Roles and Responsibility Area: Emergency Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture

Emergency Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture

Border 511 States

Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
Support coordinated response to incidents.
Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
Share incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.

City of Bristol TN

Plan strategically for emergency response.
Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
Formulate an incident response that takes into account the incident potential, incident impacts, and/or resources required for incident management including proposing and facilitating the dispatch of emergency response and service vehicles.
Provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among public safety agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.
Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.

Federal Law Enforcement Agencies

Operate and maintain security sensors in areas such as transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Operate and maintain security surveillance devices and analysis of that data to detect potential threats such as at transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
Route public safety vehicles to facilitate the quickest/safest arrival either based on real-time traffic information and road conditions or request routes from the traffic management center.
Provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among public safety agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
Disseminate threat information to other agencies.

I-95 Corridor Coalition

Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
Formulate an incident response that takes into account the incident potential, incident impacts, and/or resources required for incident management including proposing and facilitating the dispatch of emergency response and service vehicles.
Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Plan strategically for emergency response.
Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among public safety agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.
Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.

Maryland State Highway Administration (MDSHA)

Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
Operate and maintain security sensors in areas such as transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.
Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
Operate and maintain security surveillance devices and analysis of that data to detect potential threats such as at transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
Formulate an incident response that takes into account the incident potential, incident impacts, and/or resources required for incident management including proposing and facilitating the dispatch of emergency response and service vehicles.
Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among public safety agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.

Metropolitan Area Transportation Operations Coordination (MATOC)

Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.

NCDOT

Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
Provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among public safety agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.
Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
Formulate an incident response that takes into account the incident potential, incident impacts, and/or resources required for incident management including proposing and facilitating the dispatch of emergency response and service vehicles.
Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Route public safety vehicles to facilitate the quickest/safest arrival either based on real-time traffic information and road conditions or request routes from the traffic management center.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.

Other County/State Governments

Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
Operate and maintain security surveillance devices and analysis of that data to detect potential threats such as at transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
Operate and maintain security sensors in areas such as transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among public safety agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
Plan strategically for emergency response.

Sullivan County TN

Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
Operate and maintain security sensors in areas such as transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
Operate and maintain security surveillance devices and analysis of that data to detect potential threats such as at transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
Provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among public safety agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
Track location and status of emergency vehicles.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation

Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
Provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among public safety agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Plan strategically for emergency response.

Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP)

Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
Operate and maintain security sensors in areas such as transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among public safety agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
Operate and maintain security surveillance devices and analysis of that data to detect potential threats such as at transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.

Toll Collection Agencies

Roadside collection of tolls from vehicle toll tags and violation identification.

VDOT Central Office

Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
Share incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.
Operate safeguard systems remotely such as blast shields and tunnel exhaust systems that are used to mitigate the impact of incidents on transportation infrastructure.
Support coordinated response to incidents.
Route public safety vehicles to facilitate the quickest/safest arrival either based on real-time traffic information and road conditions or request routes from the traffic management center.
Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
Provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among public safety agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
Operate and maintain security surveillance devices and analysis of that data to detect potential threats such as at transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Manage and support routine maintenance on the roadway or right-of-way including landscape maintenance, hazard removal (roadway debris, dead animals), routine maintenance activities (roadway cleaning, grass cutting), and repair and maintenance of both ITS and non-ITS equipment.
Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
Operate and maintain security sensors in areas such as transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.
Formulate an incident response that takes into account the incident potential, incident impacts, and/or resources required for incident management including proposing and facilitating the dispatch of emergency response and service vehicles.
Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Track location and status of emergency vehicles.

VDOT Districts

Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Manage and support routine maintenance on the roadway or right-of-way including landscape maintenance, hazard removal (roadway debris, dead animals), routine maintenance activities (roadway cleaning, grass cutting), and repair and maintenance of both ITS and non-ITS equipment.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
Operate and maintain security sensors in areas such as transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
Support coordinated response to incidents.
Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.
Formulate an incident response that takes into account the incident potential, incident impacts, and/or resources required for incident management including proposing and facilitating the dispatch of emergency response and service vehicles.
Operate and maintain security surveillance devices and analysis of that data to detect potential threats such as at transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
Provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among public safety agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
Share incident notifications, manage incident response resources and coordinate overall incident situation and response among allied response organizations.
Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.

Video Clearinghouses

Formulate an incident response that takes into account the incident potential, incident impacts, and/or resources required for incident management including proposing and facilitating the dispatch of emergency response and service vehicles.
Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.
Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, etc.
Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.

Virginia DEM

Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
Operate and maintain security sensors in areas such as transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
Formulate an incident response that takes into account the incident potential, incident impacts, and/or resources required for incident management including proposing and facilitating the dispatch of emergency response and service vehicles.
Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Operate and maintain security surveillance devices and analysis of that data to detect potential threats such as at transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
Route public safety vehicles to facilitate the quickest/safest arrival either based on real-time traffic information and road conditions or request routes from the traffic management center.
Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among public safety agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.

Virginia Public Safety and Emergency Management

Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
Operate and maintain security sensors in areas such as transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
Operate and maintain security surveillance devices and analysis of that data to detect potential threats such as at transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
Track location and status of emergency vehicles.

Virginia State Police

Request signal preemption via short range communication directly from the emergency vehicle to the traffic control equipment on the roadside.
Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.
Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
Formulate an incident response that takes into account the incident potential, incident impacts, and/or resources required for incident management including proposing and facilitating the dispatch of emergency response and service vehicles.
Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
Analyze security sensor data and correlate with surveillance data and alerts from other agencies to detect potential threats.
Collect current and forecast road and weather information that is used to more effectively manage incidents.
Operate and maintain security surveillance devices and analysis of that data to detect potential threats such as at transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
Plan strategically for emergency response.
Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
Operate and maintain security sensors in areas such as transit stops, transit stations, rest areas, park and ride lots, modal interchange facilities, on-board a transit vehicle, etc.
Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
Operate barrier systems remotely such as gates and other systems that manage entry to roadways, transportation facilities and infrastructure.
Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
Gather dispatch and routing information from an emergency vehicle using on-board equipment for vehicle tracking and communications with care facilities.
Provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among public safety agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
Disseminate threat information to other agencies.
Develop, coordinate with emergency management and other traffic management centers, and execute special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency.