Innovative Interagency Partnerships - The Mississippi MsTraffic-MED-COM Project

The purpose of the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) MED-COM Partnership Project the author conceived and managed was to integrate the expanding travel information network resources of the Mississippi state-wide Intelligent Transportation System (known as MsTraffic) with a new state-wide medical emergency response system known as Mississippi MED-COM. Through interconnection of the traffic and medical response management systems, the project has helped to save lives by providing a permanent and useful service to the emergency response agencies, hospitals and first responders of Mississippi. The project has already proven to be useful in many emergency response situations through use of MsTraffic cameras to validate conditions in order to notify the appropriate number and type of responders and to also notify emergency medical facilities of probable patient transfers and their medical status. The author believes this project is a model as it proves that the two systems can be successfully integrated to increase transportation safety and mobility through new and dynamic partnerships linking the transportation and public safety communities.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS Japan

  Tokyo,   Japan 

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036

  ERTICO

  326 Avenue Louis
  Brussels,   Belgium  B-1050
• Authors:
  • Stokes, Michael
• Conference:
  • 17th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Busan , Korea, South
  • Date: 2010-10-25 to 2010-10-29
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 3p
• Monograph Title: 17th ITS World Congress, Busan, 2010: Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Disasters and emergency operations; Emergency communication systems; Emergency medical services; Institutional issues; Interagency relations; Partnerships
• Uncontrolled Terms: Institutional barriers
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Security and Emergencies; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01368336
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 25 2012 7:57AM