Equipment Package: Emergency Environmental Monitoring |
| Description: |
This equipment package assimilates current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information from a variety of sources, including both weather service providers and vehicle probes. The collected environmental information is monitored and presented to the operator. This information can be used to more effectively manage incidents. |
| Included In: |
County EOC
EMO Emergency Operations Center
Local EMS Dispatch
Local Fire Dispatch
Local Police Dispatch
Local PSAP
Local/Agency EOC
MTO Burlington TOC
MTO Downsview TOC
NFTA Metro Transit Police Dispatch
NFTA/Metro Bus and Rail Operations Control Center
Niagara Falls Transit Center
NITTEC Traffic Operations Center
NYSDEC Regional Office
NYSDOT Regional Emergency Operations Center
NYSTA Statewide Operations Center
Other Regional Public Safety Comm and Dispatch Centers
PBA TMC
Private/Public Ambulance Dispatch
RMN Emergency Operations Center
School District Transportation Dispatch
St. Catharines Transit Dispatch
State Emergency Operations Center
Welland Transit Center
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| General Functional Requirements |
1 -
The center shall collect current and forecast road and weather information from weather service providers (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services).
2 -
The center shall receive environmental probe information from its fleet of emergency vehicles.
3 -
The center shall collect current road and weather information from roadway maintenance operations.
4 -
The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information to support incident management.
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The center shall present the current and forecast road and weather information to the emergency system operator.
6 -
The center shall provide aggregated or processed environmental probe information from its fleet of emergency vehicles to traffic management and maintenance centers.
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