City of Plant City Traffic Operations

Description: Represents Plant City Traffic Operations Department. City of Plant City Traffic Operations Department consists of four programs: Signals, Signs, Street Painting, and Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS).

Inventory Elements:

• City of Plant City CAV Field Equipment
• City of Plant City Field Equipment
• City of Plant City TMC

Projects:

• City of Plant City Controller Upgrade
• City of Plant City Emergency Vehicle Preemeption (EVP)
• FDOT District 7 I-4 FRAME
• Hillsborough County C2C Communications

Roles and Responsibilities:

City of Plant City Controller Upgrade Roles and Responsibilities
• Operate traffic signal systems on municipal-owned arterials.
• Provide emergency signal preemption for local fire vehicles.

City of Plant City Emergency Vehicle Preemeption (EVP) Roles and Responsibilities
• Coordinate emergency traffic signal control with the county EOC/warning points.
• Operate traffic signal systems on municipal-owned arterials.
• Provide emergency signal preemption for local fire vehicles.

FDOT District 7 I-4 FRAME Roles and Responsibilities
• 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 city 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 city roadway maintenance and construction operations, as well as local 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 city.

Hillsborough County C2C Communications Roles and Responsibilities
• Provide incident information to other traffic management and public safety agencies.
• Perform network surveillance for detection and verification of incidents, and send traffic/incident information and traffic images to local and county public safety agencies and EOCs.

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, such as DMS devices, on municipally owned roadways, and through local ISPs and Web sites.
• Provide maintenance resources in response to incidents on municipally 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 in the municipality with local public safety agencies.
• Perform network surveillance for detection and verification of incidents, 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 and local EOCs.
• Coordinate evacuation and reentry plans with the county EOC/warning points and local EOCs.
• 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 municipal DMS devices.
• Provide traffic information to travelers using municipal public information systems, 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 city 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 city roadway maintenance and construction operations, as well as local 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 city.

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.
• Coordinate traffic information with FDOT District 7, adjoining counties, and cities in Hillsborough County.
• Obtain traffic images and traffic flow data from Plant City CCTVs and field sensors, and maintain operational control of all field equipment.
• Operate traffic signal systems on municipal-owned arterials.
• Provide emergency signal preemption for local 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.