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VSP Mobile Unified Command Center - Inventory Element

Status: Existing

Definition:

This element represents a virtual command center that allows several agencies to coordinate their activities for major incidents (incidents that closed two or more lanes and/or last longer than two hours).

Stakeholder: Virginia State Police

Systems Interconnected with VSP Mobile Unified Command Center

Interconnect Diagram


Information Flow Diagrams which include VSP Mobile Unified Command Center:

Information Flows to/from VSP Mobile Unified Command Center:

VSP Mobile Unified Command Center flows into icon DC Homeland Security and Emergency Centers VSP Mobile Unified Command Center flows into icon Fairfax County Public Safety Communications Center - MPSTOC VSP Mobile Unified Command Center flows into icon Maryland Local Public Safety Centers VSP Mobile Unified Command Center flows into icon NRO Local Public Safety Centers VSP Mobile Unified Command Center flows into icon VDOT Arlington SSP Vehicles VSP Mobile Unified Command Center flows into icon VDOT NOVA District Construction Management VSP Mobile Unified Command Center flows into icon VDOT NOVA District Maintenance VSP Mobile Unified Command Center flows into icon VDOT NRO MPSTOC - TOC VSP Mobile Unified Command Center flows into icon WMATA Transit Police (MTPD) Control Center DC Homeland Security and Emergency Centersflows into iconVSP Mobile Unified Command Center Fairfax County Public Safety Communications Center - MPSTOCflows into iconVSP Mobile Unified Command Center Maryland Local Public Safety Centersflows into iconVSP Mobile Unified Command Center NRO Local Public Safety Centersflows into iconVSP Mobile Unified Command Center VDOT Arlington SSP Vehiclesflows into iconVSP Mobile Unified Command Center VDOT NOVA District Construction Managementflows into iconVSP Mobile Unified Command Center VDOT NOVA District Maintenanceflows into iconVSP Mobile Unified Command Center VDOT NRO MPSTOC - TOCflows into iconVSP Mobile Unified Command Center WMATA Transit Police (MTPD) Control Centerflows into iconVSP Mobile Unified Command Center

National ITS Architecture Subsystems mapped to VSP Mobile Unified Command Center:

National ITS Architecture Market Packages associated with VSP Mobile Unified Command Center:

National ITS Architecture Functional Requirements associated with VSP Mobile Unified Command Center:

Incident Command
  1. 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.
  2. The center shall provide incident command communications with public safety, emergency management, transportation, and other allied response agency centers.
  3. The center shall track and maintain resource information and action plans pertaining to the incident command.
  4. 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.
  5. The center shall assess the status of responding emergency vehicles as part of an incident command.
Emergency Evacuation Support
  1. The center shall request traffic management agencies to implement special traffic control strategies and to control evacuation traffic, including traffic on local streets and arterials as well as the major evacuation routes.
  2. 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.
  3. The center shall monitor the progress of the reentry process.
TMC Evacuation Support
  1. The center shall coordinate information and controls with other traffic management centers.
  2. The center shall coordinate execution of evacuation strategies with emergency management centers - including activities such as setting closures and detours, establishing routes, updating areas to be evacuated, timing the process, etc.

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