IIMS, A MULTI-AGENCY SYSTEM FOR COORDINATING INCIDENT RESPONSES - A PHASE 2 UPDATE AND INITIAL TEST RESULTS

This paper summarizes experience from the initial deployment of the Integrated Incident Management System (IIMS), discusses improvements incorporated in the latest version of the IIMS, and describes enhancements being made as part of the ongoing Phase 2 development effort. IIMS is a large multi-agency system for coordinating incident and emergency responses. Sponsored by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) and the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT), and developed by Veridian, IIMS is currently undergoing operational testing by the New York City Police Department (NYPD), New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT), and NYSDOT. The IIMS field operational test will expand in the summer and fall of 2002 by increasing the deployment for existing agencies and adding New York City Department of Sanitation (NYC-DOS) and Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP). Several other New York City agencies are also supporting the test and will be involved in operational testing later in Phase 2. These agencies include the NYC Fire/EMS Department (FDNY/EMS), Metropolitan Transit (MTA-NYCT), and the Office of Emergency Management (NYC-OEM). IIMS centers and mobile units are linked with local area, wide area, and wireless networks. By sharing data across centers in near real-time and providing a usable and effective user interface IIMS provides effective tools for managing incidents and emergencies across all agencies involved from initial response to final cleanup. IIMS, as currently deployed, transmits critical messages including visual images of incidents between mobile units at the scene and a network of inter-connected communications centers. IIMS was developed using open communications standards and builds on the foundation provided by the National ITS Architecture. It is currently being expanded to add functionality and serve a wider range of agencies. IIMS is being developed to conform to the IEEE-1512 Standard for Common Incident Management Message Sets for use by Incident Management Centers. IIMS provides critical emergency management links between NYC / NYS agencies at a time when new homeland security concerns demands inter-agency solutions. Several incidents are managed using IIMS each day with the current deployment. This will increase as the system is expanded and deployed more widely. An example incident is described in this paper.

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• Authors:
  • Funke, D
  • Ort, J
  • Thielman, C
  • Mark, E
• Conference:
  • 9th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: Chicago, Illinois
  • Date: 2002-10-14 to 2002-10-17
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 12p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Electromagnetic properties; Emergency management; Emergency response time; Fire departments; Incident detection; Integrated systems; Management information systems; Mobile communication systems; Multi-agent systems; Operations
• Geographic Terms: New York Metropolitan Area
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00943624
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 26 2003 12:00AM