CapCom - Inventory Element

CapCom Center - Inventory Element

Interconnects -- Flows -- Entities -- Market Packages -- Functional Area

Status: Planned

Definition: This element represents the proposed integration between existing transportation and mangement systems in VA, MD and DC into a regional integrated transportation information sytsem (RITIS). CapCOM center will host the RITIS and provide staff to monitor, fuse and disseminate the data from a regional perspective. CapCOM Member agencies include: FHWA, Metropolitan Washington COG, Virginia DOT, Maryland State Highway Administration, DC Department of Public Works WMATA, Montogomery Department of Public Works

Stakeholder CapCOM

Systems Interconnected with CapCOM Center:

Interconnect Diagram

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Information Flow Diagrams which include CapCOM Center:

Information Flows to/from the CapCOM Center

National ITS Architecture Subsystems mapped to the CapCOM Center:

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National ITS Architecture Market Packages associated with CapCOM Center:
ATMS01 - Network Surveillance
ATMS04 - Freeway Patrol
ATMS06 - Traffic Information Dissemination
ATMS08 - Traffic Incident Management System
ATMS21 - Roadway Closure Management
MC04 - Weather Information Processing and Distribution
MC07 - Roadway Maintenance and Construction
MC10 - Maintenance and Construction Activity Coordination
EM05 - Transportation Infrastructure Protection
EM06 - Wide-Area Alert
EM07 - Early Warning System
EM08 - Disaster Response and Recovery
EM10 - Disaster Traveler Information

National ITS Architecture Functional Area associated with CapCOM Center:

Basic Information Broadcast - Collection, processing, storage, and broadcast dissemination of traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, event, and weather information to traveler interface systems and vehicles.
Emergency Early Warning System - Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters. Notification is provided to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public. Includes support for Child Abduction notices.
Emergency Evacuation Support - Evacuation planning and coordination to manage evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.

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.

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.

Interactive Infrastructure Information - Collection, processing, storage, and personalized dissemination of traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, multimodal, event, and weather information to traveler interface systems and vehicles, upon request.

ISP Emergency Traveler Information - Collection and distribution of emergency information to the traveler public, including evacuation information and wide-area alerts.

TMC Evacuation Support - Development, coordination, and execution of special traffic management strategies during evacuation and subsequent reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or major emergency. Interfaces with emergency management and other traffic management centers.

TMC Freeway Management - Remotely controls ramp meters, mainline metering, and lane controls on freeways based on upstream and downstream traffic flow and ramp queue length algorithms.

TMC Incident Detection - 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.

TMC Incident Dispatch Coordination/Communication - Center-based capability to formulate an incident response that takes into account the incident potential, incident impacts, and/or resources required for incident management including proposing and facilitating the dispatch of emergency response and service vehicles as well as coordinating response with all appropriate cooperating agencies.

TMC Traffic Information Dissemination - Controls dissemination of traffic-related data to other centers, the media, and travelers via the driver information systems (DMS, HAR) that it operates.

Detailed "SHALL" statements can be found in the Turbo Database.