Regional TIM Committee Evolves
KC Scout Manager Randy Johnson and Incident Management Coordinator Marcus Slaughter alongside with Amanda Horner of Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) have developed a Regional Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Committee. This committee tackle s traffic incident management at a regional level and aims to create effective bi-state, multi-agency participation in order to advance traffic incident management. Johnson says that the first step in creating this committee was to determine what the needs were in the local response community and the KC Scout/MARC Implementation team determined that those needs included: Create a dialogue for better inter-agency exercising of coordination, communication, and cooperation. Offer opportunities for inter-agency training and exercises that promote teamwork. Create a tool or plan for developing common operational strategies. Cultivate a better understanding of other agencies and their responsibilities ...