Video Clearinghouses
Definition:
This stakeholder represents entities acting as an agent for video distribution in the region for various agencies including VDOT. VDOT policy allows up to three private contractors to serve as video clearinghouses.
Inventory Elements:
Roles and Responsibilities:
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Archived Data Systems for Virginia Statewide Architecture
- None defined
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
- Report identified incidents to operations personnel and other centers.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- 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.
- Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
- Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
- 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.
- Control traffic signal controllers remotely to implement traffic management strategies at signalized intersections based on traffic conditions, incidents, emergency vehicle preemptions, pedestrian crossings, 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.
- Distribute emergency information to the traveling public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.
- Disseminate traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR).
- Monitor external advisory and incident reporting systems, intermodal freight depots, and border crossings for incident information.
- Monitor traffic sensor and surveillance systems remotely to detect and verify incidents.
- Coordinate incident response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.
- 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.
- Collect traveler information from other centers, consolidate and refine the collected data, and make it available to travelers.
- Provide personalized traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, multimodal, event, and weather information to traveler, upon request.
- Disseminate traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, event, and weather information to travelers.
- 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.
Electronic Toll Collection for Virginia Statewide Architecture
Emergency Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture
Freeway Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture
Incident Management for Virginia Statewide Architecture
Maintenance and Construction for Virginia Statewide Architecture
Traveler Information for Virginia Statewide Architecture