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Traffic Incident Management

& Trauma Care

Traffic Incident Management (TIM) is the process of coordinating the
resources of a number of different government partner agencies and
private sector companies to detect, respond to, and clear traffic incidents

as quickly as possible to reduce the impacts of incidents on safety
and congestion, while enhancing the safety of the travelling public.

hen an accident
occurs, congestion
quickly builds up
and chances of a
Wsecondary incident
increase. The sooner incidents are
detected, the sooner safety personnel
can respond to the incident and clear it
from the roads thereby allowing traffic
lanes to re-open and traffic to return to
normal conditions. The system assists with
creating a safe work zone with proper
signage and equipment for emergency
crews responding to an incident.
In National Highways Public Private
Partnership Projects, concessionaires
are obligated to establish a system of
highway patrol and to make interventions
as required for smooth, safe and efficient
traffic movement by providing rescue and
relief to the users in case of need. In Public
funded projects of National Highways
Authority of India (NHAI) it deploys at its
own cost Highways Control System. In
both situations the route patrol is normally
the primary source of information about
occurrence of such incidents. Secondary
sources may be cellphones from drivers
or passengers where traffic management
centers are set up and such information
would be sourced from CCTV footages
and emergency call boxes

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