In Philadelphia, the Traffic and Incident Management System (TIMS) on I-95 contributed to a 40 percent decrease in freeway incidents and reduced the incident-severity rate by 8 percent.
Date Posted
09/21/2000
Identifier
2007-B00493
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Helping Americans

Summary Information

This article provided examples of incident and emergency management operations.

In Philadelphia, the Traffic and Incident Management System (TIMS) is helping traffic circumvent highway incidents and emergencies on I-95. TIMS reroutes vehicles immediately after an incident is detected, thus diluting traffic flow and decreasing the risk of secondhand pile-ups. TIMS has helped decrease freeway incidents by 40 percent, cut freeway closure time by 55 percent, and reduced the incident-severity rate by 8 percent since its implementation in 1993.

Helping Americans

Helping Americans
Source Publication Date
01/02/1997
Author
Taylor, Steven T.
Publisher
ITS World
Goal Areas
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