Roadway Incident Manual

  1. Define advanced warning
    Notification procedures that advise approaching motorists to transition from normal driving status to that required by the temporary emergency traffic control measures ahead of them
  2. Define Block
    Positing a FD apparatus on an angle to the lanes of traffic creating a physical barrier between upstream traffic and the work area
  3. Define Buffer Space
    The distance or space between personnel and vehicles in the protected work area and nearby moving traffic
  4. Define Incident Space
    The protected work area
  5. Define Taper
    The action of merging several lanes into fewer lanes
  6. Define Transition Zone
    The lanes of a roadway within which approaching motorists change their speed and position to comply with traffic control measures
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Roadway Incident Manual
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traffic manual
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