AP-R297/07 : Review of Current Traffic Incident Management Practices

The Austroads Improving Traffic Incident Management project involves a review of traffic incident management in major urban regions across Australia and New Zealand and identifies innovative practices that may be suitable for wider application, as well as provide a benchmark for ongoing improvement. This report reviewed current traffic incident management practices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, to identify successful practices and challenges or gaps in current practices that could lead to improvements in the management of traffic incidents. The assessment covered program and institutional issues (strategy and programs, resourcing, performance measurement, institutional arrangements), operational issues (procedures for major incidents, responder and motorist safety, response and clearance policies and procedures) and communication and technology issues (integrated inter-agency communications, transport management systems and traveller information).

• Record URL:
  http://www.onlinepublications.austroads.com.au/script/Details.asp?DocN=AS341118711957
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  AUSTROADS

  24-28 Campbell Street, P.O. Box K659, Roden Cutler House
  Haymarket, New South Wales  Australia  2000
• Publication Date: 2007-1-24

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 60p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traveler information systems; Communication; Emergency medical services; Highway safety; Highway traffic control; Highway traffic control systems; Incident management; Institutional issues; Interagency relations; Performance measurement; Policy; Procedures; Program management; Resource allocation; Strategic planning; Traffic incidents; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Traffic incident clearance
• Geographic Terms: Adelaide (Australia); Brisbane (Australia); Melbourne (Australia); Perth (Australia); Sydney (Australia)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Policy; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01047336
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1921139854
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 23 2007 1:15PM