Kansas City Regional ITS Architecture

Incident Management Roles and Responsibilities

Stakeholder	Role and Responsibility
Counties and Cities	Respond to incident dispatch.
	Coordinates incident response with local emergency management agencies, public safety agencies and/or transportation agencies.
Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT)	Operate DMS and HAR for incident management.
	Coordinate incident response and road closures with local emergency management agencies, public safety agencies, and/or transportation agencies.
	Perform incident detection and verification through video surveillance.
	Provide incident information to local public safety agencies.
	Provide resources to support incident management when requested by emergency agencies.
Kansas Highway Patrol	Coordinate incident response with KDOT and local emergency management agencies, public safety agencies, and/or transportation agencies, including road closure.
	Dispatch Private Towing Companies contracted with the KHP and KTA for vehicles traveling along Kansas interstate highways that require towing.
	Provide motorists assistance service to travelers.
	Receive emergency calls for incidents within the jurisdiction area and dispatch state patrol vehicles responding to emergency calls.
	Routinely patrol major roadways including interstates, US highways, state highways and secondary county roads, and enforce motor vehicle laws.
KDOT / MoDOT	Provide incident information to local public safety agencies.
	Coordinate incident response and road closures with local emergency management agencies, public safety agencies, and/or transportation agencies.
	Dispatch motorist assistance service to travelers.
	Perform incident detection and verification through video surveillance.
	Provide resources to support incident management when requested by emergency agencies.
	Operate DMS and HAR for incident management.
KTA	Operate portable and permanent DMS (planned) to direct traffic for incident management along the corridor.
MARC	Perform incident detection and verification through video surveillance.
	Coordinates incident response with local emergency management agencies, public safety agencies and/or transportation agencies.
	Provide incident information to local public safety agencies.
	Respond to incident dispatch.
Media	Provide incident information to the traffic management and public safety agencies in the Kansas City area.
	Collect incident and disaster information from the traffic management and public safety agencies in the Kansas City area.
	Share the information it receives from the traffic management and public safety agencies in the Kansas City area with the public.
Missouri Department of Public Safety	Routinely patrol major roadways including interstates, US highways, state highways and secondary county roads, and enforce motor vehicle laws.
	Receive emergency calls for incidents within the jurisdiction area and dispatch state patrol vehicles responding to emergency calls.
	Provide motorists assistance service to travelers.
	Dispatch Private Towing Companies contracted with the MSHP for vehicles traveling along Missouri interstate highways that require towing.
	Coordinate incident response with MoDOT and local emergency management agencies, public safety agencies, and/or transportation agencies, including road closure.
MoDOT	Operate DMS and HAR for incident management.
	Provide resources to support incident management when requested by emergency agencies.
	Provide incident information to local public safety agencies.
	Perform incident detection and verification through video surveillance.
	Coordinate incident response and road closures with local emergency management agencies, public safety agencies, and/or transportation agencies.
Regional Transit Operators
	Report incident information to public safety agencies.
	Operate on-board security cameras, to remotely monitor the vehicles.