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Understanding Traffic Incident Management: Quiz and Key Facts

This presentation covers the essentials of traffic incident management and its importance in ensuring roadway safety. Learn about traffic incidents, their impact on safety and delays, and the various responders involved such as firefighters, law enforcement, and EMS personnel. A pop quiz at the end encourages active participation and reinforces crucial knowledge about traffic incidents, including how to respond in case of one. Engage with the Traffic Incident Management Public Outreach Toolkit to spread awareness in your community.

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Understanding Traffic Incident Management: Quiz and Key Facts

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  1. Traffic Incident Management

  2. Pop Quiz! Match the numbers on the following slide to these facts!

  3. Pop Quiz! 87.2B 36 20,000 4 38,000 2.8B 24 160+

  4. Answer Key

  5. So what is a “traffic incident” anyway?

  6. Traffic Incidents • Traffic incidents are just about anything that happens on or near a roadway that affects traffic. • They create unsafe situations and put lives at risk, and cause delays. • They compromise our safety, and cost us time and money everyday.

  7. Who Responds to Traffic Incidents?

  8. Traffic Incident Management Helps Everyone • Traffic Incident Management Responders work together as a teamto respond safely and quickly. • Firefighters • Law enforcement officers • EMS responders • Transportation /Safety Service Patrols • Maintenance crews • Towing and recovery • 911/Dispatch

  9. Traffic Incident Managers Can’t Do It Alone!

  10. Do Your Part!

  11. Pop Quiz! • What’s a traffic incident? • What should you do with your vehicle—if you safely can—if you are in a traffic incident? • What should you do when you see flashing lights on a roadway? • What should you do when you leave this room today?

  12. How Can I Help? You can help spread the word in your community using the Traffic Incident Management Public Outreach Toolkit Products. They are freely available and customizable: http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/eto_tim_pse/timtoolbox/

  13. OPTIONAL HANDOUT: POP QUIZ!Match the numbers in the left column to the fact in the right column

  14. Questions? <National statistics are used in this presentation. Presenters are encouraged to complement these with regional or more localized information if possible.> Visit the TIM Public Outreach Toolkit: http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/eto_tim_pse/timtoolbox/

  15. Thank you! Visit the TIM Public Outreach Toolkit: http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/eto_tim_pse/timtoolbox/

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