Successful Practice/Case Study Information

HURRICANE DENNIS: Nags Head, NC - 9/1/99 Fifty-plus miles of Highway 12, which leads South from Nags Head to Cape Hatteras and the Hatteras Island, was closed off to traffic due to the sand drifts that covered the coastal highway from ocean overwashes. The change of direction by Dennis brought high seas and winds that battered and flooded the coastal road. Photo by DAVE GATLEY/FEMA News Photo Incident Management Successful Practices: A Cross Cutting Study (PDF, 1.1MB) - This document is a 28-page overview of successful practices in traffic incident management across the United States. It describes who the partners are in traffic incident management and lists some benefits obtained in various traffic incident management programs. It also lists issues and lessons learned for incident detection and verification, response, site management, clearance, interagency coordination, training and leadership, and strategic program planning for traffic incident management.

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