District of Columbia ITS Architecture

Interfaces:

ITS Data Repository

Emergency Call-Taking

Emergency Dispatch

Emergency Response Management

Mayday Support

Emergency Data Collection

• The center shall collect emergency service data, emergency vehicle management data, emergency vehicle data, sensor and surveillance data, threat data, and incident data.
• The center shall assign quality control metrics and meta-data to be stored along with the data. Meta-data may include attributes that describe the source and quality of the data and the conditions surrounding the collection of the data.
• The center shall receive and respond to requests from ITS Archives for either a catalog of the emergency management data or for the data itself.
• The center shall be able to produce sample products of the data available.

Emergency Environmental Monitoring

Center Secure Area Surveillance

Incident Command

Emergency Evacuation Support

Emergency Early Warning System

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The center shall process status information from each of the centers that have been sent the wide-area alert.
• The center shall coordinate the broadcast of wide-area alerts and advisories with other emergency management centers.
• The center shall receive incident information from other transportation management centers to support the early warning system.
• 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.
• The center shall support the entry of alert and advisory information directly from the emergency system operator.
• 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).
• 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 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.

Center Secure Area Sensor Management

Center Secure Area Alarm Support

Emergency Commercial Vehicle Response