- VDOT Central Office
Roles and Responsibilities
- Assimilate collected environmental data with environmental probe data and other current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information from weather service providers and transportation operations.
- Assimilate collected environmental data with other current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information from weather service providers and roadway maintenance operations.
- 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.
- Coordinate with maintenance systems using work zone images and traveler information systems (such as DMS).
- Coordinate work schedules, factoring in the needs and activities of other agencies and adjacent jurisdictions.
- Disseminate road weather information to other agencies and centers.
- Disseminate work activity schedules and current asset restrictions to other agencies.
- Distribute work plans so that work zones are established that have minimum traffic impact.
- 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 and maintain environmental sensors remotely.
- Operate and maintain environmental sensors.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Process current and forecast weather data, road condition information and local environmental data, and use internal models to develop specialized detailed forecasts of local weather and surface conditions.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- VDOT Richmond District Residencies
Roles and Responsibilities
- Coordinate work schedules, factoring in the needs and activities of other agencies and adjacent jurisdictions.
- Disseminate work activity schedules and current asset restrictions to other agencies.
- 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
- Virginia State Police
Roles and Responsibilities
- Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
- Plan strategically for emergency response.
- Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
- VDOT Hampton Roads Operations
Roles and Responsibilities
- Monitor field equipment operational status and detect and report fault conditions.
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Provide field device status, configuration, and fault information to a traffic control center.
- Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission
Roles and Responsibilities
- 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
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- 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.
- City of Hampton Public Works Department
Roles and Responsibilities
- Monitor field equipment operational status and detect and report fault conditions.
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Provide field device status, configuration, and fault information to a traffic control center.
- City of Newport News Engineering Department
Roles and Responsibilities
- Monitor field equipment operational status and detect and report fault conditions.
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Provide field device status, configuration, and fault information to a traffic control center.
- City of Norfolk Public Works Department
Roles and Responsibilities
- Monitor field equipment operational status and detect and report fault conditions.
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Provide field device status, configuration, and fault information to a traffic control center.
- City of Suffolk Public Works Department
Roles and Responsibilities
- Monitor field equipment operational status and detect and report fault conditions.
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Provide field device status, configuration, and fault information to a traffic control center.
- City of Virginia Beach Public Works Department
Roles and Responsibilities
- Monitor field equipment operational status and detect and report fault conditions.
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Provide field device status, configuration, and fault information to a traffic control center.
- Local Signal Agencies
Roles and Responsibilities
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- City of Chesapeake Public Works Department
Roles and Responsibilities
- Provide enroute travel information to drivers (via dynamic message signs and highway advisory radio).
- Williamsburg Area Transport Authority (WATA)
Roles and Responsibilities
- Coordinate schedules with other agencies and modes, including transit transfer cluster and transfer point information.
- VDOT Hampton Roads District Residencies
Roles and Responsibilities
- Assimilate collected environmental data with environmental probe data and other current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information from weather service providers and transportation operations.
- Disseminate road weather information to other agencies and centers.
- Manage winter road maintenance, tracking and controlling snow plow operations, roadway treatment (e.g., salt spraying and other material applications) based on weather information.
- Monitor and support work zone activities remotely, controlling traffic through dynamic message signs (DMS), highway advisory radio, gates and barriers, and informing other groups of activity (e.g., traveler information systems, traffic management centers,
- Operate and maintain environmental sensors remotely.
- Process current and forecast weather data, road condition information and local environmental data, and use internal models to develop specialized detailed forecasts of local weather and surface conditions.
- Recommend courses of action including dispatch instructions based on current and forecast environmental and road conditions (filtered and fused for specific time horizons) and additional application specific information using Maintenance Decision Support
- Support routine non-winter maintenance on the roadway or right-of-way , such as landscape maintenance, hazard removal (roadway debris, dead animals), routine maintenance activities (roadway cleaning, grass cutting), and repair and maintenance of field equ
- Support snow plow operations and other roadway treatments (e.g., salt spraying and other material applications) using systems on-board a maintenance vehicle.
- Supports information sharing between maintenance vehicles including snow plows.
- Track vehicle location using on-board systems and report the position and timestamp information to the maintenance dispatch center.
