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Emergency Call-Taking
- The center shall coordinate, correlate, and verify all emergency inputs, including those identified based on external calls and internal analysis of security sensor and surveillance data, and assign each a level of confidence.
- The center shall forward the verified emergency information to the responding agency based on the location and nature of the emergency.
- The center shall update the incident information log once the emergency system operator has verified the incident.
- The center shall provide the capability for digitized map data to act as the background to the emergency information presented to the emergency system operator.
- The center shall receive emergency call information from mayday service providers and present the possible incident information to the emergency system operator.
- The center shall receive emergency notification information from other public safety agencies and present the possible incident information to the emergency system operator.
Emergency Dispatch
- The center shall dispatch emergency vehicles to respond to verified emergencies under center personnel control.
- The center shall store the current status of all emergency vehicles available for dispatch and those that have been dispatched.
- The center shall relay location and incident details to the responding vehicles.
- The center shall track the location and status of emergency vehicles responding to an emergency based on information from the emergency vehicle.
- The center shall store and maintain the emergency service responses in an action log.
- The center shall provide the capability for digitized map data to act as the background to the information presented to the emergency system operator.
- The center shall receive traffic images to support dispatch of emergency vehicles.
- The center shall provide the capability to request remote control of traffic surveillance devices
- The center shall coordinate response to incidents with other Emergency Management centers to ensure appropriate resources are dispatched and utilized.
Emergency Response Management
- 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 assimilate the damage assessment of the transit, traffic, rail, maintenance, and other emergency center services and systems to create an overall transportation system status, and disseminate to each of these centers and the traveling public via traveler information providers.
- The center shall provide information to the media concerning the status of an emergency response.
- The center shall provide the capability for digitized map data to act as the background to the information presented to the emergency system operator.
- The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to provide inputs to the management of incidents, disasters and evacuations.
- The center shall provide the capability to communicate information about emergency situations to local population through the Emergency Telecommunications System.
Mayday Support
- The center shall collect mayday messages from vehicles and drivers.
- The center shall acknowledge the request for emergency assistance, whether originated by the driver, automatically by the vehicle's safety systems, or by a traveler via a personal handheld device.
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
- The center shall collect current and forecast road and weather information from weather service providers (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services).
- The center shall collect current road and weather information from roadway maintenance operations.
- The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information to support incident management.
- The center shall present the current and forecast road and weather information to the emergency system operator.
Emergency Routing
- The center shall collect current traffic and road condition information for emergency vehicle route calculation.
- The center shall receive information on the location and status of traffic control equipment and work zones along potential emergency routes.
- The center shall receive status information from care facilities to determine the appropriate facility and its location.
- The center shall receive asset restriction information to support the dispatching of appropriate emergency resources.
- The center shall calculate emergency vehicle routes, under center personnel control, based on the collected traffic and road conditions information..
- The center shall request and receive ingress and egress routes or other specialized emergency access routes from the traffic management center.
- Once the route is calculated the route shall be provided to the dispatch function.
- The center shall provide the capability for digitized map data to act as the background to the information presented to the emergency system operator.
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 develop and exchange evacuation plans with allied agencies prior to the occurrence of a disaster.
- 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.
- The center shall provide evacuation information to traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, and other emergency management centers as needed.
Emergency Early Warning System
- 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.
- 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.
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