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Newly Released Publications

Planned Special Events: Cost Management and Cost Recovery Primer

This purpose of this primer is to aid jurisdictions and agencies, especially Departments of Transportation, with identifying and managing the costs of planned special events (PSEs) and forming policy for cost recovery.

  • Report (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-09-028) (HTML, PDF 1.3MB)

Evacuating Populations With Special Needs - Routes to Effective Evacuation Planning Primer Series

This primer, Evacuating Populations with Special Needs, provides local and state emergency managers, government officials, transportation agencies, and other organizations involved in disaster response with best practices and tools to accommodate people with special needs in an evacuation. Specifically, this document should aid in developing an evacuation plan that includes the coordination of transportation resources to meet the requirements of people with special needs.

  • Report (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-09-022) (HTML, PDF 21MB)

Safe, Quick Clearance Primer Series

As part of FHWA's mission to "Keep America Moving," we need to safeguard the motoring public and those responding to traffic incidents. Safe, quick clearance of highway incidents - a foundation of both mature and developing TIM programs - depends on strong, coordinated multi-agency operations that are supported by integrated communications. As a part of this campaign and in support of TIM practitioners, FHWA is pleased to introduce a new set of primers, collectively known as the "Safe, Quick Clearance Primer Series." This series includes five primers that address various issues associated with roadside clearance operations and provide basic building blocks on:

  • Traffic Incident Management in Construction and Maintenance Work Zones
    • Primer (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-08-056) (HTML, PDF 3.5MB)
    • Executive Summary (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-08-056x) (HTML, PDF 228KB)
  • Traffic Control Concepts for Incident Clearance
    • Primer (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-08-057) (HTML, PDF 3.7MB)
    • Executive Summary (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-08-057x) (HTML, PDF 762KB)
  • Traffic Incident Management in Hazardous Materials Spills in Incident Clearance
    • Primer (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-08-058) (HTML, PDF 4.9MB)
    • Executive Summary (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-08-058x) (HTML, PDF 405KB)
  • Information Sharing for Traffic Incident Management
    • Primer (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-08-059) (HTML, PDF 3.5MB)
    • Executive Summary (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-08-059x) (HTML, PDF 472KB)
  • Traffic Incident Management Resource Management
    • Primer (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-08-060) (HTML, PDF 7.4MB)
    • Executive Summary (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-08-060x) (HTML, PDF 949KB)

National Summary Report for the Traffic Incident Management Self Assessment (2008)

The Traffic Incident Management Self-Assessment (TIM SA) provides a means for evaluating progress in achievement of individual TIM program components and overall TIM program success. Now in its sixth year, the TIM SA also has allowed the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to identify program gaps and target resources to TIM program advancement.

  • Self Assessment (HTML, PDF 269KB)

Traffic Incident Management Quick Clearance Laws: A National Review of Best Practices

This report includes: (1) a description of the role and relevance of Quick Clearance Laws in the broader traffic incident management context; (2) a detailed review of the purpose and intent, model language, observed content trends and anomalies, and implementation challenges and resolutions for Move Over, Driver Removal, and Authority Removal laws including specific examples from State legislation; and (3) concluding remarks and proposed strategies for implementation, including beneficial synergy resulting from combined Quick Clearance Law implementation.

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