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Emergency Management project sponsors may choose to consider the following functions
when defining functional requirements for a specific project.
A typical emergency management project is able to:
- provide the capability to request special traffic control measures, such as signal preemption, from the traffic management center to facilitate emergency vehicle progress along the suggested route.
- provide the capability for digitized map data to act as the background to the information presented to the emergency system operator.
- respond to requests for indicator (e.g., signal) preemption requests from emergency vehicles at intersections, pedestrian crossings, and multimodal crossings.
- notify controlling traffic management center and maintenance center that the signal timing has changed based on a signal preemption/priority request to help those centers determine whether a fault detected at the signal is a true malfunction or due to a signal override.
- dispatch roadway service patrol vehicles to identified incident locations.
- provide strategic emergency response capabilities and incident response plans such as that of an Emergency Operations Center for large-scale incidents and disasters.
- track the availability of resources and assist in the appropriate allocation of resources for a particular incident response.
- track and manage Freeway Service Patrol tow trucks.
- request alerts on appropriate dissemination devices.
- maintain and update a web site showing CHP-responded incidents.
- provide two-way communications to support vehicle tracking.
- send incident information to CAD system.
- coordinate with traffic management for evacuation scenarios.
- provide the capability to expand real-time emergency management response functions.
- broadcast area wide alerts and incident
information to transit users.
- collect and disseminate feeds from
transit video infrastructure.
- coordinate with transit agencies to
provide transit service as travel alternatives when parts of the
transportation system are shut down.
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