PS10-Wide-Area Alert

Status

Existing

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.

Diagram

PS10-Wide-Area Alert

Includes Elements

Sparks TMC
Sparks Field Equipment
Personal Communication Devices
NDOT District 3 Road Operations Center
NDOT District 2 Field Equipment
Reno TMC
Reno Field Equipment
Northern Nevada Regional Road Operations Center (NNROC)
Washoe County TMC
Washoe County Field Equipment
Private Traveler Information Service Providers
Caltrans TMCs
NDOT District 2 Road Operations Center
Utah TMC
RTC FAST TMC (Southern Nevada)
Regional Emergency Operations Center (REOC) Washoe County
NDOT NDEX
NDOT District 1 Road Operations Center