Best Practices in Traffic Incident Management

Overview

Traffic incident management (TIM) is a planned and coordinated program to detect and remove incidents and restore traffic capacity as safely and quickly as possible. This report describes task-specific and cross-cutting issues or challenges commonly encountered by TIM responders in the performance of their duties. It also describes novel and/or effective strategies for overcoming these issues and challenges (i.e., best practices).

Source Organization Location

Washington
,
DC

Organizational Capability Element

    Traveler Information
    Traffic Incident Management
    Emergency Transportation Operations
    Local government/MPO/RTPA cooperation
    Public safety agency collaboration

Content Type

Best Practice

Role in Organization

Senior Engineer
Principal Engineer
Manager / First Line Supervisor
Director / Program Manager
Maintenance Staff
Technician
Engineer
Operator
Senior Manager
Public Safety Officer
Associate Engineer
Media / PIO

Publishing Organization

FHWA

Maturity Level of Program

Monitoring (L4)
Deployment (L3)
Assessment (L1)
Development (L2)

Objective

Learning
How-To
Available Tools

Document Downloads

Prime Contractor
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Author
Jodi L. Carson
TOM Chapters
20.2
19.2
20.1
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Issue Date
Publication Number
FHWA-HOP-10-050