Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC)
Digital Alerting Program
The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) has chosen NEWCOM to implement the Delaware Valley Region Digital Alerting program, enhancing first responder vehicles with digital alerting capabilities. NEWCOM will collaborate with regional agencies to install the system and activate HAAS Alert Safety Cloud services.
DVRPC aims to equip 450 vehicles in the first year and continue the initiative for four years, with funding covering installation costs, subscription fees, and ongoing support services for previously installed vehicles.
DVRPC selected NEWCOM to implement the Delaware Valley Region Digital Alerting program.
Project Solution
This effort aims to create a regional program to deploy digital alerting technology in first responder vehicles. NEWCOM will collaborate with DVRPC to enhance relationships with partner agencies and provide data on the technology’s usage.
Digital alerting, or Responder-to-Vehicle (R2V) technology, alerts motorists of responders’ positions directly in their vehicles, increasing awareness of roadside hazards and encouraging compliance with Move Over, Slow Down laws to reduce serious incidents. The program will connect to over 100 agencies and equip 500+ response vehicles, along with PennDOT Freeway Service Patrol Vehicles.
If you have been selected for Phase 1 implementation, please fill out this form to schedule your agency’s install or request additional services from NEWCOM.
Digital alerting, also referred to as a Responder-to-vehicle (R2V) technology, allows responders and roadside workers to alert motorists of their position directly inside the approaching motorists’ vehicles, sometimes miles before the motorists see the flashing lights.
About DVRPC
Serving the Greater Philadelphia area since 1965, DVRPC works to foster regional collaboration in creating and maintaining a livable, sustainable, and economically competitive region covering our nine counties: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties in Pennsylvania, and Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Mercer counties in New Jersey. These nine counties together comprise over 3,800 square miles with land use that varies from the dense urban core of Center City Philadelphia to the open rural areas of the New Jersey Pinelands. DVRPC staff works with municipal, city, county, and state representatives and many other partners to improve transportation, promote smart growth, protect the environment, and build the economy.
DVRPC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the greater Philadelphia region. DVRPC sponsors and conducts studies, assists member planning agencies and provides a forum for interagency cooperation and public input into funding decisions. DVRPC was formed by an Interstate Compact through legislation passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1965, as reenacted and amended in 1967, and by the New Jersey Legislature in a series of conforming acts passed between 1966 and 1974, which vests DVRPC with sovereign immunity.
