Stakeholder: VDOT NRO

VDOT NRO

Definition:

The VDOT NRO operates and manages the VDOT roadways and facilities in the Northern Regional Operations area defined by the VDOT NOVA District and a part of the VDOT Fredericksburg District. The VDOT NRO operates the Traffic Operations Center and the Traffic Signal System, operates snow plows and the safety service patrol.

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Inventory Elements:

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Management

Provide traffic archive data to VDOT ADMS.

Emergency Management

Coordinates evacuation plans among allied agencies and manages evacuation and reentry of population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses as a risk to security
Interface with other transportation management agencies to support coordinated emergency response involving multiple agencies
Supports coordination of evacuation plans among federal state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation

Freeway and Corridor Management

Propose and facilitate the appropriate dissemination of incident related information to travelers and potential travelers
Utilize current technology to optimize the flow of traffic on access controlled highways
Manage and monitor traffic on freeway mainlines and on-off ramps using field equipment including cameras, inductive loops, and non-intrusive equipment
Monitor weather conditions along freeways
Provide the communications and roadside equipment to support ramp control, lane controls, and interchange control for freeways
Provide the roadside elements of traffic information dissemination including DMS and HAR
Share traffic information with other traffic agencies like DDOT ITMS or CHART
Manage HOV lanes by coordinating freeway ramp gates and connector signals with HOV lane usage signs
Collect and process automated traffic data from traffic speed monitoring sites

Incident Management

Share information on appropriate dissemination devices such as DMS and HAR
Provide the Safety Service Patrol to respond to incidents and disabled vehicles on interstates.
Provide the capability to disseminate the information relating to the response status to other agencies
Provide resources when requested by emergency/incident management agencies
Propose and facilitate appropriate traffic management strategy to reduce traffic flow impact
Track incidents and responses

Maintenance and Construction

Manages winter road maintenance, tracking and controlling snow plow operations, roadway treatment (e.g salt spraying and other material applications) based on weather information
Disseminate maintenance and construction activity coordination to centers that can utilize it as part of its operations, or to the ISPs who can provide the information to the travelers
Repair and maintain of ITS equpiment on the roadway (signs, traffic controllers, traffic detectors, DMS, signals, CCTV etc)
Provide numerous services for scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and construction of roadway system or right of way. Maintenance services would include landscape maintenance, hazard removal (roadway debris, dead animals), and routine maintenance activitiies (roadway cleaning, grass-cutting)
Peforms vehicle maintenance scheduling and manages both routine and corrective maintenance activities on vehicles and other MCO equipment
Maintain AVL systems for maintenance vehilces
Communicates and tracks maintenance and construction vehicles and other equipment to ascertain progess of their activities
Collect and archive maintenance and construction data for off-line planning, research and archiving
Collects current road and weather conditions using data collected from environmental sensors deployed on or about the roadway.

Parking Management

Determine and distribtue dynamic status of individual parking lots (full, open etc)
Support electronic payment of parking fees
Manage parking reservations, parking lot use and revenue collection for VDOT park and ride services

Snow Removal and Weather Related Operations

Track Maintenance Vehicle Fleet Location and resource usage. (including AVL implementation)
Perform Snow-removal operations on interstate and surface streets in the NOVA region.
Use weather information for operations decisions such as road closures, maintenance strategies, resource mobilization
Collect Weather information from various sources (subscription weather services, national weather service, FEMA etc)
Coordinate with NOVA Local Emergency Responders for incident clearance and snow removal activities
Disseminate weather information to travelers, and media through 511, HAR as well the internet

Surface Street Signal Management

Monitor maintenance, construction, and winter road conditions along key arterials
Manage regional traffic control efforts and assist in coordinating traffic across boundaries
Install, and maintains over 1400 traffic signals in the three counties - Fairfax, Prince William and Loudon. It also operates Fredericksburg Signal System.
Adjust signal timing in real-time from a centralized traffic signal control system.
Continuously monitor the real-time signal status, collect traffic flow information using CCTV and loop detectors
Use Surveillance technologies to detect and verify incidents
Coordinate with other regional agencies during emergencies and evacuation for emergency traffic control
Recive signal priority and preemption requests where available

Traveler Information Services

Provide customer services including customer complaints, incident information and maintenace and construction information
Install and maintain detection (CCTV, Radar) and dissemination devices (DMS, HAR)
Collect and diseeminate traffic conditions, advisories, incident information, maintenance and construction information, winter road conditions, air quality and weather information to other agencies including adjacent TOCs, other regional traffic managemnet agencies like CHART, DDOT ITMS/TOC, CAPTOP, and private ISPs