Implementation of Florida Department f Transportation’s TIM In ‘10 Training Program for Incident Responders

Florida’s Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Program is a successful partnership between the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and a variety of public and private sector incident responders. These partners have championed a variety of TIM initiatives to improve responder and motorist safety, one key objective of the National Unified Goal (NUG) of the National Traffic Incident Management Coalition (NTIMC). Rising from Florida’s Open Roads Policy, the TIM in ‘10 training initiative was created to help response agencies better understand each other’s roles and responsibilities at a crash scene. The goal of TIM in ‘10 is to train every first responder in TIM Training for Responders by the end of 2010. Joint, accredited training plays an important role in the reduction of incident and roadway clearance times, two important TIM performance measures. When used in conjunction with Florida’s intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies and other NUG objectives and strategies, responders will experience improved safety and incident coordination.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Clark, Paul
  • Creel, Charles
  • Birenbaum, Ingrid
• Conference:
  • ITS America 20th Annual Meeting & Exposition
  • Location: Houston TX, United States
  • Date: 2010-5-3 to 2010-5-5
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; Maps; References;
• Pagination: 7p
• Monograph Title: ITS America 20th Annual Meeting & Exposition

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coordination; Emergency response time; Incident management; Intelligent transportation systems; Traffic crashes; Traffic incidents; Traffic safety; Training
• Uncontrolled Terms: Emergency responders
• Geographic Terms: Florida
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01342845
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 23 2011 9:07AM