Transportation Management Roles and Responsibilities

StakeholderRole and Responsibility
City of CamasConsultation: Local transportation agencies provide transportation information as needed.
City of VancouverConsultation: Local transportation agencies provide transportation information as needed.
Clark CountyConsultation: Local transportation agencies provide transportation information as needed.
Local Transportation AgenciesConsultation: Local transportation agencies provide WSDOT with information as needed.
Information Sharing: WSDOT and local agencies (Clark County and City of Vancouver) share traffic information to help improve congestion in the Vancouver metro area.
ODOT Region 1Information Sharing: WSDOT and ODOT exchange real-time data such as CCTV camera images, highway condition reporting and traffic flow data in the Portland/Vancouver Metropolitian area.
Southwest Washington Regional Transportation Council (RTC)Consultation: Facilitates information sharing between local transportation agencies through the VAST program
TravelersInformation Sharing: In the future "intelligent vehicles" will be able to communicate with roadside equipment to provide traffic condition information.
VASTInformation Sharing: Stakeholders participate in regional projects to share and coordination transportation management within the Vancouver region.
Washington State Patrol (WSP)Cooperation: WSP can request that specific messages be placed on roadside devices..
Information Sharing: WSP shares information such as incident data with the TMC to increase traveler information and decrease congestion due to rapid response times from both WSDOT Incident Response Teams and WSP Troopers.
WSDOT HeadquartersInformation Sharing: WSDOT's Traveler information website compiles congestion information such as video images, traffic flow maps and incident data in a centralized location.
WSDOT RegionsInformation Sharing: Information sharing between counties may include sharing highway condition information, traffic flow data, and video images as congestion may span more than one county.
WSDOT Southwest Region (SWR)Information Sharing: WSDOT provides automated notifications to subscribers for major events in the region. This notification can be email, page, or text message.
Consultation: Provides information as needed to other transportation management centers and local transportation agencies.