The following are the roles and responsibilities, by functional area or by project, for CTDOT.
| Functional Area or Project |
Roles and Responsibilities |
Status |
|
Archived Data Systems |
Collect and archive regional emergency and accident information from regional public safety agencies. |
Planned |
| Collect and archive multimodal data from multimodal transportation service providers. |
Planned |
|
Emergency Management |
Coordinate threat information, such as surveillance or sensor data, with local traffic, transit, maintenance and emergency management agencies as well as the Department of Homeland Security. |
Planned |
| Dispatch CTDOT CHAMP vehicles to incidents in the region. |
Planned |
|
Freeway Management |
Perform network surveillance for incident detection and verification on freeways, and send traffic/incident information and traffic images to regional fire/EMS/police agencies, the Connecticut State Police, CTDOT CHAMP and the Hartford EOC. |
Planned |
| Dispatch CTDOT CHAMP vehicles to incidents in the region. |
Planned |
| Receive incident information, incident response status, and resource requests from EOCs/warning points and from the Hartford EOC. |
Planned |
| Coordinate maintenance resources for incident response with CTDOT District 1 maintenance system and city PWDs. |
Planned |
| Provide traffic information reports to other traffic management agencies, including the City of Hartford. |
Planned |
| Control and coordinate highway traffic, with ramp meters and high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes on freeways. |
Planned |
| Provide incident information to travelers using local information service providers (ISPs) and Web sites. |
Existing |
| Provide incident information to travelers using traffic information devices on freeways, such as dynamic message sign (DMS) devices and highway advisory radio (HAR) broadcasts. |
Existing |
|
Incident Management |
Perform network surveillance for incident detection and verification, and send traffic/incident information and traffic images to public safety agencies and EOCs. |
Existing |
| Operate and dispatch CTDOT CHAMP vehicles. |
Planned |
| Coordinate maintenance resources in response to incidents with the CSP and regional public safety agencies. |
Planned |
| Coordinate maintenance resource responses to incidents on state-owned roadways with the CSP and local public safety agencies. |
Planned |
| Coordinate incident response with local PWDs, including responses during scheduled events. |
Planned |
| Coordinate incident response for incidents on or adjacent to state-owned roadways with public safety agencies in surrounding counties and municipalities, including local EOCs, and the Hartford EOC. |
Planned |
| Provide maintenance resources in response to incidents on state-operated roadways. |
Planned |
| Provide incident information to travelers through local ISPs and Web sites. |
Existing |
| Provide incident information to travelers using traffic information devices on state-owned roadways, such as DMS devices and HAR broadcasts. |
Existing |
| Provide incident information to other traffic management and public safety agencies. |
Planned |
|
Maintenance and Construction |
Manage work zones for all CTDOT maintenance and construction activities, and monitor work zone safety with CTDOT field devices and vehicles. |
Planned |
| Maintenance vehicles provide automated maintenance status information to the CTDOT TMC Newington and CTDOT Maintenance District 1 |
Planned |
| Distribute this environmental data to private weather providers; regional TMCs; regional emergency management agencies; regional transit agencies; and city maintenance systems. |
Planned |
| Coordinate with city maintenance and construction systems, as well as other CTDOT maintenance and construction systems. |
Planned |
| Receive automatic vehicle location (AVL) information from CTDOT maintenance vehicles. |
Planned |
| Receive a request for maintenance resources for incident response from the CTDOT TMC Newington. |
Planned |
| Receive a request for maintenance resources for incident response from fire/EMS agencies, local police/fire/EMS agencies, the CSP, and 911 emergency call centers. |
Planned |
| Coordinate maintenance resources for incidents with the CSP and other CTDOT maintenance and construction operations. |
Planned |
| Coordinate maintenance or construction requests from the CTDOT TMC Newington. |
Planned |
| Provide maintenance and construction information to the CTDOT TMC Newington; regional maintenance and construction operations; and the traveling public using portable DMS devices. |
Planned |
| Collect environmental information from its own field equipment, and from public and private weather service providers. |
Planned |
|
Parking Management |
Operate, monitor and manage parking facilities. Collect current parking status information and share with local TMC and information service providers. |
Planned |
|
Surface Street Management |
Provide transit signal priority with roadside devices for CTtransit, MTD, and other transportation companies' transit vehicles |
Planned |
| Provide interconnection between railroad equipment and traffic signal systems to update signal timing when highway-rail intersections (HRI) are blocked by trains. |
Existing |
| Operate traffic signal systems. |
Existing |
| Coordinate traffic information and traffic control with City of Hartford and other municipalities |
Planned |
| Coordinate emergency traffic signal preemption with the City of Hartford Fire and Municipal Fire Departments. |
Existing |
|
Traveler Information |
Provide traffic, maintenance, and construction information to the traveling public using roadside equipment, such as DMS devices and HAR broadcasts, and traveler information systems. |
Existing |
| Collect traffic and incident information, and provide it to the media and private travelers. |
Existing |
