Florida Statewide and Regional ITS Architectures
The Wide-Area Alerts service for FDOT Districts Amber, Silver and Blue Alerts uses ITS driver and traveler information systems to alert the public in emergency situations such as child abductions, missing persons, or violent criminal searches. The alert includes information and instructions for transportation system operators and the traveling public, improving public safety and enlisting the public's help in some scenarios. When an emergency situation is reported and verified and the terms and conditions for system activation are satisfied, a designated agency broadcasts emergency information to traffic agencies, transit agencies, information service providers, toll operators, and others that operate ITS systems. The ITS systems, in turn, provide the alert information to transportation system operators and the traveling public using ITS technologies such as dynamic message signs, highway advisory radios, in-vehicle displays, transit displays, 511 traveler information systems, and traveler information websites.