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NRO Local Public Safety Centers

Status:

Existing

Definition:

These centers are responsible for providing public safety in the form of police, fire and 911 call taking for the various counties in the state of Virginia. Examples are Arlington County Police and Fire, Arlington County Sheriff's Office, Arlington County ECC, City of Fredericksburg Public Safety Agencies, Loudoun County Public Safety Agencies, Spotsylvania County Public Safety Agencies, Stafford County Public Safety Agencies, Caroline County Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Management, Westmoreland County Sheriff, Herndon Police Department, Fairfax County Police and Fire, Leesburg Police Department, Loudoun County Fire and Rescue, Manassas Police Department, Prince William County Police and Fire, Fairfax City Police and Fire, Falls Church Police and Fire, City of Alexandria Police and Fire, Loudoun Sheriff, and the Vienna Police Department.

Stakeholder:

NRO Local Public Safety Agencies

Architecture Flow Diagrams
which include NRO Local Public Safety Centers:

• NRO Local Public Safety Centers Dulles Greenway
• NRO Local Public Safety Centers Fairfax County Public Safety Communications Center - MPSTOC
• NRO Local Public Safety Centers Federal Installations and Law Enforcement
• NRO Local Public Safety Centers Fredericksburg Regional Transit System
• NRO Local Public Safety Centers Maryland Woodrow Wilson Bridge Operations Center
• NRO Local Public Safety Centers Media Outlets
• NRO Local Public Safety Centers National Weather Service
• NRO Local Public Safety Centers NRO Local Public Safety Mobile Centers
• NRO Local Public Safety Centers NRO Local Public Safety Vehicles
• NRO Local Public Safety Centers NRO Local TOCs
• NRO Local Public Safety Centers NRO Local Transit Centers
• NRO Local Public Safety Centers Shelter Centers
• NRO Local Public Safety Centers VDOT MPSTOC SSP Vehicles
• NRO Local Public Safety Centers VDOT NRO MPSTOC - Signal Center
• NRO Local Public Safety Centers VDOT NRO MPSTOC - TOC/ATMS
• NRO Local Public Safety Centers VSP Center - MPSTOC
• NRO Local Public Safety Centers VSP Mobile Unified Command Center

Architecture Flows
to/from the NRO Local Public Safety Centers:

NRO Local Public Safety Centers Dulles Greenway

• incident response coordination


• toll service change request

NRO Local Public Safety Centers Fairfax County Public Safety Communications Center - MPSTOC

• alert notification coordination


• emergency plan coordination


• evacuation coordination


• incident command information coordination


• incident report


• incident response coordination


• resource coordination


• transportation system status

NRO Local Public Safety Centers Federal Installations and Law Enforcement

• evacuation coordination


• incident response coordination

NRO Local Public Safety Centers Fredericksburg Regional Transit System

• alert notification


• emergency plan coordination


• emergency transit service request


• evacuation information


• incident information


• incident response status


• threat information


• transportation system status

NRO Local Public Safety Centers Maryland Woodrow Wilson Bridge Operations Center

• alert notification


• incident information


• incident response coordination


• transportation system status

NRO Local Public Safety Centers Media Outlets

• incident information for media

NRO Local Public Safety Centers NRO Local Public Safety Mobile Centers

• alert notification coordination


• emergency plan coordination


• evacuation coordination


• incident command information coordination


• incident report


• incident response coordination


• resource coordination


• threat information coordination


• transportation system status

NRO Local Public Safety Centers NRO Local Public Safety Vehicles

• emergency dispatch requests

NRO Local Public Safety Centers NRO Local TOCs

• red light running system data

NRO Local Public Safety Centers NRO Local Transit Centers

• alert notification


• emergency plan coordination


• emergency transit service request


• evacuation information


• incident information for public


• incident response status


• threat information


• transportation system status

NRO Local Public Safety Centers Shelter Centers

• evacuation information

NRO Local Public Safety Centers VDOT MPSTOC SSP Vehicles

• emergency dispatch requests


• incident response coordination


• resource coordination

NRO Local Public Safety Centers VDOT NRO MPSTOC - Signal Center

• emergency traffic control request


• incident information


• incident response coordination


• red light running system data


• remote surveillance control


• resource request

NRO Local Public Safety Centers VDOT NRO MPSTOC - TOC/ATMS

• emergency plan coordination


• evacuation coordination


• incident information for public


• incident response coordination


• resource request

NRO Local Public Safety Centers VSP Center - MPSTOC

• alert notification coordination


• emergency plan coordination


• evacuation coordination


• incident command information coordination


• incident report


• incident response coordination


• resource coordination


• threat information coordination


• transportation system status

NRO Local Public Safety Centers VSP Mobile Unified Command Center

• alert notification coordination


• emergency plan coordination


• evacuation coordination


• incident command information coordination


• incident report


• incident response coordination


• resource coordination


• threat information coordination


• transportation system status

Dulles GreenwayNRO Local Public Safety Centers

• incident information


• incident response coordination


• toll service change response

Fairfax County Public Safety Communications Center - MPSTOCNRO Local Public Safety Centers

• emergency plan coordination


• evacuation coordination


• incident report


• incident response coordination


• resource coordination

Federal Installations and Law EnforcementNRO Local Public Safety Centers

• evacuation coordination


• incident response coordination

Fredericksburg Regional Transit SystemNRO Local Public Safety Centers

• transit emergency data

Maryland Woodrow Wilson Bridge Operations CenterNRO Local Public Safety Centers

• alert status


• emergency traffic control information


• incident information


• road network conditions

National Weather ServiceNRO Local Public Safety Centers

• weather information

NRO Local Public Safety Mobile CentersNRO Local Public Safety Centers

• alert notification coordination


• emergency plan coordination


• evacuation coordination


• incident command information coordination


• incident report


• incident response coordination


• resource coordination


• threat information coordination


• transportation system status

NRO Local Public Safety VehiclesNRO Local Public Safety Centers

• emergency dispatch response


• emergency vehicle tracking data


• incident scene status

NRO Local Transit CentersNRO Local Public Safety Centers

• alert status


• emergency plan coordination


• emergency transit schedule information


• emergency transit service response


• transit emergency data


• transit system status assessment

Shelter CentersNRO Local Public Safety Centers

• shelter information

VDOT MPSTOC SSP VehiclesNRO Local Public Safety Centers

• emergency dispatch response


• incident response coordination


• resource coordination

VDOT NRO MPSTOC - Signal CenterNRO Local Public Safety Centers

• emergency traffic control information


• incident information


• resource deployment status


• road network conditions

VDOT NRO MPSTOC - TOC/ATMSNRO Local Public Safety Centers

• evacuation coordination


• incident information


• incident response coordination


• resource deployment status


• road network conditions

VSP Center - MPSTOCNRO Local Public Safety Centers

• alert notification coordination


• emergency plan coordination


• evacuation coordination


• incident command information coordination


• incident report


• incident response coordination


• resource coordination


• threat information coordination


• transportation system status

VSP Mobile Unified Command CenterNRO Local Public Safety Centers

• alert notification coordination


• emergency plan coordination


• evacuation coordination


• incident command information coordination


• incident report


• incident response coordination


• resource coordination


• threat information coordination


• transportation system status

National ITS Architecture Subsystems
mapped to the NRO Local Public Safety Centers:

• Emergency Management Center Subsystem

National ITS Architecture Services
associated with NRO Local Public Safety Centers:

• MC06 - Work Zone Management - VDOT NOVA District -- (Graphic)
• PS01 - Emergency Call-Taking and Dispatch - NRO-2 -- (Graphic)
• PS01 - Emergency Call-Taking and Dispatch - NRO -- (Graphic)
• PS03 - Emergency Vehicle Preemption - NRO -- (Graphic)
• PS09 - Region-wide Transportation Infrastructure Protection -- (Graphic)
• PT05 - Transit Security - NRO -- (Graphic)

National ITS Architecture Functional Requirements
associated with NRO Local Public Safety Centers:

Emergency Routing

1. The center shall collect current traffic and road condition information for emergency vehicle route calculation.
2. The center shall provide the capability to request special traffic control measures, such as signal preemption, from the traffic management center to facilitate emergency vehicle progress along the suggested route.
3. The center shall receive information on the location and status of traffic control equipment and work zones along potential emergency routes.

Emergency Call-Taking

1. The emergency call-taking center shall update the incident information log once the emergency system operator has verified the incident.
2. The emergency call-taking center shall receive emergency call information from 911 services and present the possible incident information to the emergency system operator.
3. The emergency call-taking center shall support the interface to the Emergency Telecommunications System (e.g. 911 or 7-digit call routing) to receive emergency notification information and provide it to the emergency system operator.
4. The emergency call-taking center shall receive emergency notification information from public transit systems and present the possible incident information to the emergency system operator.
5. The emergency call-taking center shall receive emergency notification information from other public safety agencies and present the possible incident information to the emergency system operator.
6. The emergency call-taking center shall forward the verified emergency information to the responding agency based on the location and nature of the emergency.

Emergency Incident Command

1. The center shall assess the status of responding emergency vehicles as part of an incident command.
2. The center shall provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration for first responders to support local management of an incident.
3. The center shall provide incident command communications with public safety, emergency management, transportation, and other allied response agency centers.
4. The center shall share incident command information with other public safety agencies including resource deployment status, hazardous material information, rail incident information, evacuation advice as well as traffic, road, and weather conditions.

Emergency Dispatch

1. The center shall coordinate response to incidents with other Emergency Management centers to ensure appropriate resources are dispatched and utilized.
2. The center shall receive traffic images to support dispatch of emergency vehicles.
3. The center shall relay location and incident details to the responding vehicles.
4. The center shall dispatch emergency vehicles to respond to verified emergencies under center personnel control.
5. The center shall track the location and status of emergency vehicles responding to an emergency based on information from the emergency vehicle.
6. The center shall store the current status of all emergency vehicles available for dispatch and those that have been dispatched.

Emergency Call-Taking

1. The center shall provide the capability for digitized map data to act as the background to the emergency information presented to the emergency system operator.

Emergency Dispatch

1. The center shall provide the capability for digitized map data to act as the background to the information presented to the emergency system operator.