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Traffic Incident Management (TIM)- 69 Questions with Solutions 2024
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Traffic Incident Management (TIM)- 69Questions with Solutions 2024
3 Main Goals for TIM National Unified Goal (NUG) - -Responder Safety
Safe, quick clearance
Prompt, reliable, Interoperable communication
-Traffic Incident - -Emergency road user occurrence, a natural disaster, or
other unplanned event that affects or impeded the normal flow of traffic
-"D" Drivers are killing us - -Drunk
Drugged
Drowsy
Distracted
Dangerous
-Secondary Crashes - -Crashes that occur within the incident scene or
within the queue or backup, including the opposite direction, resulting from
an original incident
-TIM Consists of a - -planned and coordinated multidisciplinary process to
detect, respond to, and clear traffic incidents so that traffic flow may be
restored as safely and quickly as possible
-Effective TIM - --Improves the safety of emergency responders, crash
victims and motorists
-reduces the duration and impacts of traffic incidents
-Safe, Quick Clearance - -Practice of rapidly, safely, and aggressively
removing temporary obstructions from the roadway
-Move Over Laws - -Requires drivers approaching a scene where emergency
responders are present to either change lanes when possible and/or reduce
vehicle speed.
-Driver Removal Laws - -Also referred to as:
-Fender Bender
-Move it
-Steer it, Clear it
-Purpose for driver removal laws - -requires motorists involved in minor
crashes (where there are no serious injuries and the vehicle can be driven) to
more their vehicles out of the travel lanes to the shoulder or other safe area
, -Authority Removal Laws NH RSA 154:7b - -Provide authority (and immunity
from liability in general) for designated public agencies to remove vehicles
and/or spoiled cargo from the roadway to restore traffic flow
-serious injury or fatality does not always percale removal
-Often contain a Hold Harmless clause
-Implemented in a number of states
-Manual on Uniform Traffic Control (MUTCD) - --federal standard for all
traffic control nationwide
-covers all workers on all streets, roadways, or highways
-Downstream - -Departing traffic - moving away
-Upstream - -Approaching traffic - moving to scene
-First step of the TIM process is - -Detection
-discovery of an incident
-incident detection can be a call from the parties involved in the incident or a
call from a passing motorist
-incident may also be detected by responders who happen upon them
-Telecommunicatiors - --Often the first to be alerted to an incident and are
responsible for proving a basic assessment of the situation
-dispatching an appropriate response based on their knowledge of available
resources
-Verifcation involves collecting sufficient information on the nature of the
incident including identifying... - --type and severity of incident
-exact physical location
-number of vehicle involved
-lanes affected
-injuries, entrapment
-Notification and Verification - -Often occur concurrently
-Monitor traffic conditions using - --closed-circuit television (CCT) cameras
-Roadway detectors and congestion maps
-Public safety contacts via phone and/or Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD)
links
-Real-time traveler information using - --phone systems and websites
-social media platforms, such as Twitter
-Changeable message signs (CMS)
-Highway advisory radio (HAR)
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