Physical Object: Emergency Management Center

Emergency Early Warning System

Overview

'Emergency Early Warning System' monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies and uses this information to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters. Notification is provided to initiate the emergency response, including public notification using ITS traveler information systems, where appropriate.

This functional object is included in the "Emergency Management Center" physical object.

This functional object is included in the following service packages:

This functional object is mapped to the following Functional View PSpecs:

Requirements

# Requirement
01 The center shall monitor information from Alerting and Advisory Systems such as the Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs), the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS), etc. The information may include assessments (general incident and vulnerability awareness information), advisories (identification of threats or recommendations to increase preparedness levels), or alerts (information on imminent or in-progress emergencies).
02 The center shall receive incident information from other transportation management centers to support the early warning system.
03 The center shall support the entry of alert and advisory information directly from the emergency system operator.
04 The center shall receive potential incident information from social media sources to support the early warning system.
05 The center shall provide the capability to correlate alerts and advisories, incident information, and security sensor and surveillance data.
06 The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to traffic management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
07 The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to transit management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
08 The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to toll administration centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
09 The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to traveler information service providers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
10 The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to maintenance centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
11 The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to other emergency management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
12 The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to commercial vehicle administration centers and roadside check facilities for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
13 The center shall process status information from each of the centers that have been sent the wide-area alert.
14 The center shall coordinate the broadcast of wide-area alerts and advisories with other emergency management centers.
15 The center shall present the alert and advisory information and the status of the actions taken in response to the alert by the other centers to the emergency system operator as received from other system inputs.

Information Flows

Source Flow Destination
Alerting and Advisory System alerts and advisories Emergency Management Center
Emergency Management Center alert notification Maint and Constr Management Center
Emergency Management Center alert notification Traffic Management Center
Emergency Management Center alert notification Transit Management Center
Emergency Management Center alert notification Transportation Information Center
Emergency Management Center alert notification coordination Other Emergency Management Centers
Emergency Management Center alert notification for social media Social Media
Emergency Management Center emergency operations status Emergency System Operator
Emergency Management Center incident information Maint and Constr Management Center
Emergency Management Center incident information Rail Operations Center
Emergency Management Center incident information Traffic Management Center
Emergency Management Center incident information Transit Management Center
Emergency Management Center incident information for public Emergency Telecommunications System
Emergency Management Center incident information for public Transportation Information Center
Emergency Management Center incident report Other Emergency Management Centers
Emergency System Operator emergency operations input Emergency Management Center
Maint and Constr Management Center alert status Emergency Management Center
Maint and Constr Management Center incident information Emergency Management Center
Other Emergency Management Centers alert notification coordination Emergency Management Center
Other Emergency Management Centers incident report Emergency Management Center
Rail Operations Center incident information Emergency Management Center
Social Media traveler sourced updates Emergency Management Center
Traffic Management Center alert status Emergency Management Center
Traffic Management Center incident information Emergency Management Center
Transit Management Center alert status Emergency Management Center
Transit Management Center transit emergency data Emergency Management Center
Transportation Information Center alert status Emergency Management Center

Standards

Currently, there are no standards associated with the functional object itself though the interfaces may have standards associated with them.