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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Definition:

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is responsible for running the National Weather Service (NWS) providing weather-related advisories, alerts, warnings, nowcasts and forecasts.

Inventory Elements:

• National Weather Service

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Systems for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Collect and store information supporting the operations of traveler information service providers for use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.

Electronic Toll Collection for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.

Emergency Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• 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.
• Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.

Freeway Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• None defined

Incident Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• None defined

Maintenance and Construction for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.

Traveler Information for Virginia Statewide Architecture
• Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
• Disseminate traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, event, and weather information to travelers.
• Provide personalized traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, multimodal, event, and weather information to traveler, upon request.
• Distribute traveler information and wide-area alerts to traveler telephone information systems such as 511, based on voice-based traveler requests.