EM06-Wide-Area Alert

Status

Planned

Description

This service package uses ITS driver and traveler information systems to alert the public in emergency situations such as child abductions, severe weather events, civil emergencies, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property. The alert includes information and instructions for transportation system operators and the traveling public, improving public safety and enlisting the public’s help in some scenarios. The ITS technologies will supplement and support other emergency and homeland security alert systems such as the Emergency Alert System (EAS). When an emergency situation is reported and verified and the terms and conditions for system activation are satisfied, a designated agency broadcasts emergency information to traffic agencies, transit agencies, information service providers, toll operators, and others that operate ITS systems. The ITS systems, in turn, provide the alert information to transportation system operators and the traveling public using ITS technologies such as dynamic message signs, highway advisory radios, in-vehicle displays, transit displays, 511 traveler information systems, and traveler information web sites.

Includes Elements

Statewide Emergency Operations Center
Statewide Transportation Management Center
TRIO ISP
NHDOT Field Devices
511
511nh.com
Alerting and Advisory Systems
Transit Management Centers
Local Public Safety Centers
Bridge Operations Centers
Traveler
Personal Devices
Bridge Operations Center Field Devices
Vehicles
Homeland Security
FEMA
Toll Administration Center
Seabrook Station Alerting Systems