TIMS EXAM SCRIPT FINAL PAPER
QUESTIONS ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY RESOURCE
●● How many areas of focus does SHRP 2 have? what are they?
Answer: 4 areas of focus: 1. Safety 2. Renewal 3. Reliability 4. Capacity
National Unified
●● The TIM training program was designed to?
Answer: Establish the foundation for and to promote consistent training
of all responders to achieve the three objectives of the TIM goal
●● What are the three objectives of the TIM National Unified Goal
(NUG)?
Answer: 1. Responder Safety 2. Safe, Quick Clearance 3. Prompt,
Reliable, Interoperable Communications
●● What are D Drivers?
Answer: Drunk Drugged Drowsy Distracted Dumb
●● Who suffers the most deaths by being struck each year?
Answer: Tow truck drivers (Average 60)
,●● On average, how many police officers die by being struck by traffic
each year?
Answer: Average of 12 per year over 24 years
●● Crashes that occur within the incident scene or within the queue or
backup, including the opposite direction, resulting from an original
incident.
Answer: Secondary crashes
●● Effective TIM reduces and does what?
Answer: Reduces the duration and impacts of traffic incidents -Improves
the safety of motorists, crash victims, and emergency responders.
●● Goods that have been imported or exported illegally into the
dormitory, and are not allowed? (i.e. testosterone supplements)
Answer: Contraband
●● Goal of TIM is to?
Answer: Shorten the time duration between when the incident occurs,
and when traffic resumes as normal.
●● Three standards that TIM performance measures?
Answer: 1. Roadway clearance time 2. Incident clearance time 3.
Number of secondary crashes
, ●● The practice of rapidly, safely, and aggressively removing temporary
obstructions from the roadway?
Answer: Safe, quick clearance
●● What does safe, quick clearance help to do?
Answer: 1. Minimizing exposure to adjacent passing traffic 2. Reduce
the probability of secondary crashes 3. Relieve overall congestion and
delay.
●● Nationally, there are three types of laws that facilitate TIM, what are
they?
Answer: 1. Move Over Laws 2. Driver Removal Laws 3. Authority
Removal Laws
●● Law that provides authority (and immunity from liability in general)
for designated public agencies to remove vehicles and/or spilled cargo
from the roadway to restore traffic flow.
Answer: Authority Removal Laws
●● Law that require motorists involved in minor crashes (where there
are no serious injuries and the vehicle can be driven) to move their
vehicles out of the travel lanes to the shoulder or other safe area?
Answer: Driver Removal Laws
QUESTIONS ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY RESOURCE
●● How many areas of focus does SHRP 2 have? what are they?
Answer: 4 areas of focus: 1. Safety 2. Renewal 3. Reliability 4. Capacity
National Unified
●● The TIM training program was designed to?
Answer: Establish the foundation for and to promote consistent training
of all responders to achieve the three objectives of the TIM goal
●● What are the three objectives of the TIM National Unified Goal
(NUG)?
Answer: 1. Responder Safety 2. Safe, Quick Clearance 3. Prompt,
Reliable, Interoperable Communications
●● What are D Drivers?
Answer: Drunk Drugged Drowsy Distracted Dumb
●● Who suffers the most deaths by being struck each year?
Answer: Tow truck drivers (Average 60)
,●● On average, how many police officers die by being struck by traffic
each year?
Answer: Average of 12 per year over 24 years
●● Crashes that occur within the incident scene or within the queue or
backup, including the opposite direction, resulting from an original
incident.
Answer: Secondary crashes
●● Effective TIM reduces and does what?
Answer: Reduces the duration and impacts of traffic incidents -Improves
the safety of motorists, crash victims, and emergency responders.
●● Goods that have been imported or exported illegally into the
dormitory, and are not allowed? (i.e. testosterone supplements)
Answer: Contraband
●● Goal of TIM is to?
Answer: Shorten the time duration between when the incident occurs,
and when traffic resumes as normal.
●● Three standards that TIM performance measures?
Answer: 1. Roadway clearance time 2. Incident clearance time 3.
Number of secondary crashes
, ●● The practice of rapidly, safely, and aggressively removing temporary
obstructions from the roadway?
Answer: Safe, quick clearance
●● What does safe, quick clearance help to do?
Answer: 1. Minimizing exposure to adjacent passing traffic 2. Reduce
the probability of secondary crashes 3. Relieve overall congestion and
delay.
●● Nationally, there are three types of laws that facilitate TIM, what are
they?
Answer: 1. Move Over Laws 2. Driver Removal Laws 3. Authority
Removal Laws
●● Law that provides authority (and immunity from liability in general)
for designated public agencies to remove vehicles and/or spilled cargo
from the roadway to restore traffic flow.
Answer: Authority Removal Laws
●● Law that require motorists involved in minor crashes (where there
are no serious injuries and the vehicle can be driven) to move their
vehicles out of the travel lanes to the shoulder or other safe area?
Answer: Driver Removal Laws
