Partnership with police forces incident management Flanders

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Partnership with police forces incident
managementFlanders
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Key components

• Partnership with police forces
• Incident management

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Partnership with police forces

• Integration of police division in the traffic
  centres control room
• Objectives
• Communication between control room and police
  dispatching centres, field units, emergency
  services
• Communication with municipal (traffic) divisions
• Coordination of actions (local, regional)
• Joint validation of source data for traffic
  information
• Activation of deviation routes

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Incident management

• Stakeholders in incident management
• NRA 2 projects
• FAST recovery services
• Deviation routes

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Stakeholders in IM

• Federal state
• Motorway police
• Patrolling
• 999 (100) calls (gt traffic centre)
• Ascertainment accident with injuries
• judiciary
• Ascertainment accident with injuries
• Ambulance services

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Stakeholders in IM

• Regional level (Flanders/NRA)
• Traffic centre (TRAFFIC)
• Monitoring network
• Informing road user
• Data exchange with police forces
• Infrastructure Agency (ROADS)
• Clearance of traffic lanes (FAST recovery
  services)
• Repair contractors

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Stakeholders in IM

• Local level
• Fire brigade
• Fire
• Chemicals
• Coordination on site
• Civil protection
• In case of hazardous goods
• In case of disaster

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FAST recovery services

• Project FAST acronym (Files Aanpakken door
  Snelle Takeling Tackle Traffic jams by Towing
  Quickly)
• Towing vehicles which cant be removed by the
  owner in a reasonable time lap (after a crash)
• Not (always) for vehicles on hard shoulders

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FAST recovery services

• Contractor(s) for selected motorway sections
• Separate car and trucks contracts ( gtlt3.5 T)
• Response time (notification gt on the spot, ready
  for action) 20 min. (cars) 30 min. (trucks)
• Safeguard the incident site first
• Specific requirements for equipment and skills
  (health and safety)
• If necessary in rush hour first tow to hard
  shoulder
• Including lost loads

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FAST recovery services

• Contractor(s) for selected motorway sections
• cars fixed price (result of a tender) to tow up
  to the next exit of the motorway
• Upon owners request price/km from exit on
• Payment by the owner of the car ? (insurance) or
  whoever is responsible for the accident)

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Deviation routes

• From each exit to next entry

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Deviation routes

• From each exit to next entry
• Can be linked

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Deviation routes

• From each exit to next entry
• Can be linked together
• Permanent signposting (letters)

K
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Deviation routes

• From each exit to next entry
• Can be linked together
• Permanent signposting (letters)
• One letter for each direction or destination

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Deviation routes

• From each exit to next entry
• Can be linked together
• Permanent signposting (letters)
• One letter for each direction or destination
• Meaning of each letter given by a variable sign
  when motorway is blocked

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Deviation routes

• From each exit to next entry
• Can be linked together
• Permanent signposting (letters)
• One letter for each direction or destination
• Meaning of each letter given by a variable sign
  when motorway is blocked
• Also used during road works.

For ..,
Follow K
For .,
Follow M
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Deviation routes

• Extra cycle for traffic lights, activated from
  Traffic Centre, to favour additional traffic
  volume
• Help of local police on intersections where
  traffic flow is turning left