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Virginia SWAN (Statewide Alert Network)

Status:

Existing

Definition:

The Virginia SWAN element is the Virginia Statewide Alert Network.

Stakeholder:

Virginia DEM

Architecture Flow Diagrams
which include Virginia SWAN (Statewide Alert Network):

• Virginia SWAN (Statewide Alert Network) Virginia EOC

Architecture Flows
to/from the Virginia SWAN (Statewide Alert Network):

Virginia SWAN (Statewide Alert Network) Virginia EOC

• alerts and advisories

National ITS Architecture Subsystems
mapped to the Virginia SWAN (Statewide Alert Network):

• Alerting and Advisory System Terminator
• Emergency Management Center Subsystem

National ITS Architecture Services
associated with Virginia SWAN (Statewide Alert Network):

• PS01 - Emergency Call-Taking and Dispatch -- (Graphic)
• PS02 - Emergency Response -- (Graphic)
• PS03 - Emergency Vehicle Preemption -- (Graphic)
• PS10 - Wide-Area Alert -- (Graphic)
• PS11 - Early Warning System -- (Graphic)
• PS12 - Disaster Response and Recovery -- (Graphic)
• PS13 - Evacuation and Reentry Management -- (Graphic)
• PS14 - Disaster Traveler Information -- (Graphic)
• TI01 - Broadcast Traveler Information -- (Graphic)
• TI02 - Personalized Traveler Information -- (Graphic)
• TM08 - Traffic Incident Management System -- (Graphic)

National ITS Architecture Functional Requirements
associated with Virginia SWAN (Statewide Alert Network):

Emergency Early Warning System

1. The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to commercial vehicle administration centers and roadside check facilities 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.
2. The center shall monitor information from Alerting and Advisory Systems such as the Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs), the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS), etc. The information may include assessments (general incident and vulnerability awareness information), advisories (identification of threats or recommendations to increase preparedness levels), or alerts (information on imminent or in-progress emergencies).
3. The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to toll administration 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.
4. The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to transit 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.
5. The center shall provide the capability to correlate alerts and advisories, incident information, and security sensor and surveillance data.
6. 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.
7. The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to traveler information service providers 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.
8. The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to maintenance 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.
9. The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to other emergency 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.
10. The center shall process status information from each of the centers that have been sent the wide-area alert.
11. The center shall coordinate the broadcast of wide-area alerts and advisories with other emergency management centers.
12. The center shall receive incident information from other transportation management centers to support the early warning system.
13. The center shall present the alert and advisory information and the status of the actions taken in response to the alert by the other centers to the emergency system operator as received from other system inputs.
14. The center shall support the entry of alert and advisory information directly from the emergency system operator.