Traffic Incident Management Self Assessment
The purpose of the Traffic Incident Management Self Assessment (TIM SA) is to provide a formal process for State and local transportation, public safety and private sector partners to collaboratively assess their traffic incident management programs and identify opportunities for improvement.
In 2003, the Federal Highway Administration facilitated the initial assessments of Traffic Incident Management (TIM) programs in the largest 75 urban areas of the United States. Representatives of key transportation and public safety agencies and private sector partners in each area conducted the assessments.
Subsequent annual assessments have enabled state and local program managers and practitioners to evaluate their TIM programs and identify strengths and weaknesses in their programs in order to prioritize program activities and initiatives. Each year the assessment is compared against the baseline established in the initial assessment and against the previous year’s assessment. At a national level the assessments enable FHWA to evaluate progress in traffic incident management and to identify national TIM program initiatives.
The assessment consists of 34 questions covering the three main TIM program areas – (1) Program and Institutional Issues, (2) Operational Issues, and (3) Communications and Technology Issues.
National Executive Summary Report (HTML, DOC 123KB)
The inaugural round of assessments in 2003 yielded scores from 70 separate TIM Self-Assessments. The assessments were representative of Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas (CMSAs), as defined by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, including many of which are multi-state areas containing more than one major city. The FHWA Division Offices, in cooperation with state and local partners, were responsible for determining how to identify logical operational boundaries for assessment purposes. A total of 82 separate assessment areas were identified, from which 70 completed assessments were submitted and included in the 2003 results analysis.
Analysis of 2007 TIM Self Assessments (PDF 139 KB)
Analysis of 2006 TIM Self Assessments (PDF 42 KB)
Analysis of 2005 TIM Self Assessments (PDF 135 KB)
Analysis of 2004 TIM Self Assessments (PDF 206KB)
Traffic Incident Management Self Assessment Tool
The Traffic Incident Management Self-Assessment is a tool to be used by state and regional program managers to assess their achievement of a successful multi-agency program to manage traffic incidents effectively and safely. The results of the Self Assessment are also used to identify national TIM program initiatives by the FHWA. The TIM Self-Assessment Guide is available as a Microsoft Word file (DOC, 198KB), and the companion scoring template as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (XLS, 29KB).
