Floridas Traffic Incident Management Program

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Floridas Traffic Incident Management Program

• A Plan For Success
• Floridas TIM Strategic Plan

Paul Clark Florida DOT Traffic Incident
Management and Road Ranger Program Manager
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The Plan - Why Do We Need It

• Provides a basis for more detailed planning
• Helps to explain our business to others
• Assists in benchmarking and performance
  monitoring
• Stimulates change and is a building block for our
  next plan
• Provide the needed framework for securing support
  and funding

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The Plan - Development

• FDOT Commissioned the Plan
• PB Farradyne assembled the Plan
• Will be reviewed by
• FDOT
• Statewide TIM Team
• Local TIM Teams
• TIM Steering Committee

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The Plan Whats In It

• Introduction to TIM
• Current Status of TIM in Florida
• Mission, Vision, Goals and Objectives
• Traffic Incident Management Strategic Plan
• FDOTs TIM Business Plan
• Concluding Recommendations

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Current Status of TIM - Statewide

• TIM began in late 1980s
• Statewide TIM formally established in 2003
• Statewide TIM Team that meets quarterly
• Team is a multi-disciplined team
• Local and State Law Enforcement
• Fire Rescue and EMS
• Towers
• Media/511
• FDOT Districts
• Others

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Current Status of TIM - Statewide

• In 2002 established a Statewide Open Roads Policy
  between FHP and FDOT
• GOAL of 90 minutes for incidents to be cleared
  from the roadway
• Defines FHP and FDOT responsibilities

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Current Status of TIM - Statewide

• In 2004 established Guidelines of Accidental
  Discharge of Motor Vehicle Fluids (Non-Cargo)
• Guidelines were developed to clarify what could
  and could not be done

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Current Status of TIM - Statewide

• Road Ranger approval to join the SLERS (State Law
  Enforcement Radio System)
• 800 MHz
• iWitness provide to FHP statewide through the TIM

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Current Status of TIM - Local

• 15 Active TIM Teams involving 24 counties
• 8 Counties in the planning stages
• 35 Counties with out plans

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Current Status of TIM - Local

• Floridas Turnpike
• RISC (Rapid Incident Scene Clearance) Program
• District One and Four
• Sponsoring 14 Florida Highway Patrol (FHP)
  Troopers on Alligator Alley
• District Two
• Establishing the Open Roads Policy at the local
  level
• District Four
• SIRV (Severe Incident Response Vehicle)
• Tablet based tracking of Road Ranger data

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Current Status of TIM - Local

• District Five
• All counties within the District are a member of
  a TIM Team
• Sponsoring 21 FHP Troopers on I-4
• Established and/or establishing local Open Roads
  Policies District wide
• Established agreement with Medical Examiner
• Tested a common TIM communications system
• District Six
• PDA based tracking of Road Ranger data

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MISSION, VISION, AND GOALS

• Mission
• Provide efficient, coordinated, and consistent
  traffic incident management across the state that
  will improve the safety and reliability of the
  transportation network.
• Vision
• Develop an institutionally integrated and fully
  cooperative association of all public agency and
  private industry traffic incident management
  stakeholders for which traffic incident
  management is requisite in the transportation and
  public safety culture of the state, and places
  Florida at the forefront nationally.

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MISSION, VISION, AND GOALS

• Goal 1
• Provide safe transportation for residents,
  visitors, and commerce.
• Goal 2
• Provide protection of the publics investment in
  transportation.
• Goal 3
• Provide an interconnected transportation system
  that enhances Floridas economic competitiveness
• Goal 4
• Provide travel choices to ensure mobility,
  sustain the quality of the environment, preserve
  community values and reduce energy consumption.

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The Plan

• The Strategic Plans Philosophy
• Think globally (statewide), plan regionally and
  practice locally
• Strategic Principles
• Things that will ensure our success
• Statewide and Regionally

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The Plan Traffic Incident TimelinePerformance
Measures
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The Plan Traffic Incident Timeline Performance
Measures
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The Plan

• TIM Operations
• Deals with resource and incident management
• Communications and Technologies
• Integrated communications, ITS, etc
• Programs and Institutions
• Looks at programmatic and institutional issues
• Increases stakeholders, MOUs, Staffing, etc.
• Recommended changes in law, policies and
  procedures

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Conclusion

• Floridas TIM Strategic Plan
• A Plan For Success
• A more detailed plan
• Explains TIM to others
• Helps establish performance measures
• Stimulates change
• Why we need the dollars

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Questions or Comments

• Paul Clark
• Traffic Incident Management and Road Ranger
  Program Manager
• Office [phone]
• Cell [phone]
• Email paul.clark_at_dot.state.fl.us