Hillsborough County PWD

Description: Represents the Hillsborough County Department of Public Works.

Inventory Elements:

• Hillsborough County CAV Field Equipment
• Hillsborough County Field Equipment
• Hillsborough County Maintenance and Construction Management System
• Hillsborough County Traffic Management Center

Projects:

• FDOT District 7 I-4 FRAME
• HART Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Expansion
• Hillsborough County ATMS Program Expansion
• Hillsborough County C2C Communications
• Hillsborough County Connected Vehicle (CV) Initiative with HART, and Fire and Rescue
• Hillsborough County MPO Data and Analytics Platform
• Hillsborough County Smart Work Zone System

Roles and Responsibilities:

FDOT District 7 I-4 FRAME Roles and Responsibilities
• Adjust signal-timing patterns in response to incidents.
• Provide maintenance and construction information to regional traffic operations, and to the traveling public using portable DMS devices.
• Coordinate emergency plans, incident responses, and resources with the county EOC/warning points.
• Coordinate emergency traffic signal control 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 the FDOT statewide C2C information network.
• Coordinate incident response for incidents on or adjacent to county-owned roadways with PWDs, public safety agencies, and EOCs in surrounding counties and municipalities, including scheduled event responses.
• Coordinate maintenance and construction activities with other county and city maintenance operations and FDOT District 7 maintenance operations.
• Coordinate maintenance or construction requests from RTMCs.
• Coordinate maintenance resources for incidents with FDOT District 7 maintenance and construction operations, and other county and city maintenance and construction departments.
• Receive a request for maintenance resources for incident response from county fire/EMS agencies, the county sheriff, local police/fire/EMS agencies, the FHP, 911 emergency call centers, and county EOCs.
• Receive a request for maintenance resources for incident response from regional county traffic management systems.
• Coordinate traffic information with FDOT District 7, adjoining counties, and cities in Hillsborough County.
• Receive AVL information from county PWD vehicles.
• Receive road weather information from field equipment.
• Distribute maintenance and construction work plan information and asset restrictions to regional traffic agencies, regional transit providers, regional emergency services, the media, private rail operations, and multimodal service providers.
• Maintenance vehicles provide automated maintenance status information to the county roadway maintenance and construction operations, as well as county equipment repair facilities.
• Manage work zones for all county maintenance and construction activities, and monitor work zone safety with county field equipment and vehicles.
• Operate traffic signal systems on county-owned arterials.
• Perform maintenance of ITS field equipment owned by the county.
• Provide emergency signal preemption for local and county fire vehicles.

HART BRT Expansion Roles and Responsibilities
• Operate traffic signal systems on county-owned arterials.
• Provide emergency signal preemption for local and county fire vehicles.

Hillsborough County ATMS Program Expansion Roles and Responsibilities
• Adjust signal-timing patterns in response to incidents.
• Provide incident information to travelers using traffic information devices on county-owned roadways, such as DMS devices and HAR broadcasts, and through local ISPs and Web sites.
• Provide traffic information to travelers using county-owned DMS devices.
• Provide transit signal priority with roadside devices for Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (HART) Authority transit vehicles.
• Coordinate traffic information and traffic control with the City of Tampa PWD and Pinellas County.
• Coordinate traffic information with FDOT District 7, adjoining counties, and cities in Hillsborough County.
• Obtain traffic images and traffic flow data from Citrus and Hillsborough County CCTVs and field sensors, and maintain operational control of all field equipment.
• Operate traffic signal systems on county-owned arterials.
• Perform maintenance of ITS field equipment owned by the county.
• 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 emergency signal preemption for local and county fire vehicles.

Hillsborough County C2C Communications Roles and Responsibilities
• Provide incident information to other traffic management and public safety agencies.
• Coordinate traffic information with FDOT District 7, adjoining counties, and cities in Hillsborough County.

Hillsborough County Connected Vehicle (CV) Initiative with HART, and Fire and Rescue Roles and Responsibilities
• Adjust signal-timing patterns in response to incidents.
• Coordinate emergency traffic signal control with the county EOC/warning points.
• Coordinate incident response for incidents on or adjacent to county-owned roadways with PWDs, public safety agencies, and EOCs in surrounding counties and municipalities, including scheduled event responses.
• Operate traffic network safely and efficiently with utililization of Connected Vehilcle technologies.
• Provide transit signal priority with roadside devices for Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (HART) Authority transit vehicles.
• Operate traffic signal systems on county-owned arterials.
• Provide emergency signal preemption for local and county fire vehicles.

Hillsborough County MPO Data and Analytics Platform Roles and Responsibilities
• Collect and archive multimodal data from multimodal transportation service providers.

Hillsborough County Smart Work Zone System Roles and Responsibilities
• Provide maintenance and construction information to regional traffic operations, and to the traveling public using portable DMS devices.
• Manage work zones for all county maintenance and construction activities, and monitor work zone safety with county field equipment and vehicles.

Incident Management (Traffic and Maintenance) for West Central Florida Regional ITS Architecture - FDOT District 7
• Adjust signal-timing patterns in response to incidents.
• Provide incident information to other traffic management and public safety agencies.
• Provide incident information to travelers using traffic information devices on county-owned roadways, such as DMS devices and HAR broadcasts, and through local ISPs and Web sites.
• Provide maintenance resources in response to incidents on county-operated arterials.
• Coordinate incident response for incidents on or adjacent to county-owned roadways with PWDs, public safety agencies, and EOCs in surrounding counties and municipalities, including scheduled event responses.
• Coordinate maintenance resource response to incidents on county-owned roadways with county and local public safety agencies.
• 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.

Information Dissemination for West Central Florida Regional ITS Architecture - FDOT District 7
• 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 and road network information to local transit agencies.
• Provide traffic information in a coordination effort to the FDOT statewide C2C information network.
• Provide traffic information to travelers using county-owned DMS devices.
• Provide traffic information to travelers using the county public information system, private companies, FL511, and the media.
• Receive AMBER Alerts and other wide area alert information from the county EOC/warning points.

Maintenance and Construction for West Central Florida Regional ITS Architecture - FDOT District 7
• Provide maintenance and construction information to regional traffic operations, and to the traveling public using portable DMS devices.
• Coordinate maintenance and construction activities with other county and city maintenance operations and FDOT District 7 maintenance operations.
• Coordinate maintenance or construction requests from RTMCs.
• Coordinate maintenance resources for incidents with FDOT District 7 maintenance and construction operations, and other county and city maintenance and construction departments.
• Receive a request for maintenance resources for incident response from county fire/EMS agencies, the county sheriff, local police/fire/EMS agencies, the FHP, 911 emergency call centers, and county EOCs.
• Receive a request for maintenance resources for incident response from regional county traffic management systems.
• Receive AVL information from county PWD vehicles.
• Receive road weather information from field equipment.
• Distribute maintenance and construction work plan information and asset restrictions to regional traffic agencies, regional transit providers, regional emergency services, the media, private rail operations, and multimodal service providers.
• Maintenance vehicles provide automated maintenance status information to the county roadway maintenance and construction operations, as well as county equipment repair facilities.
• Manage work zones for all county maintenance and construction activities, and monitor work zone safety with county field equipment and vehicles.
• Perform maintenance of ITS field equipment owned by the county.

Traffic Signal Control for West Central Florida Regional ITS Architecture - FDOT District 7
• Provide interconnection between railroad equipment and traffic signal systems to update signal timing when HRIs are blocked by trains.
• Coordinate emergency traffic signal control with the county EOC/warning points.
• Provide parking demand information to private/public parking facilities to determine parking capacity and traffic implications at facilities.
• Provide transit signal priority with roadside devices for Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (HART) Authority transit vehicles.
• Coordinate traffic information and traffic control with the City of Tampa PWD and Pinellas County.
• Coordinate traffic information with FDOT District 7, adjoining counties, and cities in Hillsborough County.
• Obtain traffic images and traffic flow data from Citrus and Hillsborough County CCTVs and field sensors, and maintain operational control of all field equipment.
• Operate traffic signal systems on county-owned arterials.
• Provide emergency signal preemption for local and county fire vehicles.

Traveler Information for West Central Florida Regional ITS Architecture - FDOT District 7
• Collect traffic and incident information, and provide it to the media and private travelers.
• Coordinate and share traveler information with all other traveler information providers in the region.
• Provide maintenance and construction information to the traveling public using roadside equipment, such as DMS devices and HAR broadcasts, and traveler information systems.