Programs
Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Committees are groups of stakeholders consisting of law enforcement, fire, rescue, towing, recovery, and transportation agencies interested in enhancing traffic incident management on Maine’s roadways.
Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Committees are groups of stakeholders consisting of law enforcement, fire, rescue, towing, recovery, and transportation agencies interested in enhancing traffic incident management on Maine’s roadways.
The Maine TIM program focuses on the following objectives:
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Increase responder safety by eliminating struck-by incidents, injuries, and fatalities.
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Minimize impacts to the free flow of traffic
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Decrease incident clearance time
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Decrease secondary incident occurrences
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Improve inter-agency communication during incidents.
This group provides overarching guidance and allows for a statewide assessment of various issues and themes for traffic incident management throughout the regions and groups in the State.