Integration of the incident command system (ICS) protocol for effective coordination of multi-agency response to traffic incidents : final report.

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• Creators:
  Ogle, Jennifer H ; Chowdhury, Ronnie ; Huynh, Nathan N. ; Davis, Jeffrey ; Xie, Yuanchang
• Corporate Creators:
  Clemson University
• Contributors:
  Casteel, Meredith W.
• Corporate Contributors:
  South Carolina. Dept. of Transportation. Office of Materials and Research
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Best practices
  • Highway traffic control
  • Incident management Traffic incident management
  • hazmat
  • coroner
  • towing
  • crash
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-SC-17-07
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States;South Carolina
• Edition:
  Final report
• Corporate Publisher:
  South Carolina. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  In recent years, there has been an increased focus on Traffic Incident Management (TIM) and ; incorporation of the Incident Command System (ICS) to reduce traffic congestion on the nation's ; Interstates. In fact, studies show that for every minute a freeway lane is blocked due to an incident, ; there is a corresponding time of four minutes of travel delay, and the likelihood of a secondary crash ; increases by 2.8% for every minute that the primary incident remains a hazard. Efficiencies resulting ; from adoption of coordinated multi-agency response through ICS can reduce the impact of non-recurrent ; traffic congestion caused by traffic incidents on major roadways. This project investigated ; the effectiveness of multi-stakeholder agency coordinated ICS strategies for managing traffic ; incidents by considering their potential impacts in reducing incident duration. Between 2012 and ; 2013, there were 129 fatal incidents recorded on SC Interstates. Roughly half of the fatal incident ; recovery times (dispatch of response to incident cleared) were in excess of six hours, with maximum ; recovery times well over 12 hours. These clearance and recovery times are significantly higher than ; those in other states. States which have implemented enhanced ICS and TIM procedures are ; consistently achieving major incident clearance times of one and a half hours or less. After analyzing ; the current state-of-practice in South Carolina, and national best practices, the potential areas for ; improvement in incident response were identified. The TIM areas most in need of improvement were ; response and clearance strategies, with major gaps noted in towing, coroner, HAZMAT, and crash ; investigation procedures.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  SPR No. 699
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/32407/dot_32407_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 7.92 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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