IEEE
Incident Management Working Group
(1512®)
History of the Incident
Management Working Group
In a United States Government/ITS America Survey of Standards
Needs for an Intelligent Transportation System conducted in
1996, message sets for incident management were ranked sixth
out of forty-four that were identified. As such, these
message sets represent a major component of the Intelligent
Transportation Infrastructure. Due in part to the critical
nature of these elements, our initial
project plan was developed, through cooperation between
the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and and the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).
The focus of our
original Project Authorization Request (PAR) was to
research, compile, analyze, and consolidate information leading
to the publication of a standards message set for incident management.
The scope was initially limited to message sets associated with
dataflows from the Emergency Management Center (EMC) to the
Traffic Management Center (TMC) and Emergency Telephone System
(ETS).These data flows set the stage for the development of
ITS message sets for incident management. The New Standards
Committee (NESCOM) approved this PAR, (P1512), on December 9th,
1997.
Following the formation and various meetings of the working
group members and the sponsoring agencies, it became apparent
that the original Architecture reference model used in developing
the original PAR had undue limitations. Additionally, as work
progressed, the obvious benefits of certain common messages,
to be used by all emergency management centers, became increasingly
clear. As a result, a request
to expand the scope of the original PAR to provide a family
of PARs was submitted to the Standards Coordinating
Committee 32 (SCC 32) on October 27, 1998. The family
of standards was to consist of a base standard, three companion
volumes, and a data dictionary. . The SCC 32 subsequently
approved this request on December 10, 1998, and by the IEEE
Standards Board on March 18, 1999. The name, description,
and purpose of each of these element is identified below.
- 1512®-2000 - The PAR for the
base standard. This standard will provide
incident management message sets common to traffic management,
public safety, and hazardous materials incident response
activities.
- 1512.1-2003 - Volume
1. Deals with Traffic Management message
sets used in the course of highway incident management.
- 1512.2-2004 - Volume
2. Deals with Public Safety message
sets (e.g., Fire Dispatch, Police Dispatch, EMS, etc.) used
in the course of highway incident management.
- 1512.3-2002 - Volume
3. Deals with HAZMAT (Hazardous Materials
activities) message sets used in the course of highway incident
management.
- P1512.4 - Volume
4. Deals with message sets used by Entities external
to centers in the course of traffic incident management.
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