City of Ocala

Description: Represents the municipal agencies and departments of the City of Ocala.

Stakeholder Groups Associated With:

• Counties and Cities
• SUNTRAN

Inventory Elements:

• City of Ocala Field Equipment
• City of Ocala TMC

Projects:

• City of Ocala CCTV Expansion
• City of Ocala Integration
• FDOT Active Arterial Management System (City of Ocala)
• FDOT District 5 I-75 FRAME Ocala
• Ocala and Marion County ATMS Deployment

Roles and Responsibilities:

Incident Management (Traffic and Maintenance)
• Perform network monitoring for detection and verification of incidents on city streets, and send traffic/incident information and traffic images to county fire/EMS/sheriff agencies, the FHP, the county EOC, and local fire/EMS/police agencies.
• Provide incident information to travelers using traffic information devices on city streets, and through local ISPs, Web sites, and the local media.
• Coordinate maintenance resources for incident response with county and city maintenance and construction systems.
• Receive incident information, incident response status, and resource requests from the county EOC/warning points.

Information Dissemination
• Coordinate emergency plans, incident responses, and resources with the county EOC/warning points.
• Coordinate evacuation and reentry plans with the county EOC/warning points.
• Provide traffic information in a coordination effort to Florida 511
• Provide traffic information to travelers using City of Ocala DMS devices.
• Provide traffic information to travelers using private companies; county and city public information systems; and the media.
• Receive AMBER Alerts and other wide area alert information from FDLE.

Traffic Signal Control
• Provide emergency signal preemption for county and local fire/EMS agencies.
• Coordinate emergency traffic signal control with the county EOC/warning points.
• Coordinate HRI signal adjustments, and provide track status information (e.g., blockage) to rail operators and local traffic operations.
• Provide parking demand information to private/public parking facilities to determine parking capacity and traffic implications at the facility.
• Obtain traffic images and traffic flow data from CCTVs and field sensors, and maintain operational control of its own field equipment.
• Operate traffic signal systems, including CCTVs, signals, and sensors, for the City of Ocala.