The following are the roles and responsibilities, by functional area or by project, for Municipal Public Works Department.
| 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 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, including scheduled event responses. |
Planned |
| Adjust signal-timing patterns in response to incidents. |
Planned |
|
Maintenance and Construction |
Manage work zones for all local maintenance and construction activities, and monitor work zone safety with public works field devices and vehicles. |
Planned |
| Coordinate with other local maintenance and construction systems, as well as CTDOT maintenance and construction systems. |
Planned |
| Receive automatic vehicle location (AVL) information from maintenance vehicles. |
Planned |
| Receive a request for maintenance resources for incident response from local police/fire/EMS agencies, the CSP, and 911 emergency call centers. |
Planned |
| Coordinate maintenance resources for incidents with the local public safety providers, CSP, and CTDOT maintenance and construction operations. |
Planned |
| Provide maintenance and construction information to the traveling public using portable DMS devices. |
Planned |
|
Surface Street Management |
Provide transit signal priority with roadside devices for CTtransit, MTD, and other public 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 on municipal-owned arterials. |
Existing |
| Coordinate traffic information and traffic control with CTDOT, the City of Hartford, and other municipalities |
Planned |
| Coordinate emergency traffic signal preemption with municipal fire and PWD vehicles. |
Existing |
