Weekly Luncheon & Program

Weekly Luncheon & Program

Emergency Communications Center
introduced by Lion Paul Spaar

Doug Bell, a paramedic supervisor, will talk about the Combined Transportation, Emergency, and Communications Center, otherwise known as CTECC. CTECC brings several state, county, and municipal government agencies together under one roof so they can share command-and-control resources in the area. This unification is intended to strengthen the Travis County area's emergency communications and traffic management. It's quite an ambitious project from an organizational perspective.

The Austin, Texas, CTECC Operations Center facility features a 60-cube videowall.

CTECC is a partnership involving the City of Austin (911 dispatch, police, fire, EMS), Travis County (911 dispatch, sheriff, constable), the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (the local bus system), and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) for the freeway.