
- Disseminate threat information to other 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.
- 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.
- 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 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 barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
- 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 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.
- Roadside collection of tolls from vehicle toll tags and violation identification.
- 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission
Roles and Responsibilities
- Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
- Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
- 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.
- 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.
- Roadside collection of tolls from vehicle toll tags and violation identification.
- Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.
- Virginia Port Authority
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 sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
- Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
- Norfolk Naval Station (NNS)
Roles and Responsibilities
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- 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.
- City of Hampton Public Works Department
Roles and Responsibilities
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- 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.
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
- City of Newport News Engineering 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.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- 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.
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
- City of Norfolk 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.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- 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.
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
- City of Suffolk 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.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- 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.
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
- City of Virginia Beach 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.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Hampton Roads Local Public Safety Agencies
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Local Signal 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.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- City of Chesapeake Public Works Department
Roles and Responsibilities
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- 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.
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
- Navy
Roles and Responsibilities
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- 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.
