VDOT East River Mountain Tunnel
Status:
Existing
Definition:
The East River Mountain Tunnel is a 5,412-foot (1,649 m) vehicular tunnel that carries Interstate 77/US 52 through/under East River Mountain between the communities of Rocky Gap, Virginia and Bluefield, West Virginia.
Stakeholder:
Systems Interconnected
with the VDOT East River Mountain Tunnel
Architecture Flow Diagrams
which include VDOT East River Mountain Tunnel:
- VDOT East River Mountain Tunnel VDOT Big Walker Mountain Tunnel
- VDOT East River Mountain Tunnel VDOT East River Mountain Tunnel Field Equipment
- VDOT East River Mountain Tunnel VDOT SWRO TOC/ATMS
Architecture Flows
to/from the VDOT East River Mountain Tunnel:
VDOT East River Mountain Tunnel VDOT Big Walker Mountain TunnelNational ITS Architecture Subsystems
mapped to the VDOT East River Mountain Tunnel:
- Archived Data User System Terminator
- Emergency Management Center Subsystem
- Traffic Management Center Subsystem
National ITS Architecture Services
associated with VDOT East River Mountain Tunnel:
National ITS Architecture Functional Requirements
associated with VDOT East River Mountain Tunnel:
Emergency Secure Area Surveillance
- The center shall remotely control security surveillance devices in secure areas including facilities (e.g. transit yards) and transportation infrastructure (e.g. bridges, tunnels, interchanges, roadway infrastructure, and transit railways or guideways).
- The center shall exchange surveillance data with other emergency centers.
- The center shall remotely monitor video images and audio surveillance data collected in secure areas including facilities (e.g. transit yards) and transportation infrastructure (e.g. bridges, tunnels, interchanges, roadway infrastructure, and transit railways or guideways). The data may be raw or pre-processed in the field.
- The center shall provide the capability to correlate alerts and advisories, incident information, and security sensor and surveillance data.
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to traffic management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
- The center shall coordinate the broadcast of wide-area alerts and advisories with other emergency management centers.
- The center shall collect and store traffic flow and image data from the field equipment to detect and verify incidents.
- The center shall provide video and traffic sensor control commands to the field equipment to detect and verify incidents.
- The center shall provide road network conditions and traffic images to emergency management centers to support the detection, verification, and classification of incidents.
- The center shall support requests from emergency management centers and border inspection systems to remotely control sensor and surveillance equipment located in the field.
- The center shall allocate the appropriate emergency services, resources, and vehicle (s) to respond to incidents, and shall provide the capability to override the current allocation to suit the special needs of a current incident.
- The center shall receive event scheduling information from Event Promoters.
- The center shall support remote control of field equipment normally under control of the traffic management center including traffic signals, dynamic message signs, gates, and barriers.
- The center shall provide the capability to remotely control and monitor CCTV systems normally operated by a traffic management center.
- The center shall manage coordinated inter-agency responses to and recovery from large-scale emergencies. Such agencies include traffic management, transit, maintenance and construction management, rail operations, and other emergency management agencies.
- The center shall coordinate information and controls with other traffic management centers.
- The center shall provide road network conditions and traffic images to emergency management centers, maintenance and construction centers, and traveler information service providers.
- The center shall support requests from emergency management centers to remotely control sensor and surveillance equipment located in the field, provide special routing for emergency vehicles, and to provide responding emergency vehicles with signal preemption.
- The center shall exchange security sensor data with other emergency centers.