Overview
sTraffic Incident Management(TIM) Program Details
2017 will be remembered as a year of “Firsts” for the Florida’s Turnpike’s Incident Management program and Team. It began in September when Hurricane Irma became the first major hurricane (category 3 or higher) to make landfall in South Florida since Hurricane Wilma in 2005. The mass evacuation that Irma provoked also triggered the first activation of the Turnpike’s Specialty Towing & Roadside Repair Hurricane support plan. The Turnpike’s STARR vendors rolled out more than 40 wreckers and support vehicles to service crashes, incidents or break-downs within the evacuating traffic. With the single goal of keeping Turnpike traffic lanes flowing, more than 3,000 motorist assists were provided by the STARR wreckers and the Turnpike’s Road Ranger program in approximately 10 days of pre- and post-storm service. Total RISC activations for the 2017 calendar year reached a program record of 128 RISC activations; the first and only year with more than 100 activations since 2007. October was the first month that the Turnpike’s Rapid Incident Clearance (RISC) program reached 20 activations.
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