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... 1   Introduction A coordinated response to roadway crashes and other incidents is vital to protecting public and responder safety, keeping traffic moving, reducing adverse environmental impacts, and enhancing traffic operations' efficiency. Traffic incident management (TIM)
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... 2 Guidelines for Quantifying Benefits of Traffic Incident Management Strategies guide focuses on straightforward, less data­intensive methods for estimating TIM benefits through example and offers direction and data requirements for more rigorous methods. This document provides guidelines for identifying, quantifying, and monetizing the benefits of TIM activities.
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... Demonstrating the Value of Trafc Incident Management 3   Who Should Use the Guide is guide is designed specically for sta responsible for dening and conducting the analysis for quantifying and monetizing TIM program benets. Transportation agency managers charged with the overall planning and implementation of TIM programs will also benet from understanding the benets analysis process.
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... 4 Guidelines for Quantifying Benets of Trafc Incident Management Strategies e rst stage of benets analysis is to specify the purpose(s) of the analysis.
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... Demonstrating the Value of Trafc Incident Management 5   work with analysts and gain concurrence to apply estimates based on comparable systems and national estimates (rules of thumb, engineering judgment, peer experience)

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