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Sharing Information between Public Safety and Transportation Agencies for Traffic Incident Management (2004) / Chapter Skim
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... Transportation agencies, in seeking to operationally integrate their handling of congestion-producing highway incidents with public safety, have also embraced IMS principles and broadened IMS application beyond on-scene operations to include traffic management center operations. TIM is a planned and coordinated process to detect, respond to, and remove traffic incidents and restore traffic capacity as safely and quickly as possible.
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... San Diego, CA California DOT California Highway Patrol Seattle, WA Washington State DOT Washington State Patrol
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... For the purpose of this case study, the results are grouped according to categories of traffic incident information-sharing methods: • Face-to-Face -- Personal communication where staff from different agencies share office space (such as joint operations centers or mobile command posts)
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