The organization extends its heartfelt thanks to the Alaska Firefighters Association for their generous sponsorship of the training program. Their support is crucial in helping provide valuable education and resources to the community. Thank you for your dedication and commitment!
The Alaska Highway Safety Office is hosting a 4-hour National Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Responder Training course in Anchorage. The course will be held on September 18, 2024, from 8:00 am to noon at the Sheraton Hotel following the 2024 Alaska Safe Roadways Behavior Symposium on September 16 and 17.
The four-hour National Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Responder Training course teaches every responder community how to safely and quickly clear traffic incidents. Traffic incident responders include emergency medical service (EMS), transportation and public works, fire and rescue, law enforcement, towing and recovery, and other professionals who support traffic incident management.
Justin Boddy is a Battalion Chief who works for the Fort Wainwright Fire and Emergency Services. He has served in the fire service for 24 years, with nearly 17 of those years at Fort Wainwright. Battalion Chief Boddy has been an avid instructor of the Traffic Incident Management class consistently since 2018 and has taught nearly 20 offerings both throughout the Interior of Alaska and at the 2023 Alaska Fire Conference in Valdez.
Every minute of every day, incident responders put their lives at risk by responding to traffic incidents. In the year 2020, even with significantly lower traffic, 46 responders were killed. In the year 2021, 65 responders were killed, which is over a 40-percent increase from the previous year. The year 2022 showed a positive correction, with 50 line-of-duty deaths in the United States. Untold is the far greater number of life-altering injuries responders incur each year while working at a traffic incident scene. The National TIM Responder Training course is a key part of mitigating deaths and injuries across the responder community.
The four-hour National Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Responder Training course teaches every responder community how to safely and quickly clear traffic incidents. Traffic incident responders include emergency medical service (EMS), transportation and public works, fire and rescue, law enforcement, towing and recovery, and other professionals who support traffic incident management.
Efficient incident response requires seamless collaboration and coordination among responders to meet the needs of those injured, ensure the safety of responders and road users, quickly clear the incident, and prevent secondary crashes.
Traffic incidents are unplanned roadway events that affect or impede the normal flow of traffic. Traffic incidents increase the likelihood of secondary crashes and pose a threat to the safety of incident responders as well as the traveling public. Incidents affect travel reliability, commerce, and transportation system performance. One of the essential responsibilities of transportation and public safety agencies is to ensure the safe and quick clearance of traffic incidents.
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. Effective TIM reduces the duration and impacts of traffic incidents; improves the safety of motorists, crash victims, and emergency responders; and reduces the frequency of secondary crashes. TIM is integral to the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) National Roadway Safety Strategy (NRSS), and is specifically called out as a key element for the post-crash care objective.
The goal of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) TIM Program is to continuously improve the safety of responders and road users, as well as the travel, and the efficiency of incident and emergency response through the reliability of institutionalization of TIM programs. To achieve this goal, the FHWA TIM Program focuses on five tracks:
The TIM Program is housed in the FHWA’s Office of Transportation Operations under the Associate Administrator for Operations.
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