TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK

This document is an update to the Freeway Incident Management Handbook, published in 1991 by the FHWA. It provides detail on important elements of successful incident management programs, as well as field operations. It includes new and advanced incident management topics. This update assumes that the traffic congestion issues posed by incidents are already well understood by most agency personnel. As such, the focus in this update is on the safety benefits achievable through effective incident management, as experienced by crash victims, the motoring public, and response agency field personnel. As implied in this handbook title, this update promotes the notion that incident management is needed on all types of highways, not just freeways.

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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/3702
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document is an update to TRIS 00618098.
• Corporate Authors:

  PB Farradyne, Incorporated

  3200 Tower Oaks Boulevard
  Rockville, MD  United States  20852

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Travel Management, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 2000-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 108 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drivers; Emergency medical services; Emergency medical technicians; Handbooks; Highways; Incident management; Passengers; Traffic congestion; Traffic crash victims; Traffic crashes; Traffic incidents; Traffic safety
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00803651
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 20 2001 12:00AM