VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies
Status:
Existing
Definition:
The residencies that are responsible for monitoring and managing roadway infrastructure and construction and maintenance activities. Residencies also participate in incident response by deploying maintenance and construction resources to an incident scene, in coordination with other centers. Maintenance activities within the district occur at Area Headquarters, while Construction activities occur within the Residencies. Maintenance divisions also have the ability to input data in VA Traffic.
Stakeholder:
Systems Interconnected
with the VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies
- City of Charlottesville TMC
- NWR Local Public Safety Centers
- Shenandoah National Park Service Center
- VDOT Asset Management System
- VDOT Culpeper District EOC
- VDOT Customer Call Center
- VDOT ESS Weather Platform
- VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Vehicles
- VDOT NWRO TOC/ATMS
- VDOT Richmond District Maintenance and Construction Residencies
- VDOT SWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies
- VDOT VaTraffic
- VSP Division Office
Architecture Flow Diagrams
which include VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies:
- VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies City of Charlottesville TMC
- VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies NWR Local Public Safety Centers
- VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies Shenandoah National Park Service Center
- VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies VDOT Asset Management System
- VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies VDOT Culpeper District EOC
- VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies VDOT Customer Call Center
- VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies VDOT ESS Weather Platform
- VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Vehicles
- VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies VDOT NWRO TOC/ATMS
- VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies VDOT Richmond District Maintenance and Construction Residencies
- VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies VDOT SWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies
- VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies VDOT VaTraffic
- VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies VSP Division Office
Architecture Flows
to/from the VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies:
VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies City of Charlottesville TMCNational ITS Architecture Subsystems
mapped to the VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies:
- Asset Management System Terminator
- Emergency Management Center Subsystem
- Maint and Constr Management Center Subsystem
National ITS Architecture Services
associated with VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies:
- MC01 - Maintenance and Construction Vehicle and Equipment Tracking - VDOT NWR -- (Graphic)
- MC02 - Maintenance and Construction Vehicle Maintenance - VDOT NWR -- (Graphic)
- MC04 - Winter Maintenance - VDOT NWR -- (Graphic)
- MC05 - Roadway Maintenance and Construction - NWR -- (Graphic)
- MC06 - Work Zone Management - NWR -- (Graphic)
- PS08 - Roadway Service Patrols - NWR -- (Graphic)
National ITS Architecture Functional Requirements
associated with VDOT NWR Maintenance and Construction Residencies:
MCM Vehicle Maintenance Management
- The center shall exchange information with equipment repair facilities including status and history of repairs concerning maintenance and construction vehicles. This information includes vehicle status and diagnostic information, vehicle utilization, and coordination of when vehicles will be available for preventative and corrective maintenance.
- The center shall collect and analyze vehicle diagnostics information from maintenance and construction vehicles. The information includes engine temperature, mileage, tire wear, brake wear, belt wear, and any warnings or alarms concerning the operational condition of the vehicle and ancillary equipment.
- The center shall schedule preventive and corrective vehicle maintenance with the equipment repair facility based on fleet health reports, maintenance records, vehicle utilization and vehicle availability schedules.
- The center shall monitor the locations of all maintenance and construction vehicles and other equipment under its jurisdiction.
- The center shall present location data to center personnel for the fleet of maintenance and construction vehicles and other equipment.
- The center shall disseminate work zone information to other agencies and centers including traffic, transit, emergency management centers, other maintenance centers, traveler information centers, and the media.
- The center shall control the collection of work zone status information including video images from cameras located in or near the work zone.
- The center shall generate new work zone activity schedules for use by maintenance and construction vehicles, maintenance and construction operators, and for information coordination purposes.
- The center shall exchange information with administrative systems to support the planning and scheduling of maintenance activities. This information includes: equipment and consumables resupply purchase request status, personnel qualifications including training and special certifications, environmental regulations and rules that may impact maintenance activities, and requests and project requirements from contract administration.
- The center shall provide emergency management and traffic management centers with information about scheduled maintenance and construction work activities including anticipated closures and impact to the roadway, alternate routes, anticipated delays, closure times, and durations.
- The center shall maintain an interface with asset management systems to track the inventory, restrictions, repair needs and status updates of transportation assets (pavement, bridges, signs, etc.) including location, installation and materials information, vendor/contractor, current maintenance status, standard height, width, and weight restrictions.
- The center shall collect current and forecast traffic and weather information from traffic management centers and weather service providers (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services).
- The center shall provide the center personnel with tailored external information, including weather or road condition observations, forecasted weather information or road conditions, current usage of treatments and materials, available resources, equipment and vehicle availability, road network information, and source reliability information.
- The center shall provide dispatch information to maintenance and construction vehicles based on the outputs of the decision support system, including recommended roadway treatment actions.
- The center shall provide dispatch instructions for vehicle operators based on input parameters from center personnel, specifically for winter conditions. This could include a treatment route, treatment application rates, start and end times, and other treatment instructions.
- The center shall assess the current status of all winter maintenance activities, including actual work activities performed, current locations and operational conditions of vehicles, materials and equipment inventories, field equipment status, environmental information, etc.
- The center shall respond to requests from emergency management and traffic management centers for hazard removal, field equipment repair, and other winter roadway maintenance.
- The center shall determine the need for roadway treatment based on current and forecasted weather information, current usage of treatments and materials, available resources, requests for action from other agencies, and recommendations from the Maintenance Decision Support system, specifically under winter conditions. This supports winter maintenance such as plowing, treating, anti-icing, etc.
- The center shall dispatch and route winter maintenance vehicle drivers and support them with route-specific environmental, incident, advisory, threat, alert, and traffic congestion information.
- The center shall provide status information about scheduled maintenance and construction activities including anticipated closures and impact to the roadway, alternate routes, anticipated delays, closure times, and durations. The information is provided to other management centers such as traffic, emergency, transit, traveler information providers, other maintenance centers, multimodal transportation providers, rail operations, and the media.
- The center shall provide work zone activities affecting the road network including the nature of the maintenance or construction activity, location, impact to the roadway, expected time(s) and duration of impact, anticipated delays, alternate routes, and suggested speed limits. This information may be augmented with images that provide a visual indication of current work zone status and traffic impacts.
- The maintenance center shall exchange alert information and status with emergency management centers. The information includes notification of a major emergency such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, or child abduction. The information may include the alert originator, the nature of the emergency, the geographic area affected by the emergency, the effective time period, etc.
- The maintenance center shall respond to requests from emergency management to provide maintenance and construction resources to implement response plans, assist in clean up, verify an incident, etc. This may also involve coordination with traffic management centers and other maintenance centers.
- The maintenance center shall coordinate planning for incidents with emergency management centers - including pre-planning activities for disaster response, evacuation, and recovery operations.
- The maintenance center shall exchange incident and threat information with emergency management centers as well as traffic management centers; including notification of existence of incident and expected severity, location, time and nature of incident.