Vancouver Area Regional ITS Architecture

Incident Management Roles and Responsibilities

Stakeholder	Role and Responsibility
City of Camas	Information Sharing: Local agencies within the region share information with local transportation agencies to minimize the impact of a roadway incident on local surface street traffic through a subscriber notification group.
	Control Sharing: City owns roadway equipment that the state is able to control to better coordinate during incidents.
	Consultation: Information for major events are generally shared between agencies by a phone call.
City of Vancouver
	Control Sharing: Ability to operate other agency roadside equipment
	Information Sharing: Local agencies within the region share information with local transportation agencies to minimize the impact of a roadway incident on local surface street traffic through a subscriber notification group.
	Consultation: Information for major events are generally shared between agencies by a phone call.
Clark County	Control Sharing: Ability to operate other agency roadside equipment
	Consultation: Information for major events are generally shared between agencies by a phone call.
	Information Sharing: Local agencies within the region share information with local transportation agencies to minimize the impact of a roadway incident on local surface street traffic through a subscriber notification group.
Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency (CRESA)	Information Sharing: CRESA has a direct connection to the SWR TMC to communicate and view CCTV camera images.
	Consultation: Local city and county emergency responders can request that messages be placed on WSDOT roadside devices (DMS/VMS, HAR).
CTRAN	Information Sharing: Receives incident information to re-route or dispatch transit service around incidents
	Information Sharing: Disseminates service adjustements due to incidents via the transit traveler information website.
Local Emergency Responders	Consultation: Local city and county emergency responders can request that messages be placed on WSDOT roadside devices (DMS/VMS, HAR).
Local Transportation Agencies	Consultation: Information for major events are generally shared between agencies by a phone call.
	Information Sharing: WSDOT shares information with local agencies to minimize the impact of a State roadway incident on local surface street traffic through a subscriber notification group.
	Control Sharing: Some local agencies that own roadway equipment, such as traffic signals and cameras may allow the state to control these devices to better coordinate during incidents.
ODOT Region 1	Information Sharing: WSDOT is upgrading CARS (Condition Acquisition and Reporting System) to be able to accept ODOT's TripCheck traveler information for incidents.
	Consultation: WSDOT and ODOT communicate with each other during events that impact both agencies. The two agencies can also request that specific messages be placed on the other agency's roadside devices.
Washington State Emergency Management	Information Sharing: WSDOT ETCC is a centralized repository for incident information.
Washington State Patrol (WSP)	Information Sharing: WSDOT and WSP are co-located and share video images to better coordinate incident response between the two agencies. State Troopers can also request specific messages to be placed on roadside equipment (DMS). And in the Southwest Region, the WSP CAD system and the WSDOT CARS systems are linked to automatically ingest incident information and disseminate that information to the traveling
WSDOT Headquarters	Information Sharing: The WSDOT headquarters gathers and disseminates traveler information from all sources to better inform travelers. This reduces congestion by informing traveler of incidents before they reach the scene, and allows travelers to make informed decisions to avoid the accident area if possible.
WSDOT Regions	Information Sharing: Incident information and video is shared between regional TMC's to notify the public as they travel between the different regions.
	Control Sharing: WSDOT is deploying a suite of TMC applications that will make it possible to control other TMC's devices should they need to.
	Consultation: WSDOT Regional TMC's communicate between each other to request information placed on another region's roadside equipment.
WSDOT Southwest Region (SWR)	Information Sharing: The WSDOT SWR TMC shares information with other transportation management centers, transit, media, etc to minimize congestion due to incidents. The agency also pushes major incident information through their Notification Group subscribers via email, text messaging or paging.
	Control Sharing: Ability to operate other agency roadside equipment
	Operations: WSDOT SWR TMCs operate and maintain roadway equipment used to identify incidents and alert the traveling public.