Incident traffic management

INCIDENT TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

Traffic Incident Management is a planned and coordinated program process to detect, respond to, and remove traffic incidents and restore traffic capacity as safely and quickly as possible.

• Traffic Incident Management requires a multidisciplinary approach.  
• Traffic incidents require a high level of cooperation and coordination among all agencies involved.
• Effective Incident Traffic Management activities depend on flexible communications and information systems. 
• On the basis of experiences from the military domain, it is possible to develop strategic concepts that ensure the improvement of information sharing and collective action. 
• Such concepts can also be applied to enhanced Traffic Incident Management information systems.
• Incident management is the total package of measures geared to optimise traffic safety during handling incidents like accidents, stopped vehicles, spilled vehicles, etc. to rapid and efficient of incidents to minimal traffic delays.
• Incident Traffic Management is used to arrive at Incident Management that is both preventive and curative.
• Curative Incident Management consists of procedures and technical improvement to speed up incident detection, verification and response.
• Preventive Incident Management is based on the assumption that dangerous (accident prone) situations can be predicted.
• Roadway geometry characteristics along with traffic and weather data are used to determine incident probability on a road segment.
• Using real-time data, short term predictions can be provided.
• Combination of Incident Management (IM) and Traffic Management (TM) can help develop a powerful strategy that is even more effective