Senior executive transportation & public safety summit : national traffic incident management leadership & innovation roadmap for success

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• Alternative Title:
  Senior executive transportation & public safety summit : national traffic incident management leadership & innovation roadmap for success June 26-29, 2012 Washington, DC
• Creators:
  Allwell, Cassandra ; Perlman, David ; Paiewonsky, Luisa ; Vasconez, Kimberly C. ; Lane, Tim
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Traffic congestion
  • Incident management
  • Highway traffic control systems
  • Law enforcement
  • Traffic law enforcement
  • Conferences
  • Safety
  • Hazards and emergency operations
  • Deployment
  • Laws and legislation
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-HOP-12-051
• Resource Type:
  Proceedings
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  This report summarizes the proceedings, findings, and recommendations from a two-day Senior ; Executive Summit on ; Transportation and Public Safety, held June 26 and 27, 2012 at the United States Department of ; Transportation (USDOT) in Washington, D.C. This forum of senior-level, multi-disciplinary ; executives representing the transportation, law enforcement, fire and rescue, and emergency medical ; services communities addressed major challenges and innovative solutions in enhancing the state of ; the practice nationally in Traffic Incident Management (TIM). Secretary of Transportation Ray ; LaHood, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Deputy Administrator Greg Nadeau, and FHWA Executive ; Director Jeff Paniati provided opening remarks expressing the commitment of the entire Department ; to support safe, quick traffic incident response on the Nation’s roadways. Participants at the ; Summit discussed innovative practices in TIM policies, legislation, training and outreach. Summit ; highlights included discussions and presentations on the following issues: Improving responder and ; motorist safety and consistency among jurisdictions; Supporting TIM outreach initiatives and ; messaging; Enhancing State and local legislation and policies that advance TIM planning and ; operations, including Driver Removal and Authority Removal legislation; Supporting urgent and ; clearly-defined research strategies, such as model Move Over and Driver Removal laws, the effects ; of emergency lighting, and the impact of TIM performance measures; Implementing the National TIM ; Responder Training course developed through the Transportation Research Board’s Second Strategic ; Highway Research Program (SHRP 2); Improving the efficiency of the highway system through possible ; cost-recovery strategies, better investment of cost-efficient resources, and improved communication ; among responders about roles and responsibilities; and Developing an action-based executive group ; equipped to provide leadership, support, and guidance in ; advancing priority actions.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/9684/dot_9684_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.15 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center ; Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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