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Emergency Response Management
- 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 support remote control of field equipment normally under control of the traffic management center including traffic signals, dynamic message signs, gates, and barriers.
- The center shall provide the capability to remotely control and monitor CCTV systems normally operated by a traffic management center.
- The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to provide inputs to the management of incidents, disasters and evacuations.
On-board EV Incident Management Communication
- The emergency vehicle shall receive dispatch instructions sufficient to enable emergency personnel in the field to implement an effective incident response. It includes local traffic, road, and weather conditions, hazardous material information, and the current status of resources that have been allocated to an incident.
- The emergency vehicle shall provide an interface to the center for emergency personnel to transmit information about the incident site such as the extent of injuries, identification of vehicles and people involved, hazardous material, etc.
- The emergency vehicle shall provide an interface to the center for emergency personnel to transmit information about the current incident response status such as the identification of the resources on site, site management strategies in effect, and current clearance status.
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.
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