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Omaha – Council Bluffs. 2010 Traffic Forum. What is Traffic Incident Management?. Traffic Incident Management

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  1. Omaha – Council Bluffs 2010 Traffic Forum

  2. What is Traffic Incident Management? • Traffic Incident Management Refers to the coordinated, preplanned, procedures utilized by agencies charged with responding to traffic incidents, to rapidly and efficiently detect, respond to, and clear an incident. • Incident Response Procedures • Planned Incidents • Partially Planned Incidents • Unplanned Incidents It’s just having a plan

  3. Emergency Responders • Law Enforcement • Fire and Rescue • Emergency Communications • Centers • Emergency Medical Services (EMS) • MoDOT and KDOT • Public Works Departments • Towing and Recovery • Media • Information Service Providers • Coroners and Medical Examiners • Hazardous Material Specialists

  4. Emergency Responders • Law Enforcement • Fire and Rescue • Emergency Communications • Centers • Emergency Medical Services (EMS) • MoDOT and KDOT • Public Works Departments • Towing and Recovery • Media • Information Service Providers • Coroners and Medical Examiners • Hazardous Material Specialists

  5. National Traffic Incident Management Coalition • (NTIMC) • 19 transportation groups • http://timcoalition.org • NTIMC Strategic Plan: • Mission and Vision • Mission • Link public safety and transportation communities to define, standardize, and advance the state of traffic incident management practice • Vision Leading and supporting a national network of traffic incident management (TIM) programs that are consistently implemented

  6. Traffic Incident ManagementProgram Elements • Strategic Program Plans • ETO/TIM Operations & Response Plans • Partnership Agreements\Guidelines & Laws • Scene Management Guidelines, • Move Over, Steer It/Clear It, etc. • Services, Tools, & Systems • Patrols, Crash Reconstruction, • Traffic Management Teams

  7. Why Do We Need Traffic Incident Management? • Reduce Line of Duty Deaths and Injuries for Police, Fire, EMS, Transportation and Towing Personnel • Secondary Crashes Kill or Injure Hundreds • Highway Closure Creates “Community” • Congestion From Incidents Has Significant Economic and Liability Costs, and It Decreases Regional Air Quality

  8. Traffic Incident Management • National Traffic Incident Management • Coalition (NTIMC) • National Unified Goal (NUG) • Responder Safety • Safe, Quick Clearance • Prompt, Reliable, Interoperable Communications • 18 Specific Strategies to Achieve These Goals

  9. Traffic Incident Management • National Traffic Incident Management • Coalition (NTIMC) • National Unified Goal (NUG) • Responder Safety • Safe, Quick Clearance • Prompt, Reliable, Interoperable Communications • 18 Specific Strategies to Achieve These Goals • Ratified in 2007 • http://timcoalition.org

  10. TIM Network • Engage State, regional, local participants • Resource to implement NUG • Share best practices • Insight into potential policy development • Ongoing research projects • Review and Comment • Regular information provided to members • NTIMC activities and decisions • Early access to Coalition products and resources • Networking capabilities http://sites.google.com/site/timnetworksite/

  11. TIM Network • Three Working Groups • Practices and Procedures- • Multidisciplinary TIM practices and procedures • Communications and Training- • Identify, develop, and distribute coalition information to TIM practitioners • Research- • Review, identify, develop research problem statements, programs, and opportunities http://sites.google.com/site/timnetworksite/

  12. MUTCD AND WORKER VISIBILITY Best thing that we can do for our personnel • Changes to MUTCD • Worker Visibility Requirements • Everyone must participate in ICS

  13. MUTCD AND WORKER VISIBILITY Best thing that we can do for our personnel • Changes to MUTCD • Worker Visibility Requirements • Everyone must participate in ICS

  14. What’s Next? • Continue to develop TIM Programs • Recruit partners • Challenge william.james@modot.mo.gov

  15. Questions? Rusty James, Incident Management Coordinator 600 NE Colbern Road Lee’s Summit, Missouri 64086 Phone: 816-347-2205 E-mail: william.james@modot.mo.gov

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