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TIMS ALL POSSIBLE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTION
Question : What does SHRP2 stand for?
Correct answer: Strategic Highway Research Program 2
Question : How many areas of focus does SHRP 2 have?
what are they?Correct answer: 4 areas of focus: 1. Safety 2. Renewal 3.Reliability 4. Capacity National Unified
Question : The TIM training program was designed to?
Correct answer: Establish the foundation for and to
promote consistent training of all responders to achieve the three objectives of the TIM goal
Question : What are the three objectives of the TIM
National Unified Goal (NUG)?
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Correct answer: 1. Responder Safety 2. Safe, Quick
Clearance 3. Prompt, Reliable, Interoperable Communications
Question : What are D Drivers?
Correct answer: Drunk Drugged Drowsy Distracted
Dumb
Question : Who suffers the most deaths by being struck
each year?
Correct answer: Tow truck drivers (Average 60)
Question : On average, how many police officers die by
being struck by traffic each year?
Correct answer: Average of 12 per year over 24 years
Question : Crashes that occur within the incident scene or
within the queue or backup, including the opposite direction, resulting from an original incident.
Correct answer: Secondary crashes
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Question : Effective TIM reduces and does what?
Correct answer: Reduces the duration and impacts of
traffic incidents -Improves the safety of motorists, crash victims, and emergency responders.
Question : Goods that have been imported or exported
illegally into the dormitory, and are not allowed? (i.e.testosterone supplements)
Correct answer: Contraband
Question : Goal of TIM is to?
Correct answer: Shorten the time duration between when
the incident occurs, and when traffic resumes as normal.
Question : Three standards that TIM performance
measures?
Correct answer: 1. Roadway clearance time 2. Incident
clearance time 3. Number of secondary crashes
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Question : The practice of rapidly, safely, and
aggressively removing temporary obstructions from the roadway?
Correct answer: Safe, quick clearance
Question : What does safe, quick clearance help to do?
Correct answer: 1. Minimizing exposure to adjacent
passing traffic 2. Reduce the probability of secondary crashes 3. Relieve overall congestion and delay.
Question : Nationally, there are three types of laws that
facilitate TIM, what are they?
Correct answer: 1. Move Over Laws 2. Driver Removal
Laws 3. Authority Removal Laws
Question : 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.