Incident Management in Work Zones
Traffic capacity and shoulder/pullout areas are often restricted in work zones. Prompt detection and clearance of traffic incidents in work zones can help reduce secondary crashes and delay. Preparing a work zone traffic incident management plan and using strategies that improve detection, verification, response, and clearance of crashes, mechanical failures, and other incidents in work zones and on detour routes can benefit safety and mobility.
Guides
- Traffic Incident Management in Construction and Maintenance Work Zones Primer - Addresses special considerations when managing traffic incidents within a work zone and describes traffic incident management techniques and strategies to consider for the transportation operations component of a transportation management plan (TMP).
Examples
- Mainstreaming Incident Management in Design-Build: The T-REX Experience (PDF 143KB) - Paper that presents the planning process and the approaches used to work with multiple agencies and disciplines to develop the incident management program for the T-REX project in Denver, Colorado.
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