Overview
The intent of this primer is to inform and guide TIM professionals and transportation planners to initiate and develop collaborative relationships and advance TIM programs through the metropolitan planning process. The primer aims to inspire planners and TIM professionals to create transportation plans and programs that support regional TIM programs through TIM-focused objectives, performance measures, and TIM strategies and projects. The ultimate goal of this primer is to strengthen, support, and elevate regional TIM programs as a crucial, lower-cost strategy for reliability, safety, environmental improvements, and mobility. The primary audiences for this primer are transportation planners, TIM program leaders, and managers and supervisors involved in TIM operations from organizations such as law enforcement, State and local departments of transportation, fire and rescue, emergency medical services (EMS), public safety communications, emergency management, towing and recovery, hazardous materials response teams/contractors, medical examiners/coroners, and transit providers.