ITS Element: Mobile Command and Communications Vehicle (Mobile One)

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Description: A mobile command center that dispatches emergency vehicles (Mobile One). When Mobile One is operated as an alternate CECOMS, then it uses the same interfaces that are identified in the CECOMS element. The interfaces that are identified reflect community use of this asset for a transportation-related incident.
Status: Existing
Stakeholder: Cuyahoga County Emergency Services
Mapping: Emergency Management
Other Emergency Management

Interfaces:

CECOMS - Emergency Communications
City of Cleveland Maintenance Dispatch
City of Cleveland Police, Fire, and EMS Dispatch
City of Cleveland Signal Control System
Cuyahoga Regional Information System (CRIS)
Hopkins International Airport and Burke Lakefront Airport
National Weather Service
ODOT District 12 Freeway Management Center
ODOT District 12 Office
Market Packages: ATMS08 - Traffic Incident Management System - City of Cleveland Maintenance Dispatch (EM to MCM)
ATMS08 - Traffic Incident Management System - Hopkins International and Burke Lakefront Airport (EM to TM)
ATMS08 - Traffic Incident Management System - ODOT District 12 (EM to TM)
ATMS08 - Traffic Incident Management System - City of Cleveland (EM to TM)
EM01 - Emergency Call-Taking and Dispatch - City of Cleveland
EM01 - Emergency Call-Taking and Dispatch - CECOMS
EM01 - Emergency Call-Taking and Dispatch - Cuyahoga Regional Information System (CRIS)
MC04 - Weather Information Processing and Distribution - ODOT District 12 (2 of 2)
Functional Requirements:

Emergency Response Management

  • 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 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 pub
  • The center shall collect information about the status of the recovery efforts for the infrastructure during disasters.
  • The center shall develop, coordinate with other agencies, and store emergency response plans.
  • 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 manage coordinated inter-agency responses to incidents at an international border.
  • The center shall provide information to the media concerning the status of an emergency response.
  • The center shall provide strategic emergency response capabilities provided by an Emergency Operations Center for large-scale incidents and disasters.
  • 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 for digitized map data to act as the background to the information presented to the emergency system operator.
  • The center shall provide the capability to communicate information about emergency situations to local population through the Emergency Telecommunications System.
  • The center shall provide the capability to identify neighborhoods and businesses that should be informed of an emergency situation based on information collected about incidents including their severity, impacted locations, and recovery schedule.
  • 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 provide the capability to remotely control and monitor CCTV systems normally operated by a traffic management center.
  • 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 the overall status of infrastructure recovery efforts to traveler information providers and media.
  • The center shall receive event scheduling information from Event Promoters.
  • The center shall retrieve information from public health systems to increase preparedness for, and implement a response to biological, chemical, radiation, and other public health emergencies.
  • 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 track the availability of resources and coordinate resource sharing with allied agency centers including traffic, maintenance, or other emergency centers.

Incident Command

  • The center shall assess the status of responding emergency vehicles as part of an incident command.
  • The center shall provide incident command communications with public safety, emergency management, transportation, and other allied response agency centers.
  • 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 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 track and maintain resource information and action plans pertaining to the incident command.

Last updated: 03-17-10