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9 To improve TIM, attention is needed at all levels of TIM programs, including strategic, tactical, and support activities. Strategic activities focus on establishing TIM within the fabric of responder agencies through institutional structures, such as establishing a formal TIM performance measurement program and making the business case for TIM.
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10 Leveraging Big Data to Improve Traffic Incident Management 2.1.1 Establishment of Local, Regional, and Statewide TIM Committees The establishment of local, regional, and statewide TIM committees has led to better planning, coordination, and communications among TIM responder groups. Local TIM teams discuss tangible on-scene practices and operating considerations, and often debrief significant or problematic incidents.
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State of the Practice of TIM 11 Committee) and designated the state police and state transportation agencies to lead the effort.
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12 Leveraging Big Data to Improve Traffic Incident Management into the planning process is a good business practice and recommends it as a way of formalizing and institutionalizing TIM within an agency and the broader agency goals (Pecheux, Shah, and O'Donnell 2016)
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State of the Practice of TIM 13 • Incident clearance time (ICT) : The time between the first recordable awareness of the incident by a responsible agency and the time at which the last responder has left the scene.
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14 Leveraging Big Data to Improve Traffic Incident Management led to changes in the statewide reporting format for all agencies in 2014 (Pecheux 2016)
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State of the Practice of TIM 15 likelihood of secondary crashes. The FHWA recently developed a guide for agencies on how to make the business case for TIM in which data plays a critical role -- particularly data that documents the need for or benefits from a program's activities in a way that can be balanced against its cost (Pecheux, Shah, and O'Donnell 2016)
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