Unifying Incident Response

This article describes a new multidisciplinary initiative called the National Unified Goal for Traffic Incident Management (NUG). The NUG was created by a coalition of 19 organizations representing emergency medial services, emergency communications personnel, fire and rescue services, law enforcement, transportation workers, towing and recovery operators and public information specialists. The NUG constitutes a national policy with 3 major goals: responder safety; safe, quick clearance of incidents; and prompt, reliable and interoperable communications. Strategies have been developed for meeting each of these goals. The coalition that developed the NUG encourages state and local transportation and public safety agencies to adopt this unified policy because it has the potential to dramatically improve the way traffic incidents are managed on U.S. roadways.

• Record URL:
  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/07sep/04.cfm
• Availability:
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• Authors:
  • Corbin, John
  • Vasconez, Kimberly C
  • Helman, David
• Publication Date: 2007-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: pp 23-29
• Serial:
  • Public Roads
  • Volume: 71
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
  • ISSN: 0033-3735
  • Serial URL: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coalitions; Communications; Emergency management; Highway safety; Incident management; Multidisciplinary teams; Policy; Policy making; Strategic planning; Traffic incidents; Traffic safety
• Identifier Terms: National Unified Goal for Traffic Incident Management
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01084483
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 28 2008 8:08AM