Traffic Incident Response Practices in Europe: Results of an American Scan Trip

This paper describes how, in April 2005, a team of twelve incident response specialists from the United States visited four European countries in order to assess and evaluate various practices for responding to incidents. During this trip, they heard numerous presentations about incident response practices in all four countries from a wide variety of perspectives, including road authorities, fire departments, police agencies, medical services, automobile clubs, recovery providers, and other groups. The information obtained during the trip identified several areas where practices in the United States have the potential to be improved. This paper provides a preliminary description of the findings and offers some preliminary recommendations of the team based on team discussion at the end of the trip, but prior to the preparation of the official report. The preliminary findings and recommendations will be reviewed and revised during the summer and early fall 2005, and will be published in a report late in the year.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 

  ARRB

  Melbourne, Victoria  Australia 
• Authors:
  • Hawkins Jr, H Gene
  • Brewster, Rebecca M
  • Conrad, John
  • Corbin, John
  • Devries, Henry
  • Helman, David
  • Jones, Greg
  • McGinnis, Kevin
  • Moore, Ron
  • Olson, Mark
  • Tibbits, Larry
  • Zezeski, Mike
• Conference:
  • ITE 2005 Annual Meeting and Exhibit Compendium of Technical Papers
  • Location: Melbourne , Australia
  • Date: 2005-8-7 to 2005-8-10
• Publication Date: 2005

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: CD-ROM; Tables;
• Pagination: 11p
• Monograph Title: ITE 2005 Annual Meeting and Exhibit Compendium of Technical Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Emergency response time; Fire departments; Highway departments; Incident detection; Medical services; Police departments; Recommendations; Tow trucks; Traffic incidents
• Geographic Terms: Europe; United States
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01006795
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1933452080
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 3 2005 8:13AM