St. Lucie County TMC Roles and Responsibilities

This area includes all the roles and responsibilities that have been identified for the St. Lucie County TMC project.

Service Packages

• TM01: Infrastructure-Based Traffic Surveillance (St. Lucie County Public Works Department)
• TM07: Regional Traffic Management (St. Lucie County)

Stakeholders

• St. Lucie County Public Works

Roles and Responsibilities

• Adjust signal timing patterns in response to incidents.
• Collect traffic data from the traffic signal system sensors.
• Coordinate emergency plans, incident responses, and resources with the county EOC/warning points.
• Coordinate evacuation and re-entry plans with the county EOC/warning point.
• Coordinate HRI signal adjustments.
• Coordinate incident response for incidents on or adjacent to county-owned roadways with public works departments, public safety agencies, and EOCs in surrounding counties and municipalities, including response for scheduled events.
• Coordinate maintenance resource response to incidents on county-owned roadways with county and local public safety agencies.
• Coordinate traffic management with agenices in St. Lucie County.
• Install and maintain CCTV cameras.
• Interconnect with City of Port St. Lucie and City of Fort Pierce traffic signal systems.
• Operate traffic signal systems on county-owned arterials, as well as some municipal arterials.
• Perform network surveillance for incident detection and verification, and send traffic/incident information and traffic images to local and county public safety agencies and EOCs.
• Provide incident information to other traffic management and public safety agencies.
• Provide incident information to travelers via traffic information devices on county-owned roadways (e.g., DMS and HAR equipment), and through local ISPs and Web sites.
• Provide maintenance and construction information to the traveling public through roadside equipment (e.g., DMS and HAR devices) and traveler information systems.
• Provide maintenance resources in response to incidents on county-operated arterials.
• Provide signal preemption for emergency vehicles.
• Provide signal priority for transit vehicles.
• Provide traffic and road network information to local transit agencies, including St. Lucie Community Transit.
• Provide traffic information to travelers using St. Lucie County DMS devices.
• Provide traffic information to travelers via the county public information system, private companies, Florida 511, and the media.
• Share traffic information with agenices in St. Lucie County.
• Use images from CCTV cameras for traffic management.



• City of Fort Pierce Engineering Department

Roles and Responsibilities

• Coordinate traffic management with agenices in St. Lucie County.
• Interconnect with City of Port St. Lucie and St. Lucie County traffic signal systems.
• Monitor City of Fort Pierce roadways using CCTV and traffic sensors.
• Operate traffic signal systems for arterials owned and operated by the City of Fort Pierce.
• Provide signal preemption for emergency vehicles.
• Provide signal priority for transit vehicles.
• Provide traffic information to travelers using municipal DMS devices.
• Share traffic information with agenices in St. Lucie County.



• City of Port St. Lucie Traffic Operations Division

Roles and Responsibilities

• Coordinate traffic management with agenices in St. Lucie County.
• Interconnect with St. Lucie County and City of Fort Pierce traffic signal systems.
• Monitor City of Port St. Lucie roadways using CCTV and traffic sensors.
• Operate traffic signal systems for arterials owned and operated by the City of Port St. Lucie.
• Provide signal preemption for emergency vehicles.
• Provide signal priority for transit vehicles.
• Provide traffic information to travelers using municipal DMS devices.
• Remotely control school zone flashers in school zones.
• Share traffic information with agenices in St. Lucie County.