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Element Expanded Functional Requirements: Maui EOC |
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Functional Area: Emergency Response Management |
- The center shall provide strategic emergency response capabilities provided by an Emergency Operations Center for large-scale incidents and disasters.
- The center shall manage coordinated inter-agency responses to and recovery from large-scale emergencies. Such agencies include traffic management, transit, maintenance and construction management, rail operations, and other emergency management agencies.
- The center shall provide the capability to implement response plans and track progress through the incident by exchanging incident information and response status with allied agencies.
- The center shall develop, coordinate with other agencies, and store emergency response plans.
- The center shall track the availability of resources and coordinate resource sharing with allied agency centers including traffic, maintenance, or other emergency centers.
- The center shall allocate the appropriate emergency services, resources, and vehicle (s) to respond to incidents, and shall provide the capability to override the current allocation to suit the special needs of a current incident.
- The center shall receive event scheduling information from Event Promoters.
- The center shall support remote control of field equipment normally under control of the traffic management center including traffic signals, dynamic message signs, gates, and barriers.
- The center shall provide the capability to remotely control and monitor CCTV systems normally operated by a traffic management center.
- The center shall provide the capability to request transit resource availability from transit centers for use during disaster and evacuation operations.
- The center shall assimilate the damage assessment of the transit, traffic, rail, maintenance, and other emergency center services and systems to create an overall transportation system status, and disseminate to each of these centers and the traveling public via traveler information providers.
- The center shall provide information to the media concerning the status of an emergency response.
- The center shall provide the capability for digitized map data to act as the background to the information presented to the emergency system operator.
- The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to provide inputs to the management of incidents, disasters and evacuations.
- The center shall collect information about the status of the recovery efforts for the infrastructure during disasters.
- The center shall provide the overall status of infrastructure recovery efforts to traveler information providers and media.
- The center shall provide the capability to communicate information about emergency situations to local population through the Emergency Telecommunications System.
- The center shall provide the capability to identify neighborhoods and businesses that should be informed of an emergency situation based on information collected about incidents including their severity, impacted locations, and recovery schedule.
- The center shall retrieve information from public health systems to increase preparedness for, and implement a response to biological, chemical, radiation, and other public health emergencies.
- The center shall manage coordinated inter-agency responses to incidents at an international border.
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Functional Area: Emergency Evacuation Support |
- The center shall manage inter-agency coordination of evacuation operations, from initial planning through the evacuation process and reentry.
- The center shall develop and exchange evacuation plans with allied agencies prior to the occurrence of a disaster.
- The center shall provide an interface to the emergency system operator to enter evacuation plans and procedures and present the operator with other agencies' plans.
- The center shall coordinate evacuation destinations and shelter needs with shelter providers (e.g., the American Red Cross) in the region.
- The center shall provide evacuation information to traffic, transit, maintenance and construction, rail operations, and other emergency management centers as needed.
- The center shall request resources from transit agencies as needed to support the evacuation.
- The center shall request traffic management agencies to implement special traffic control strategies and to control evacuation traffic, including traffic on local streets and arterials as well as the major evacuation routes.
- The center shall provide traveler information systems with evacuation guidance including basic information to assist potential evacuees in determining whether evacuation is necessary and when it is safe to return.
- The center shall monitor the progress or status of the evacuation once it begins and exchange tactical plans, prepared during the incident, with allied agencies.
- The center shall monitor the progress of the reentry process.
- The center shall submit evacuation information to toll administration centers along with requests for changes in the toll services or fee collection during an evacuation.
- The center shall retrieve information from public health systems to plan for and implement evacuations or in-place sheltering for biological, chemical, radiation, and other public health emergencies.
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Functional Area: Emergency Early Warning System |
- The center shall monitor information from Alerting and Advisory Systems such as the Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs), the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS), etc. The information may include assessments (general incident and vulnerability awareness information), advisories (identification of threats or recommendations to increase preparedness levels), or alerts (information on imminent or in-progress emergencies).
- The center shall provide the capability to correlate alerts and advisories, incident information, and security sensor and surveillance data.
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to traffic management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to transit management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to toll administration centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to traveler information service providers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to maintenance centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to other emergency management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to commercial vehicle administration centers and roadside check facilities for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
- The center shall process status information from each of the centers that have been sent the wide-area alert.
- The center shall coordinate the broadcast of wide-area alerts and advisories with other emergency management centers.
- The center shall receive incident information from other transportation management centers to support the early warning system.
- The center shall present the alert and advisory information and the status of the actions taken in response to the alert by the other centers to the emergency system operator as received from other system inputs.
- The center shall support the entry of alert and advisory information directly from the emergency system operator.
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to traffic management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to other emergency management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
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