5.1.8: Manage Wide Area Alerts and Advisories

This process shall act on requests from the system operator, the Alerting and Advisory Systems, or the Manage Emergency Response process to broadcast wide area alerts and advisories for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property where information must be immediately provided to the traveling public. The wide area alerts shall be sent to agencies that work in the field or have the ability to disseminate information to the public (e.g., information service providers, maintenance and construction management centers, toll administration facilities, traffic management centers, other emergency management centers, and transit management centers). This process shall receive notifications from those agencies that they have received the information and the status of how they are disseminating the alerts/advisories. This process shall provide alerts and advisories to other processes within Manage Emergencies for response, threat analysis, and incident detection. This process shall notify the system operator concerning the status of the issued alerts and advisories. This process will also tailor the information to be distributed to traveler information systems.

This process is associated with the Emergency Management Center physical object.

This process is associated with the following functional objects:

This process is associated with the following data flows: