Emergency Management
Virtual Coordination Center for Multimodal Integrated Corridor Management (VCC)
The Seattle area is among the fastest growing economies in the United States, with increasing city densification and traffic. Half of all traffic congestion is due to incidents such as disabled vehicles, flooded roadways, trucks losing their loads, and more. For every minute a highway lane is blocked, 4 to 10 minutes of traffic congestion...
Integrated Corridor Management
In collaboration with the Mobility Innovation Center (MIC) and Challenge Seattle, CoSSaR is working to enhance the design and delivery of an enhanced integrated corridor management (ICM) system and related services for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) and the city of Seattle. In the larger scheme, these services will enhance the capabilities of...
Cascadia Rising, Information Sharing and Interoperability
Cascadia Rising was a multi-State effort involving agencies across federal, state, local, tribal, international and private sectors in a set of exercises centering around a 9.0 subduction zone earthquake and subsequent 100-foot tsunami. The main exercise, led by the Washington State Emergency Management Division, took place over four days (June 7, 2016 through June 10,...