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Shelter Providers

This terminator provides information about the shelters that open with the threat of a disaster and are operated and maintained until the threat has passed. This terminator may represent individual shelters if they have the capability to provide current information directly to ITS or it may represent a managing organization that operates the shelters and collects and provides aggregate shelter information for a region.

Inputs/Outputs: Architecture Flows and Data Flows

Emergency Management > Shelter Providers

Information Service Provider > Shelter Providers

  • emergency traveller information - Public notification of an emergency such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, or child abduction. This flow also includes evacuation information including evacuation instructions, evacuation zones, recommended evacuation times, tailored evacuation routes and destinations, traffic and road conditions along the evacuation routes, traveller services and shelter information, and reentry times and instructions.
    Data Flows:

Shelter Providers > Emergency Management

Shelter Providers > Information Service Provider