1.3.5: Manage Incident Response Planning and Traffic Management Decision Support

This process shall manage the planning for incident management - what strategies to employ for a given situation. The process shall provide decision support for corridor-wide operations by recommending courses of action to another process that provides an interface with the traffic operations personnel based on predetermined response plans. As a decision support tool, the impact of potential courses of action are determined by the process. To assess the impact and create recommendations, this process shall analyze data received from a variety of sources, including network imbalances calculated by another process, network performance measures, demand forecasts based on current and historical data, predictive traffic models, and from the log of incident responses. Recommendations for courses of action will be controlled by decision support parameters from traffic operations personnel. Possible predetermined incident responses shall be identified based on the data and shall be stored (possible_defined_responses). This process shall enable retrieval of the data from this store for presentation to traffic operations personnel and its possible transfer to the store of predetermined incident responses (defined_responses_data). The operator shall have the capability to view, modify, or override the predetermined response (defined_responses_data). If the process cannot find a predetermined response for a particular incident, it shall send the details of the incident to the traffic operations personnel so that they can provide an update to this store.

This process is associated with the Traffic Management Center physical object.

This process is associated with the following functional objects:

• TMC Incident Dispatch Coordination
• TMC Traffic Management Decision Support

This process is associated with the following data flows:

• decision_support_parameters
• defined_incident_response_data
• defined_incident_response_data_request
• defined_incident_response_update_request
• defined_incident_response_updates
• defined_responses
• defined_responses_data_request
• demand_forecast
• imbalance_warning
• incident_response_log_from_other_traffic_mgmt
• incident_response_log_output
• possible_defined_responses_output
• possible_defined_responses_output_request
• predefined_traffic_disaster_plan
• predefined_traffic_evacuation_plan
• predetermined_incident_response_data
• request_predefined_traffic_disaster_plan
• request_predefined_traffic_evacuation_plan
• request_predetermined_incident_response_data
• traffic_performance_measures