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National Park Service Center - VA - Inventory Element

Status: Existing

Definition:

This element represents the GW National Park Services that report traffic incidents that occur on the George Washington (GW) Parkway. The Virginia National Park Services will also send incident and work zone information to the VDOT NRO MPSTOC-TOC and Maryland CHART. Public safety services are also represented in this element through the park police that respond to emergencies on the GW Parkway.

Stakeholder: National Park Service/United States Park Police (NPS/USPP)

Systems Interconnected with National Park Service Center - VA

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National Park Service Center - VA flows into icon National Park Service Centers - DC - MD National Park Service Center - VA flows into icon VDOT NOVA District Construction Management National Park Service Center - VA flows into icon VDOT NOVA District Maintenance National Park Service Center - VA flows into icon VDOT NRO MPSTOC - TOC National Park Service Center - VA flows into icon VDOT NRO Operations Maintenance National Park Service Centers - DC - MDflows into iconNational Park Service Center - VA VDOT NOVA District Construction Managementflows into iconNational Park Service Center - VA VDOT NOVA District Maintenanceflows into iconNational Park Service Center - VA VDOT NRO MPSTOC - TOCflows into iconNational Park Service Center - VA VDOT NRO Operations Maintenanceflows into iconNational Park Service Center - VA VDOT Video Clearinghousesflows into iconNational Park Service Center - VA

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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 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.
MCM Work Activity Coordination
  1. The center shall provide work zone activities affecting the road network including the nature of the maintenance or construction activity, location, impact to the roadway, expected time(s) and duration of impact, anticipated delays, alternate routes, and suggested speed limits. This information may be augmented with images that provide a visual indication of current work zone status and traffic impacts.
  2. The center shall provide status information about scheduled maintenance and construction activities including anticipated closures and impact to the roadway, alternate routes, anticipated delays, closure times, and durations. The information is provided to other management centers such as traffic, emergency, transit, traveler information providers, other maintenance centers, multimodal transportation providers, rail operations, and the media.
TMC Incident Dispatch Coordination/Communication
  1. The center shall exchange alert information and status with emergency management centers. The information includes notification of a major emergency such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, or child abduction for distribution to the public. The information may include the alert 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. This may also identify specific information that should not be released to the public.
  2. The center shall share resources with allied agency centers to implement special traffic control measures, assist in clean up, verify an incident, etc. This may also involve coordination with maintenance centers.
  3. The center shall receive inputs concerning upcoming events that would effect the traffic network from event promoters, traveler information service providers, media, border crossings, and rail operations centers.
  4. The center shall coordinate information and controls with other traffic management centers.

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