Las Cruces Regional ITS Architecture Update

Interfaces:

Emergency Response Management

• The center shall provide strategic emergency response capabilities provided by an Emergency Operations Center for large-scale incidents and disasters.
• The center shall manage coordinated inter-agency responses to and recovery from large-scale emergencies. Such agencies include traffic management, transit, maintenance and construction management, rail operations, and other emergency management agencies.
• The center shall provide the capability to implement response plans and track progress through the incident by exchanging incident information and response status with allied agencies.
• The center shall develop, coordinate with other agencies, and store emergency response plans.
• The center shall track the availability of resources and coordinate resource sharing with allied agency centers including traffic, maintenance, or other emergency centers.
• The center shall allocate the appropriate emergency services, resources, and vehicle (s) to respond to incidents, and shall provide the capability to override the current allocation to suit the special needs of a current incident.
• The center shall receive event scheduling information from Event Promoters.
• The center shall provide the capability to request transit resource availability from transit centers for use during disaster and evacuation operations.
• The center shall provide information to the media concerning the status of an emergency response.

Emergency Environmental Monitoring

Incident Command

• The center shall provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
• The center shall provide incident command communications with public safety, emergency management, transportation, and other allied response agency centers.
• The center shall track and maintain resource information and action plans pertaining to the incident command.
• The center shall share incident command information with other public safety agencies including resource deployment status, hazardous material information, rail incident information, evacuation advice as well as traffic, road, and weather conditions.
• The center shall assess the status of responding emergency vehicles as part of an incident command.

Emergency Evacuation Support

• The center shall manage inter-agency coordination of evacuation operations, from initial planning through the evacuation process and reentry.
• The center shall develop and exchange evacuation plans with allied agencies prior to the occurrence of a disaster.
• The center shall coordinate evacuation destinations and shelter needs with shelter providers (e.g., the American Red Cross) in the region.
• The center shall provide evacuation information to traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, rail operations, and other emergency management centers as needed.
• The center shall request traffic management agencies to implement special traffic control strategies and to control evacuation traffic, including traffic on local streets and arterials as well as the major evacuation routes.
• The center shall provide traveler information systems with evacuation guidance including basic information to assist potential evacuees in determining whether evacuation is necessary and when it is safe to return.
• The center shall monitor the progress or status of the evacuation once it begins and exchange tactical plans, prepared during the incident, with allied agencies.
• The center shall monitor the progress of the reentry process.

Emergency Early Warning System

• 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.
• 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.