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.

Inventory Elements:

• VDOT ADMS
• VDOT Asset Management System
• VDOT Critical Infrastructure Security System
• VDOT Customer Call Center
• VDOT ESS Weather Platform
• VDOT VaTraffic

Projects:

• I-64 Afton Mountain Safety Improvements: Exit 99 Interchange Lighting

Roles and Responsibilities:

Commercial Vehicle Operations for VDOT Staunton District ITS Architecture
• None defined

Data Management for VDOT Staunton District ITS Architecture
• None defined

Emergency Management for VDOT Staunton District ITS Architecture
• Collect current traffic conditions from sensors and surveillance equipment.
• 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.
• 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.
• Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
• 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.
• Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
• Disseminate threat information to other agencies.

Freeway Management for VDOT Staunton District ITS Architecture
• 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 center.

Incident Management for VDOT Staunton 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 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 center.
• 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.

Maintenance and Construction for VDOT Staunton District ITS Architecture
• Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
• Collect road surface information including road surface temperature, moisture, ice formation, and salinity from environmental sensors, surface and sub-surface.
• Collect weather information including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility from environmental sensors, surface and sub-surface.
• Disseminate road weather information to other agencies and centers.
• 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 center.
• None defined
• 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.
• None defined

Surface Street Management for VDOT Staunton District ITS Architecture
• 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 center.

Transit Services for VDOT Staunton 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 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 VDOT Staunton 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.

Weather for VDOT Staunton District ITS Architecture
• None defined