ROUTE DIVERSION PLANS AND FREEWAY INCIDENT MANAGEMENT TEAMS

It is essential that advanced planning for incident management take place. Detour plans need to be developed, teams need to be organized, equipment assembled, and procedures established. These all need to be in place in order to respond quickly and effectively. Virtually every segment of the freeway and street system should be closely analyzed to determine how traffic will be diverted, and to which surface streets it will be detoured. Working together, the State and local enforcement and traffic engineering agencies need to examine such things as diversion routings, signal timing, manually controlling intersections, and parking restrictions, and to develop a plan to handle detoured traffic. As a part of this planning phase, it is essential that involved agencies "buy in" to the plan, and commit to implementing their portion of the overall plans when the need arises. Periodically, these plans need to be reviewed and updated as street patterns and traffic conditions change. (Author)

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  • This paper appeared in Transportation Research Circular N298, Traffic Management and Planning for Freeway Emergencies and Special Events. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
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• Authors:
  • Roper, D H
• Publication Date: 1986-1

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: p. 7-8
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Circular
  • Issue Number: 298
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0097-8515

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Contingency planning; Disasters and emergency operations; Freeways; Highway planning; Traffic; Traffic crashes; Traffic diversion; Traffic incidents
• Uncontrolled Terms: Emergency response; Incidents
• Old TRIS Terms: Freeway traffic accidents; Traffic planning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00457072
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 27 2004 10:01PM