TIMS EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
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TIMS EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
What does SHRP2 stand for?
Strategic Highway Research Program 2
How many areas of focus does SHRP 2 have? what are they?
4 areas of focus: 1. Safety 2. Renewal 3. Reliability 4. Capacity National Unified
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TIMS EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
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What does SHRP2 stand for?
Strategic Highway Research Program 2
How many areas of focus does SHRP 2 have? what are they?
4 areas of focus: 1. Safety 2. Renewal 3. Reliability 4. Capacity National Unified
The TIM training program was designed to?
Establish the foundation for and to promote consistent training of all responders to
achieve the three objectives of the TIM goal
What are the three objectives of the TIM National Unified Goal (NUG)?
1. Responder Safety 2. Safe, Quick Clearance 3. Prompt, Reliable, Interoperable
Communications
What are D Drivers?
Drunk Drugged Drowsy Distracted Dumb
Who suffers the most deaths by being struck each year?
Tow truck drivers (Average 60)
On average, how many police officers die by being struck by traffic each year?
Average of 12 per year over 24 years
Crashes that occur within the incident scene or within the queue or backup,
including the opposite direction, resulting from an original incident.
Secondary crashes
Effective TIM reduces and does what?
Reduces the duration and impacts of traffic incidents -Improves the safety of motorists,
crash victims, and emergency responders.
Goods that have been imported or exported illegally into the dormitory, and are
not allowed? (i.e. testosterone supplements)
Contraband
Goal of TIM is to?
, Shorten the time duration between when the incident occurs, and when traffic resumes
as normal.
Three standards that TIM performance measures?
1. Roadway clearance time 2. Incident clearance time 3. Number of secondary crashes
The practice of rapidly, safely, and aggressively removing temporary
obstructions from the roadway?
Safe, quick clearance
What does safe, quick clearance help to do?
1. Minimizing exposure to adjacent passing traffic 2. Reduce the probability of
secondary crashes 3. Relieve overall congestion and delay.
Nationally, there are three types of laws that facilitate TIM, what are they?
1. Move Over Laws 2. Driver Removal Laws 3. Authority Removal Laws
Law that provides authority (and immunity from liability in general) for designated
public agencies to remove vehicles and/or spilled cargo from the roadway to
restore traffic flow.
Authority Removal Laws
Law that require motorists involved in minor crashes (where there are no serious
injuries and the vehicle can be driven) to move their vehicles out of the travel
lanes to the shoulder or other safe area?
Driver Removal Laws
Law that requires drivers approaching a scene where emergency responders are
present to either change lanes when possible and/or reduce vehicle speed?
Move Over Laws
National standard that was first published in 1935, and it has been maintained by
FHWA since 1971?
MUTCD - Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
Purpose of MUTCD
Promotes the uniformity of traffic control signs, signals, and markings from state to
state.
Lane Designation Terminology?
Plain English
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