TIMS STUDY GUIDE 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Response Activities - ✔✔Scene safety, command responsibilities, traffic
management
✔✔Safe and quick clearance definition - ✔✔Practice of rapidly, safely and aggressively
removing temporary obstruction from the roadway
✔✔Enhance the safety of ________ and _________. Minimize _________ delay
through traffic control. - ✔✔1. Responders
2. Motorists
3. Motorists
✔✔Move Over Law - ✔✔Require drivers approaching a scene where emergency
responders are present to either change lanes when possible or reduce vehicle speed
✔✔Driver Removal Laws - ✔✔1. Fender bender, move it, steer it, clear it.
2. Require motorists involved in minor crash where there are no serious injuries and the
vehicle can be driven to move their vehicles out of the travel lanes
✔✔55-10-117 - ✔✔Driver Removal Laws
✔✔Authority Removal Laws - ✔✔Provide authority and immunity from liability in general
for designated public agencies to remove vehicles or spilled cargo from the roadway
✔✔MUTCD - ✔✔Standards for traffic and roadway laws
✔✔3 Notification Scene and Size Up - ✔✔1. Detection
2. Verification
3. Notification
✔✔1. Detection - ✔✔Discovery of an incident and the first step in TIM process, incident
detection can be a call from the parties involved in the incident a call from a passing
motorists or responders
✔✔2. Verification - ✔✔Involves collecting as much information as possible from the
individuals reporting the incident including the exact location the make, model, and color
of the involved vehicles and a call back number (type of severity, physical location,
number of vehicles involved, lanes affected)
✔✔3. Notification - ✔✔Occurs when the communications center dispatches the
appropriate response
, ✔✔Communication - ✔✔Accurate clear communication among all disciplines involved in
TIM means responders
✔✔How many dispatch centers are across the state? - ✔✔4
✔✔Telecommunicators are often the first to be alerted to an incident and have three
main responsibilities. - ✔✔1. Providing basic assessment of the situation
2. Dispatching an appropriate response based on their knowledge of available
resources
3. Ask the party to identify the specific geographic location of the incident referencing
highway mile markers
✔✔3 ways to monitor traffic conditions - ✔✔1. Closed circuit television
2. Roadway detectors and congestion maps
3. Public safety contacts via phone and/or computer aided dispatch
✔✔Initial Windshield Size Up - ✔✔Upon first arriving on scene, initial windshield size up
report should be provided
✔✔Progress reports - ✔✔Detailed size up should be 15 minutes
✔✔Duration Classifications
1. Minor ______ minutes
2. Intermediate ________ minutes to ____ hours
3. Major over _______ hours - ✔✔1. 30 minutes
2. 30 minutes - 2 hours
3. 2 hours
✔✔Safe Vehicle Positioning. _______ it and ______ it. - ✔✔1. Move
2. Work
✔✔What is the MUTCD - ✔✔Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and
Highways defines the standards used by road managers nationwide to install and
maintain traffic control devices on all public streets, highways, bikeways, and private
roads open to public travel.
✔✔Closing one lane of a three lane freeway reduces the capacity of the roadway by
_____% - ✔✔51%
✔✔Move It - ✔✔Refers to moving vehicles involved in an incident to a safer location
before being worked
✔✔Work It - ✔✔Refers to a situation where either vehicles involved cannot be moved
before being worked
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Response Activities - ✔✔Scene safety, command responsibilities, traffic
management
✔✔Safe and quick clearance definition - ✔✔Practice of rapidly, safely and aggressively
removing temporary obstruction from the roadway
✔✔Enhance the safety of ________ and _________. Minimize _________ delay
through traffic control. - ✔✔1. Responders
2. Motorists
3. Motorists
✔✔Move Over Law - ✔✔Require drivers approaching a scene where emergency
responders are present to either change lanes when possible or reduce vehicle speed
✔✔Driver Removal Laws - ✔✔1. Fender bender, move it, steer it, clear it.
2. Require motorists involved in minor crash where there are no serious injuries and the
vehicle can be driven to move their vehicles out of the travel lanes
✔✔55-10-117 - ✔✔Driver Removal Laws
✔✔Authority Removal Laws - ✔✔Provide authority and immunity from liability in general
for designated public agencies to remove vehicles or spilled cargo from the roadway
✔✔MUTCD - ✔✔Standards for traffic and roadway laws
✔✔3 Notification Scene and Size Up - ✔✔1. Detection
2. Verification
3. Notification
✔✔1. Detection - ✔✔Discovery of an incident and the first step in TIM process, incident
detection can be a call from the parties involved in the incident a call from a passing
motorists or responders
✔✔2. Verification - ✔✔Involves collecting as much information as possible from the
individuals reporting the incident including the exact location the make, model, and color
of the involved vehicles and a call back number (type of severity, physical location,
number of vehicles involved, lanes affected)
✔✔3. Notification - ✔✔Occurs when the communications center dispatches the
appropriate response
, ✔✔Communication - ✔✔Accurate clear communication among all disciplines involved in
TIM means responders
✔✔How many dispatch centers are across the state? - ✔✔4
✔✔Telecommunicators are often the first to be alerted to an incident and have three
main responsibilities. - ✔✔1. Providing basic assessment of the situation
2. Dispatching an appropriate response based on their knowledge of available
resources
3. Ask the party to identify the specific geographic location of the incident referencing
highway mile markers
✔✔3 ways to monitor traffic conditions - ✔✔1. Closed circuit television
2. Roadway detectors and congestion maps
3. Public safety contacts via phone and/or computer aided dispatch
✔✔Initial Windshield Size Up - ✔✔Upon first arriving on scene, initial windshield size up
report should be provided
✔✔Progress reports - ✔✔Detailed size up should be 15 minutes
✔✔Duration Classifications
1. Minor ______ minutes
2. Intermediate ________ minutes to ____ hours
3. Major over _______ hours - ✔✔1. 30 minutes
2. 30 minutes - 2 hours
3. 2 hours
✔✔Safe Vehicle Positioning. _______ it and ______ it. - ✔✔1. Move
2. Work
✔✔What is the MUTCD - ✔✔Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and
Highways defines the standards used by road managers nationwide to install and
maintain traffic control devices on all public streets, highways, bikeways, and private
roads open to public travel.
✔✔Closing one lane of a three lane freeway reduces the capacity of the roadway by
_____% - ✔✔51%
✔✔Move It - ✔✔Refers to moving vehicles involved in an incident to a safer location
before being worked
✔✔Work It - ✔✔Refers to a situation where either vehicles involved cannot be moved
before being worked
