About Us
Traffic Incident Management (TIM) is a planned and coordinated program process to detect, respond to, and remove traffic incidents and restore traffic capacity as safety and quickly as possible.
The TIM Program of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is part of a larger all-hazards program called "Emergency Transportation Operations" (ETO).
Both the ETO and TIM Programs are housed in the FHWA's Office of Transportation Operations under the Associate Administrator for Operations.
FHWA's Traffic Incident Management Program focuses on three areas:
