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Traffic Incident Management
(TIM) Training
Performance Measurements
and Reducing Secondary
Collisions
Tim Lane, Chief of Enforcement
Az Department of Transportation
Enforcement and Compliance Division
602-712-8735
National Statistics
• Between 1987 and 2010 (24 years), 278 law
enforcement officers were struck and killed by
vehicles; that averages out to one officer killed each
month.
• The fire service had five firefighters killed in “struck
by” incidents in 2010, which accounted for about 6
percent of firefighter deaths.
• An average of 23 highway workers were struck and
killed by vehicles each month in 2010 compared to
22 in 2009.
Arizona Model
“Arizona DPS has lost 28 officers, 15 were traffic
related and 11 of those were involved in crashes that
were secondary to an initial traffic incident.”
These are only those that
were killed, how many
more were injured or
were lucky enough just to
have their unoccupied
vehicles struck?
During calendar year 2011 the Arizona Highway Patrol
investigated 1616 collisions which were secondary to a primary
incident of these 541 were secondary to a prior collision and 54
involved first responders.
Training Effectiveness
• National TIM Training Effort
– Tier One
Responder Training
• (SHRP II, National TIM Responder Training)
– Tier Two
Mid-Level Manager Training
• FHWA Mid- Level Management Workshops
– Top 40 Cities by Population
– Tier Three
Executive Brief
SHRP II Training
Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Course
SHRP II
Developed as a single, interdisciplinary course that
introduces, teaches, and provides participants with handson, scenario-based opportunities to acquire and
demonstrate common core competencies among :
• Law Enforcement
• Fire/Rescue
• EMS
• Department of Transportation
• Tow and Recovery
• Communications
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TIM Performance Measures
Response times
Roadway clearance times
Incident clearance times
Incident completion times
Secondary collision data
– Typically more severe than primary incident
– Likelihood of involving a first responder
“Things that are measured get accomplished”
Definition
• Roadway Clearance Time: This interval
is defined as the time between the first
recordable awareness of an incident
(detection, notification, or verification) by a
responding agency and first confirmation
that all traffic lanes are available for traffic
flow.
Definition
• Incident Clearance Time: This interval is
defined as the time between the first
recordable awareness of the incident and
the time at which the last responder has
left the scene.
Definition
• Secondary Incidents (crashes): These
incidents are identified as the number of
unplanned incidents beginning with the
time of detection of the primary incident
where a collision occurs either within the
incident scene or within the queue,
including the opposite direction resulting
from the original incident.
Effects of Congestion on First Responder Safety and Motorists
• 20% or more of all crashes are secondary in nature.
• 18% of all fatal crashes are secondary in nature.
• A vehicle sitting adjacent to the travel lanes or on the
shoulder increases the risk of a secondary crash by
2.8%
• For every minute a roadway is blocked it takes 4
minutes to clear the related queue
Savings from reduced secondary crashes
How Are You Doing?
Oct - Dec 2010: 4,793
April - June 2011: 4,366 (-9%)
• Non-Injury
• Non-Injury
– Roadway Clearance: 45 min
– Roadway Clearance: 32 min (-28%)
– Incident Clearance: 84 min
– Incident Clearance: 40 min (-51%)
• Injury
• Injury
– Roadway Clearance: 54 min
– Roadway Clearance: 46 min (-14%)
– Incident Clearance: 94 min
– Incident Clearance: 58min (-37%)
• Fatal
• Fatal
– Roadway Clearance: 212 min
– Roadway Clearance: 198 min (-6.78%)
– Incident Clearance: 214 min
– Incident Clearance: 211 min (-1.68%)
Leveraging TIM benefits
• During the 2nd Qtr of fy2011
– 417,339 minutes were spend on the highway at crash
scenes (4797 crashes -averaging 87.6 minute
clearance times).
• During the 4th Qtr of fy2011
– Metro Phx HP using TIM strategies saved 46,800
minutes at highway crash scenes.
– Using 2.8% per min increase in secondary crash
risks, that’s a reduction of 1,200 secondary crashes
or about 10%
– Metro Phx averaged 6.07% secondary crashes
compared to a national average of 20%
Savings from reduced secondary crashes
• During the 4th quarter of FY2011 our
completion times were nearly the same,
they were still completed, just off the
roadway out of harms way.
• If 1200 secondary collisions were avoided
with an 87 minute completion time that
saved us 1740 hours that quarter, or 4
FTEs in a year.
Collection method
• We use TraCs10 as our mobile reporting
software.
• Our crash report has the time of incident
• When ADOT created our new form,15 fields
were included than could be used by any
agency.
• We utilize those fields to collect, time roadway
was reopened, time responders clear the scene,
and secondary crash information.
Additional TIM Performance and TraCS
• TraCS Electronic enforcement documents
– Officers are reporting much quicker traffic stop
completion times, nearly saving 10 minutes per stop
– DPS/HPB stops nearly 500,000 violators a year
– How many hours are saved? (47 FTEs)
– How many secondary collisions are avoided?
– What other positive or negative results are there?
• Un-obligated time during our first year of TIM
went from 18% to 21% an increase from
2010 of nearly 3% or 44,565 hours.
– 1750 hours per full time employee (FTE)
– 25 FTEs
• Where do we go from here?
– Continue TIM training among Coalition
– Memorialize TIM strategies as an HPD priority
in HPD Policy.
– Add performance goals into HPD Strategic
Plan to:
• Further reduce secondary collisions involving first
responders and motorists
• Further reduce roadway clearance times
• Further reduce incident clearance times
Success
Through the use of TIM Strategies we believe
the AzDPS has:
• Reduced the risk to officers and motorists of
secondary crashes.
• Increases available un-obligated time
officers can use for proactive activities.
• Reduced non-reoccurring congestion.
Conclusion
• TIM Training and Performance Measures
are critical to advancing TIM
• We all need to work together to get this
done
• Please join the TIM Network
• Thank You!