TMC Incident Detection Equipment Package

Description:

Remotely controls traffic and video sensors to support incident detection and verification; exchange information with other agencies including emergency management, maintenance and construction, alerting and advisory systems, event promoters, intermodal freight depots, and traveler information systems.

Included in:

Bridge or Tunnel Operations TOC
Provincial Ministry of Transport TMC
Regional Traffic Management Center
State DOT TMC

Functional Requirements:

1	The center shall receive inputs from the Alerting and Advisory System concerning the possibility or occurrence of severe weather, terrorist activity, or other major emergency, including information provided by the Emergency Alert System.
2	The center shall collect and store traffic flow and image data from the field equipment to detect and verify incidents.
3	The center shall receive inputs concerning upcoming events that would effect the traffic network from event promoters, traveler information service providers, and intermodal freight depots.
4	The center shall exchange incident and threat information with emergency management centers as well as maintenance and construction centers; including notification of existence of incident and expected severity, location, time and nature of incident.
5	The center shall support requests from emergency management centers to remotely control sensor and surveillance equipment located in the field.
6	The center shall provide road network conditions and traffic images to emergency management centers to support the detection, verification, and classification of incidents.
7	The center shall provide video and traffic sensor control commands to the field equipment to detect and verify incidents.

The detailed functional area and functional requirement traceability information on this page was extracted from the National ITS Architecture. Consult the National ITS Architecture web site for more information.

Last Update: 01-29-2006