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Wide-Area Alert

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Description

This service package uses ITS driver and traveller information systems to alert the public in emergency situations such as child abductions, severe weather events, civil emergencies, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property. The alert includes information and instructions for transportation system operators and the travelling public, improving public safety and enlisting the public’s help in some scenarios. The ITS technologies will supplement and support other emergency and homeland security alert systems such as the Emergency Alert System (EAS). When an emergency situation is reported and verified and the terms and conditions for system activation are satisfied, a designated agency broadcasts emergency information to traffic agencies, transit agencies, information service providers, toll operators, and others that operate ITS systems. The ITS systems, in turn, provide the alert information to transportation system operators and the travelling public using ITS technologies such as dynamic message signs, highway advisory radios, in-vehicle displays, transit displays, 511 traveller information systems, and traveller information web sites.

Includes Equipment Packages and Subsystems

Equipment Package	Subsystem
Emergency Early Warning System	Emergency Management
ISP Emergency Traveller Information	Information Service Provider
ISP Traveller Data Collection	Information Service Provider
Traveller Telephone Information	Information Service Provider
MCM Incident Management	Maintenance and Construction Management
Personal Basic Information Reception	Personal Information Access
Remote Transit Information Services	Remote Traveller Support
Remote Basic Information Reception	Remote Traveller Support
Roadway Traffic Information Dissemination	Roadway Subsystem
Toll Operator Alert	Toll Administration
Toll Plaza Toll Collection	Toll Collection
TMC Incident Dispatch Coordination/Communication	Traffic Management
TMC Traffic Information Dissemination	Traffic Management
Transit Centre Information Services	Transit Management
Transit Centre Security	Transit Management
Basic Vehicle Reception	Vehicle

Includes Architecture Flows

Source	Architecture Flow	Destination	In Graphic
Alerting and Advisory Systems	alerts and advisories	Emergency Management	Yes
Driver	driver inputs	Vehicle	No
Emergency Management	emergency operations status	Emergency System Operator	No
Emergency Management	alert notification	Information Service Provider	Yes
Emergency Management	alert notification	Maintenance and Construction Management	Yes
Emergency Management	alert notification coordination	Other Emergency Management	Yes
Emergency Management	alert notification	Toll Administration	Yes
Emergency Management	alert notification	Traffic Management	Yes
Emergency Management	alert notification	Transit Management	Yes
Emergency System Operator	emergency operations inputs	Emergency Management	No
Information Service Provider	alert status	Emergency Management	Yes
Information Service Provider	ISP operations information presentation	ISP Operator	No
Information Service Provider	emergency traveller information	Personal Information Access	Yes
Information Service Provider	emergency traveller information	Remote Traveller Support	Yes
Information Service Provider	voice-based alert notification	Telecommunications System for Traveller Information	Yes
Information Service Provider	emergency traveller information	Vehicle	Yes
ISP Operator	ISP operator inputs	Information Service Provider	No
Maintenance and Construction Centre Personnel	maint and constr centre personnel inputs	Maintenance and Construction Management	No
Maintenance and Construction Management	alert status	Emergency Management	Yes
Maintenance and Construction Management	maint and constr operations information presentation	Maintenance and Construction Centre Personnel	No
Other Emergency Management	alert notification coordination	Emergency Management	Yes
Personal Information Access	traveller interface updates	Traveller	No
Remote Traveller Support	traveller interface updates	Traveller	No
Roadway Subsystem	driver information	Driver	No
Roadway Subsystem	roadway information system status	Traffic Management	Yes
Telecommunications System for Traveller Information	voice-based traveller request	Information Service Provider	Yes
Toll Administration	alert status	Emergency Management	Yes
Toll Administration	toll information presentation	Toll Administrator	No
Toll Administration	toll advisories	Toll Collection	No
Toll Administrator	toll administration requests	Toll Administration	No
Traffic Management	alert status	Emergency Management	Yes
Traffic Management	roadway information system data	Roadway Subsystem	Yes
Traffic Management	traffic operator data	Traffic Operations Personnel	No
Traffic Operations Personnel	traffic operator inputs	Traffic Management	No
Transit Management	alert status	Emergency Management	Yes
Transit Management	transit traveller information	Remote Traveller Support	Yes
Transit Management	transit operations status	Transit Operations Personnel	No
Transit Management	transit traveller information	Transit Vehicle Subsystem	Yes
Transit Management	transit vehicle operator information	Transit Vehicle Subsystem	Yes
Transit Operations Personnel	transit operations personnel inputs	Transit Management	No
Traveller	traveller inputs	Personal Information Access	No
Traveller	traveller inputs	Remote Traveller Support	No
Vehicle	driver updates	Driver	No