# Presentation: 927675

## Presentation to the Wireless Innovations in Communications Initiative Committee

David Helman
Federal Highway Adminstration 
U. S. Department of Transportation
August 8, 2000

**David Helman**
**Federal Highway Adminstration **
**U. S. Department of Transportation**
**August 8, 2000**

## ITS Public Safety Includes . . .

**ITS Public Safety Includes . . .**

- Law Enforcement
- Emergency Medical Services
- Fire/HAZMAT
- Emergency Communications
- Traffic Management

## ITS Public Safety Program

**Rationale**
- Public safety underpins highway operations
- Transportation underpins public safety services
- An ITS core capability is interoperable data communications
-  **Mission**
- Increase transportation safety through public safety partnerships

## ITS Public Safety Program

**Scope**
- Full spectrum of transportation-related incidents -- from disabled motor vehicles to large scale natural disasters.
**Approach**
- Bring public safety stakeholders into the ITS Program
- Demonstrate interoperable procedures and technologies for public safety and transportation operations.

## ITS Public Safety Integration

- Law
- Enforcement

- Fire & Rescue

- Transportation Management

- EMS

**ITS Public Safety Integration**

***Common***
***Integrated ***
***Information***

**Notes:**
The New Incident Event (NIE) message establishes that an event has happened, it’s real, gives it a unique identifier (ID), and provides the available information about it.
The Incident Description (IDX) message is intended to be “the workhorse message” for Incident Management. It will typically be the most used message in IM events.
The”Internet Cloud” depicts one way of implementing an e-TTop exercise, i.e., via exchanging exercise messages between the participants over the internet. There are other  ways of conducting an exercise, e.g., via faxes or at and on an actual tabletop (though, calling the latter an “e-TTop exercise” seems funny).
In the messages that follow below, bolded entries indicate changes from  previous messages.

## Anticipated Benefits

- Lives saved and injuries mitigated through faster response and better communications
- More efficient deployment of public safety personnel and equipment
- Reduced traffic congestion and hazards stemming from incidents and emergencies

## ITS-Related Core Capabilities and Technologies

**Incident identification, notification, and location**
- Wireless E 9-1-1; commercial Mayday services; automatic collision notification (ACN); ITS sensors
**Response decisions**
- Interoperable data networks; traffic, weather, and vehicle location; decision support tools
**Response actions**
- Interoperable communications; mobile data networks and computers; specialized databases and knowledge sources; in-vehicle route guidance systems; traffic mgmt systems; data collection and reporting tools.

**Notes:**
Institutional Issues
Incident identification, etc.
Barriers to widespread implementation of PSAP infrastructure and standards to receive and manage notification and location data.
Institutional agreements and standards for commercial Mayday interaction with PSAPs.
Need for widespread implementation of vehicle-based emergency communication equipment (e.g. E 9-1-1 cell service; ACN; standard in-vehicle equipment/interface for E 9-1-1)
Response decisions	
Regional plan for incident response and management in place?
Generally incompatible computer-aided dispatach (CAD) systems
Lack of voice interoperability, and general inefficiency of voice communications when interoperable
Enough traffic sensors in place to provide regional ATIS information.  (Note: cell phone probes could be a technical solution to this issue.)
Response actions	
Few mobile data networks in use by public safety agencies.
No (current) real interoperable data networks for public safety.	
Need for multi-agency agreements on common data messages or operational procedures.
Need for interoperable local area voice and data communication infrastructure.
Need for market penetration of ATIS for traffic info, routing guidance, and traffic mgmt actions by traffic authorities
Availability of low cost “recording” equipment (e.g. low cost version of Total Station capabilities)
Corresponding training of accident investigators (e.g. police) to use tools effectively.
Corresponding policies to ensure efficient data collection while minimizing traffic delays.	

## Field Operational Tests

**Field Operational Tests**

## Next Four Years

- FY00
- Outreach; articulation of vision; consensus
- FY01
- R&D; field tests
- FY02
- R&D; field tests
- FY03
- Evaluation and promotion

**Notes:**
Finite horizon
Program completion coincides with surface transportation (i.e, TEA-21) legislative cycle
Key expected outcomes:
Portfolio of model deployments with documented benefits
Enlightened set of core partners and stakeholders
Knowledge sharing framework for public safety

## FY 00 Activities

- Partnership development with DOJ and FEMA
- National Mayday Readiness Initiative
- ITS Public Safety Steering Group
- National Conference on ITS and Public Safety
- Broad outreach planning
- Field operational test planning