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Emergency Early Warning System Equipment Package
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Description:
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Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters. Notification is provided to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public. Includes support for Child Abduction notices.
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Included in:
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City of Victoria EOC
City of Victoria Fire/Police/EMS Dispatch and PSAP
City of Victoria Traffic Operations Center
County EOC
County Public Safety Dispatch and PSAP
County/Municipal Public Health Office
DPS Communications
Municipal EOC
Municipal Public Safety Dispatch
Municipal Traffic Operations Center
Other County EOC
South Texas Nuclear Power Plant Operations
TxDOT Yoakum District Office -Traffic
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Functional Requirements:
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| 1 | 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). |
| 2 | The center shall provide the capability to correlate alerts and advisories, incident information, and security sensor and surveillance data. |
| 3 | 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. |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 | The center shall process status information from each of the centers that have been sent the wide-area alert. |
| 10 | The center shall coordinate the broadcast of wide-area alerts and advisories with other emergency management centers. |
| 11 | The center shall receive incident information from other transportation management centers to support the early warning system. |
| 12 | 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. |
| 13 | The center shall support the entry of alert and advisory information directly from the emergency system operator. |
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User Service Requirements (fully or partially addressed):
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| 4.0 | COMMERCIAL VEHICLE OPERATIONS |
| 4.5 | HAZARDOUS MATERIAL SECURITY AND INCIDENT RESPONSE |
| 4.5.0 | ITS shall include a Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) Security and Incident Response (HSIR) service. |
| 4.5.3 | HSIR shall include a Communications (COMM) function. |
| 4.5.3.1 | COMM shall provide the capability for distress signals to be sent to a focal point. |
| 4.5.4 | HSIR shall include a HAZMAT Security (HS) function. |
| 4.5.4.2 | HS shall provide a roadside security sensitive HAZMAT security (RHS) function. |
| 4.5.4.2.5 | RHS shall include the capability to notify traffic management agencies when unauthorized security sensitive HAZMAT activity has been detected and verified. |
| 4.5.4.3 | HS shall include a Driver Authentication function (DA) |
| 4.5.4.3.7 | DA shall include the capability to notify traffic management if an unauthorized driver attempts to operate the vehicle. |
| 5.0 | EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT |
| 5.1 | EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION AND PERSONAL SECURITY |
| 5.1.3 | ENPS shall include a Remote Security and Emergency Monitoring (RSEM) function to create an environment of safety in secure areas. |
| 5.1.3.4 | RSEM shall include a Monitor Alert Levels (MAL) function. |
| 5.1.3.4.3 | MAL shall increase system preparedness as the likelihood of an incident increases, including: |
| 5.1.4 | ENPS shall include a Wide Area Alert (WAA) function to notify the public in emergency situations using ITS driver information and traveler information capabilities. |
| 5.1.4.1 | WAA shall notify transportation operators and information providers when an emergency situation occurs that requires public notification. |
| 5.1.4.1.1 | The WAA notification shall identify the originator, the nature of the emergency, the geographic area affected by the emergency, the effective time period, and information and instructions necessary for the public to respond to the alert. |
| 5.1.4.1.2 | The WAA shall provide necessary information for emergencies including, but not limited to, child abductions, severe weather watches and warnings, military activities, civil emergencies, other natural and human-caused disaster advisories, and law enforcement warnings. |
| 5.1.4.2 | WAA shall use available dynamic message signs, highway advisory radio, in-vehicle displays, 511 and other telephone information systems, traveler information web sites, transit vehicle information systems, message display boards, and other information systems to provide the WAA information to the public. |
| 5.1.4.2.1 | WAA shall tailor the information provided for individual driver and traveler information systems, limiting messages to short notifications for human-factors limited devices like dynamic message signs. |
| 5.1.4.3 | WAA shall keep the WAA initiator apprised of the current status of public notification, including an accounting of the driver and traveler information resources that are being utilized. |
| 5.1.4.4 | WAA shall notify transportation operators and information providers when public notification is no longer required. |
| 5.2 | EMERGENCY VEHICLE MANAGEMENT |
| 5.3 | DISASTER RESPONSE AND EVACUATION |
| 5.3.0 | ITS shall provide a Disaster Response and Evacuation (DRE) function that provides for effective, coordinated management of the surface transportation system during all types of disasters including natural disasters (hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, severe winter storms, tsunamis, etc.), terrorist acts, and other catastrophic events (e.g., nuclear power plant disasters). Two primary subservices are provided: (1) Disaster Response and (2) Evacuation Coordination. The Disaster Response Subservice provides support for planning, transportation management, resource sharing, and information coordination between transportation agencies and principal responding agencies (emergency management, public safety, and other allied agencies) to improve the effectiveness and safety of a disaster response. The Disaster Response Subservice consists of eight major functions: 1) Coordinate Response Plans, 2) Monitor Alert Levels, 3) Detect and Verify Emergency, 4) Assess Infrastructure Status, 5) Coordinate Response, 6) Critical Service Restoration, 7) Manage Area Transportation, and 8) Disaster Traveler Information. The Evacuation Coordination (EC) Subservice efficiently manages an evacuation and provides evacuees with the information they need during evacuation and subsequent reentry to the evacuated area. The Evacuation Coordination (EC) subservice includes four additional major functions: 9) Evacuation Planning Support, 10) Evacuation Traveler Information, 11) Evacuation Transportation Management, and 12) Evacuation Resource Sharing. |
| 5.3.2 | Disaster Response shall provide a Monitor Alert Levels (MAL) function. |
| 5.3.2.1 | MAL shall monitor alert levels and threat information provided by federal, state, and local agencies to include the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS) and related systems for terrorist alerts, the weather forecasts, watches, and warnings issued by the National Hurricane Center, other National Weather Service components and other weather service providers, and the various early warning systems operated by federal, state, and local emergency management agencies.. |
| 5.3.2.2 | MAL shall increase system preparedness as the alert level or the likelihood of a disaster increases, taking actions including: |
| 8.0 | MAINTENANCE AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT |
| 8.1 | MAINTENANCE AND CONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS |
| 8.1.1 | Maintenance and Construction Operations shall provide a Maintenance Vehicle Fleet Management (MVFM) function to schedule and dispatch, monitor and track location, and monitor operational condition and maintenance requirements of public and contracted fleets of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles. This function includes interactions among Traffic Managers, Supervisors, Dispatchers, Field Crews, Construction Crews, Vehicle Maintenance Crews, Equipment Maintenance Crews, Weather Services Organizations, and Information Service Providers. |
| 8.1.1.6 | MVFM shall be capable of providing dispatchers and operators of maintenance, construction, and specialized service vehicles with information regarding potential and actual roadway problems. |
| 8.1.1.6.1 | MVFM shall provide information to dispatchers and vehicle operators, including but not limited to: |
| 8.1.1.6.1(b) | Incidents |
| 8.1.4 | Maintenance and Construction Operations shall provide a Roadway Maintenance Conditions and Work Plan Dissemination (RMCWPD) function to provide Intra- and Inter-agency coordination of work plans. This function includes interactions among Traffic Managers, Supervisors, Planning Agencies, Public Safety Organizations, and Information Service Providers. |
| 8.1.4.3 | RMCWPD shall coordinate information with other transportation agencies, including but not limited to: |
| 8.1.4.3(a) | Public Safety |
| 8.1.4.3(b) | Emergency Medical Management |
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The detailed process and user service requirement traceability information on this page was extracted from the National ITS Architecture.
Consult the National
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