The Idaho Transportation Department's (ITD) Traffic Incident Management or TIM Program is dedicated to improving the on-scene safety of Idaho's incident responders. By increasing outreach awareness of TIM practices, the program can increase the reliability of Idaho roadways and the livability of our communities.
TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT TRAINING
This is a FREE Training! Traffic Incident Management (TIM) consists of a planned and coordinated multi-disciplinary process to detect, respond to and clear traffic incidents so that traffic flow may be restored as safely and quickly as possible. TIM Responder Training brings together personnel across the responder spectrum to build a stronger, more coordinated corps at the local and national levels.
The GOAL of this training is to provide quarterly training based on geographic regions to all of Idaho in the coming year. Since the program began in Idaho, 396 Incident Responders have been training and 118 TIM Trainers have been certified. The key to building stronger incident response teams is to train responders across all agencies together. Then, these trained responders train their colleagues. expanding the reach of the TIM Program across Idaho.
Traffic Incident Management is important because it:
It takes a TEAM of response agencies to work together to respond to highway incidents, including:
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