Sharing Information between Public Safety and Transportation Agencies for Traffic Incident Management (2004) / Chapter Skim
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WSDOT has developed a quarterly reporting process to track a variety of performance and accountability measures for routine review by the Washington State Transportation Commission and others. This report includes a section on incident response, including the total number of responses by month, the average clearance times by month, and the number of incidents that last more than 90 minutes.
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The CMT consists of representatives from the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the San Antonio Public Works Department, Alamo Dome, the San Antonio Police Department, the Bexar County Sheriff's Department, EMS providers, towing and recovery service providers, and county health agencies. WSP and WSDOT have cooperatively developed a joint operations policy statement.
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This can be accomplished through prompt and effective use of highway advisory radio, variable message signs, 511 systems, detours, and traffic news service interfaces. These means are most effective when public safety agencies support and accommodate such traffic management methods.
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The lack of full-time incident management operations by transportation agencies was an issue identified by public safety agencies in the survey locations. Public safety agencies recognize that transportation field resources provide important incident management services and have identified important roles for highway operations staff.
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Moreover, they realize that the same types of homeland defense information exchanged between transportation agencies and public safety agencies can be applied to the less serious (but more common) domains of everyday crime and traffic law enforcement.
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In Seattle, the exercise simulated a radiological dispersal device, or dirty 18 bomb, detonation. During the exercise, WSDOT provided staff in the State Emergency Operations Center.
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