The following are the roles and responsibilities, by functional area or by project, for City of Hartford Public Works.
| Functional Area or Project |
Roles and Responsibilities |
Status |
|
Incident Management |
Provide maintenance resources in response to incidents on municipally operated arterials. |
Planned |
| Provide incident information to travelers using traffic information devices, such as DMS devices, on municipally owned roadways, and through local ISPs and Web sites. |
Planned |
| Provide incident information to other traffic management and public safety agencies. |
Planned |
| Perform network surveillance for detection and verification of incidents, and send traffic/incident information and traffic images to local and public safety agencies and EOCs. |
Planned |
| Coordinate maintenance resource response to incidents in the municipality with local public safety agencies. |
Planned |
| Coordinate incident response for incidents on roadways with PWDs, public safety agencies, and EOCs in surrounding counties and municipalities, including scheduled event responses. |
Planned |
| Adjust signal-timing patterns in response to incidents. |
Planned |
|
Maintenance and Construction |
Perform maintenance of ITS field equipment owned by the city. |
Planned |
| Manage work zones for all maintenance and construction activities, and monitor work zone safety with field equipment and vehicles. |
Planned |
| Maintenance vehicles provide automated maintenance status information to roadway maintenance and construction operations, as well as equipment repair facilities. |
Planned |
| Distribute maintenance and construction work plan information and asset restrictions to regional traffic agencies, regional transit providers, regional emergency services, the media, private rail operations, and multimodal service providers. |
Planned |
| Receive road weather information from field equipment. |
Planned |
| Receive AVL information from PWD vehicles. |
Planned |
| Receive a request for maintenance resources for incident response from regional traffic management systems. |
Planned |
| Receive a request for maintenance resources for incident response from regional fire/EMS agencies, local police/fire/EMS agencies, the CSP, 911 emergency call centers, and regional EOCs. |
Planned |
| Coordinate maintenance resources for incidents with CTDOT District 1 maintenance and construction operations, and other city maintenance and construction departments. |
Planned |
| Coordinate maintenance or construction requests from regional TMCs. |
Planned |
| Coordinate maintenance and construction activities with other city maintenance operations and CTDOT District 1 maintenance operations. |
Planned |
| Provide maintenance and construction information to regional traffic operations, and to the traveling public using portable DMS devices. |
Planned |
|
Surface Street Management |
Operate traffic signal systems on municipal-owned arterials. |
Existing |
| Provide transit signal priority with roadside devices for CTtransit, MTD, and other public transportation companies' transit vehicles. |
Planned |
| Coordinate traffic information and traffic control with CTDOT and other municipalities |
Planned |
| Coordinate emergency traffic signal preemption with the City of Hartford Fire Alarms and Signals Division. |
Existing |
| Provide interconnection between railroad equipment and traffic signal systems to update signal timing when highway-rail intersections (HRI) are blocked by trains. |
Existing |
