Summit County Reverse Alert Emergency Notification System

Status: Existing

Description

System that provides real–time alert messages to residents throughout Summit County. Alerts can include unexpected road closures, missing persons, and evacuation of buildings or neighborhoods, and can be sent via email, devices for the hard of hearing and landline/mobile phones.

Stakeholders

StakeholderRoleRole Status
Summit County Division of Public SafetyOwnsExisting

Physical Objects

Transportation Information Center
Traveler Information Voice System

Functional Objects

Functional ObjectDescriptionUser Defined
TIC Data Collection'TIC Data Collection' collects transportation–related data from other centers, performs data quality checks on the collected data and then consolidates, verifies, and refines the data and makes it available in a consistent format to applications that support operational data sharing between centers and deliver traveler information to end–users. A broad range of data is collected including traffic and road conditions, transit data, emergency information and advisories, weather data, special event information, traveler services, parking, multimodal data, and toll/pricing data. It also shares data with other transportation information centers.False
TIC Emergency Traveler Information'TIC Emergency Traveler Information' provides emergency information to the public, including wide–area alerts and evacuation information. It provides emergency alerts, information on evacuation zones and evacuation requirements, evacuation destinations and shelter information, available transportation modes, and traffic and road conditions at the origin, destination, and along the evacuation routes. In addition to general evacuation information, personalized information including tailored evacuation routes, service information, and estimated travel times is also provided based on traveler specified origin, destination, and route parameters. Updated information is provided throughout the evacuation and subsequent reentry as status changes and plans are adapted.False
TIC Operations Data Collection'TIC Operations Data Collection' collects and stores information that is collected about the transportation information service including data on the number of clients serviced and the services that were provided. This data can be used directly by operations personnel or it can be made available to other data users and archives in the region.False

Interfaces To

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AMATS Data Archive
Personal Information Device
Summit County Emergency Operations Center