Office of Operations
21st Century Operations Using 21st Century Technologies

Long Description: Implementation Activities Checklist - Step 1

Step 1. Develop an Implementation Plan

Assessment: Assignments, roles, and responsibilities of traffic management team personnel

If Assessments apply:

  • Indicate traffic management team organization and agency functional Responsibilities
  • Specify command post (CP) operation
  • Detail location- and time-specific tasks for traffic management team supervisors and field personnel

Tips/Examples:

  • Agency duties, responsibilities and jurisdiction
  • Identification of highest-ranking agency representative on the day-of- event in addition to mid-level managers
  • Chain of command
  • Agencies staffing command post
  • CP equipment delivery/set-up times
  • Command post access procedures
  • CP parking / helicopter landing areas
  • Agency personnel report date and time
  • Schedule and route of roving service patrols
  • Protocol and personnel assignments for maintaining unobstructed emergency access routes
  • Task instructions including traffic and pedestrian flow restrictions and permitted movements
  • Location and time (close/reopen) of planned full/partial road closures
  • Provision of step-by-step directions
  • Explanation, supplemented with graphics, of special event parking area permits and event passes

Assessment: Scenario-based, operations game plan at the management-level

If Assessments apply:

  • Develop operations timeline
  • Detail operations management approach
  • Specify equipment and infrastructure deployment plan and management details

Tips/Examples:

  • Command post location and hours
  • Personnel shifts by task/function
  • Time when egress plan goes into effect
  • Parking area and gate open/close times
  • Location/time of road closures/openings
  • Event schedule
  • Times of sunrise and sunset
  • Scenario-based criteria for implementing traffic management plan components
  • Operations details for sequential time segments on the day-of-event
  • Contingency plans and associated changes in resource deployments
  • Procedure for revising the traffic management plan on the day-of- event
  • Protocol for terminating traffic and parking management detail
  • Pre-event equipment check
  • Equipment locations and quantities
  • Equipment delivery, installation, and removal schedule
  • Schedule and location (zone) of equipment maintenance crews
  • Equipment operating instructions
  • Temporary static sign locations/content
  • Planned traveler information message sets
  • Identification of personnel responsible for monitoring and programming traveler information devices
  • Protocol for implementing different traffic signal timing plans as-needed
  • Protocol and personnel charged with monitoring traffic surveillance equipment
  • Available maintenance personnel and equipment resources

Assessment: Interagency communications strategy

If Assessments apply:

  • Specify agency and inter-agency contact information
  • Establish communications protocol

Tips/Examples:

  • Contact information for individual traffic management team members and agencies involved in contingency plan deployment
  • Radio call-signs of traffic management team personnel
  • Guidelines and restrictions regarding use of various radio channels or talk groups

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