City of Lawrence Police Center - Emergency Management Functionality

Subsystem Description

The Emergency Management (EM) Subsystem represents public safety, emergency management, and other allied agency systems that support incident management, disaster response and evacuation, security monitoring, and other security and public safety-oriented ITS applications. The subsystem includes the functions associated with fixed and mobile public safety communications centers including public safety call taker and dispatch centers operated by police (including transit police), fire, and emergency medical services. It includes the functions associated with Emergency Operations Centers that are activated at local, regional, state, and federal levels for emergencies and the portable and transportable systems that support Incident Command System operations at an incident. This subsystem also represents other allied systems including centers associated with towing and recovery, freeway service patrols, HAZMAT response teams, and mayday service providers.  

The subsystem manages sensor and surveillance equipment used to enhance transportation security of the roadway infrastructure (including bridges, tunnels, interchanges, and other key roadway segments) and the public transportation system (including transit vehicles, public areas such as transit stops and stations, facilities such as transit yards, and transit infrastructure such as rail, bridges, tunnels, or bus guideways). The subsystem provides security/surveillance services to improve traveler security in public areas not a part of the public transportation system.  

This subsystem monitors alerts, advisories, and other threat information and prepares for and responds to identified emergencies. It interfaces with other Emergency Management Subsystems to support coordinated emergency response involving multiple agencies. The subsystem stores, coordinates, and utilizes emergency response and evacuation plans to facilitate this coordinated response. As the response progresses, situation information including damage assessments, response status, evacuation information, and resource information are shared to keep all allied agencies appraised of the response. Interface with the Transit Management Subsystem allows coordinated use of transit vehicles to facilitate response to major emergencies and to support evacuation efforts. The Emergency Management Subsystem also provides a focal point for coordination of the emergency and evacuation information that is provided to the traveling public, including wide-area alerts when immediate public notification is warranted.  

The subsystem tracks and manages emergency vehicle fleets using real-time road network status and routing information from the other center subsystems to aide in selecting the emergency vehicle(s) and routes that will provide the most timely response. Interface with the Traffic Management Subsystem allows strategic coordination in tailoring traffic control to support emergency vehicle ingress and egress, implementation of special traffic restrictions and closures, evacuation traffic control plans, and other special strategies that adapt the transportation system to better meet the unique demands of an emergency.

Functional Area: Emergency Data Collection

Collection and storage of information related to Emergency Management. For use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.

IDRequirementStatus
1The center shall collect emergency service data, emergency vehicle management data, emergency vehicle data, sensor and surveillance data, threat data, and incident data.Long-term
2The center shall assign quality control metrics and meta-data to be stored along with the data. Meta-data may include attributes that describe the source and quality of the data and the conditions surrounding the collection of the data.Long-term
3The center shall receive and respond to requests from ITS Archives for either a catalog of the emergency management data or for the data itself.Long-term
4The center shall be able to produce sample products of the data available.Long-term

Functional Area: Emergency Response Management

Strategic emergency planning and response capabilities and broad inter-agency interfaces to support large-scale incidents and disasters, commonly associated with Emergency Operations Centers.

IDRequirementStatus
1The center shall provide strategic emergency response capabilities provided by an Emergency Operations Center for large-scale incidents and disasters.Existing
2The center shall manage coordinated inter-agency responses to and recovery from large-scale emergencies. Such agencies include traffic management, transit, maintenance and construction management, rail operations, and other emergency management agencies.Medium-term
3The center shall provide the capability to implement response plans and track progress through the incident by exchanging incident information and response status with allied agencies.Existing
4The center shall develop, coordinate with other agencies, and store emergency response plans.Existing
5The center shall track the availability of resources and coordinate resource sharing with allied agency centers including traffic, maintenance, or other emergency centers.Existing
6The center shall allocate the appropriate emergency services, resources, and vehicle (s) to respond to incidents, and shall provide the capability to override the current allocation to suit the special needs of a current incident.Existing
7The center shall receive event scheduling information from Event Promoters.Medium-term
12The center shall provide information to the media concerning the status of an emergency response.Existing
13The center shall provide the capability for digitized map data to act as the background to the information presented to the emergency system operator.Medium-term
14The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to provide inputs to the management of incidents, disasters and evacuations.Existing
15The center shall collect information about the status of the recovery efforts for the infrastructure during disasters.Medium-term
16The center shall provide the overall status of infrastructure recovery efforts to traveler information providers and media.Medium-term

Functional Area: Emergency Routing

Routing of emergency vehicles to facilitate the quickest/safest arrival. Routes may be determined based on real-time traffic information and road conditions or routes may be provided by Traffic Management on request.

IDRequirementStatus
1The center shall collect current traffic and road condition information for emergency vehicle route calculation.Existing
2The center shall receive information on the location and status of traffic control equipment and work zones along potential emergency routes.Existing
3The center shall receive status information from care facilities to determine the appropriate facility and its location.Existing
4The center shall receive asset restriction information to support the dispatching of appropriate emergency resources.Existing
5The center shall receive current railroad schedule information for emergency vehicle route calculation.Existing
6The center shall track current emergency vehicle location and status.Existing
7The center shall calculate emergency vehicle routes, under center personnel control, based on the collected traffic and road conditions information.Existing
8The center shall request and receive ingress and egress routes or other specialized emergency access routes from the traffic management center.Existing
9The center shall 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.Existing
10Once the route is calculated the route shall be provided to the dispatch function.Existing

Functional Area: Emergency Transportation Operations Data Collection

Collects real-time information on the state of the regional transportation system for operational use by the center. It establishes communications with a regional repository, requests or subscribes to information relevant to the center, and distributes the received information for use.

IDRequirementStatus
1The center shall collect real-time information on the state of the regional transportation system including current traffic and road conditions, weather conditions, special event and incident information.Near-term
2The center shall support the capability for the system operator to monitor and control the information collection service.Near-term

Functional Area: Incident Command

Tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among emergency management agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.

IDRequirementStatus
1The 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.Existing
2The center shall provide incident command communications with public safety, emergency management, transportation, and other allied response agency centers.Existing
5The center shall assess the status of responding emergency vehicles as part of an incident command.Existing