Hartford Area ITS Architecture Update

Element Expanded Functional Requirements: North Central CMED Dispatch

Functional Area: Emergency Dispatch
  1. The center shall dispatch emergency vehicles to respond to verified emergencies under center personnel control.
  2. The center shall store the current status of all emergency vehicles available for dispatch and those that have been dispatched.
  3. The center shall relay location and incident details to the responding vehicles.
  4. The center shall track the location and status of emergency vehicles responding to an emergency based on information from the emergency vehicle.
  5. The center shall store and maintain the emergency service responses in an action log.
  6. The center shall provide the capability for digitized map data to act as the background to the information presented to the emergency system operator.
  7. The center shall receive traffic images to support dispatch of emergency vehicles.
  8. The center shall provide the capability to request remote control of traffic surveillance devices
  9. The center shall coordinate response to incidents with other Emergency Management centers to ensure appropriate resources are dispatched and utilized.
Functional Area: Emergency Routing
  1. The center shall collect current traffic and road condition information for emergency vehicle route calculation.
  2. The center shall receive information on the location and status of traffic control equipment and work zones along potential emergency routes.
  3. The center shall receive status information from care facilities to determine the appropriate facility and its location.
  4. The center shall receive asset restriction information to support the dispatching of appropriate emergency resources.
  5. The center shall receive current railroad schedule information for emergency vehicle route calculation.
  6. The center shall track current emergency vehicle location and status.
  7. The center shall calculate emergency vehicle routes, under center personnel control, based on the collected traffic and road conditions information.
  8. The center shall request and receive ingress and egress routes or other specialized emergency access routes from the traffic management center.
  9. The center shall provide the capability to request special traffic control measures, such as signal preemption, from the traffic management center to facilitate emergency vehicle progress along the suggested route.
  10. Once the route is calculated the route shall be provided to the dispatch function.
  11. The center shall provide the capability for digitized map data to act as the background to the information presented to the emergency system operator.
Functional Area: Incident Command
  1. The center shall provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
  2. The center shall provide incident command communications with public safety, emergency management, transportation, and other allied response agency centers.
  3. The center shall track and maintain resource information and action plans pertaining to the incident command.
  4. The center shall share incident command information with other public safety agencies including resource deployment status, hazardous material information, rail incident information, evacuation advice as well as traffic, road, and weather conditions.
  5. The center shall assess the status of responding emergency vehicles as part of an incident command.