Florida Department of Transportation - District 6 Volume 10 • Issue 1 • October 2017

District Six Prepares for Hurricane Irma imize disruptions to operations. Due to the ini- tial forecasts showing an initial Category Five storm directly impacting Miami, TMC manage- ment developed a plan to temporarily relocate key staff to a remote facility for continuation of operations. They executed this plan as a pre- caution before Irma reached landfall in Mon- roe County as a Category Four. Essential staff traveled to the Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise TMC near Orlando to set up operations and avoid downtime once the Miami TMC closed.

The combination of these steps allowed The District Six SunGuide Transportation The team reviewed this contingency plan the team to remain operational through- Management Center (TMC) activated and met daily to achieve this goal in the days out the storm and its aftermath. Traffic op- its Hurricane Response Action Plan before the storm. Key staff members from erators were able to monitor the roadways (HRAP) as Hurricane Irma made its way Operations, Maintenance, IT and Facilities went and dispatch incident management resourc- to Monroe and Miami-Dade counties. through a series of punch list items to secure es when conditions permitted. Staff served the preparedness of their respective sections. as the point of contact for partner agencies The goal of the HRAP is to ensure the and served as the conduit of information for continuity of the program’s traffic management IT tested the network’s redundancy capabili- the District’s Emergency Operations Cen- operations during and after a major storm. ties to safeguard system connection and min- ter, first responders and local municipalities. District Six Road Rangers Support Monroe County During Hurricane Irma WHAT’S NEW? ‣‣FDOT District Six Hosts 95 The District Six TMC extended their Express Safety Press Conference incident management services to ‣‣District Six Assists in Eradication worked to keep traffic moving safely Monroe County to assist with evacuations of New World Screwworm in the Roadand efficientlyRangers returned during thisto the critical area time.after and recovery efforts before and after Florida Keys the storm to assist Monroe County Sheriff’s Hurricane Irma’s arrival in South Florida. ‣‣FDOT Secretary Mike Dew Visits the SunGuide TMC Road Rangers were dispatched to cover (FHP) along US-1. Their service has worked Office (MCSO) and Florida Highway Patrol portions of US-1 to promote mobility to assist the county in their recovery UPCOMING EVENTS during the mandatory evacuation prior efforts and is being provided seven ‣‣ Response Week - November 13- to the storm’s landfall. They helped days a week from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. National Traffic Incident with motorist assistance efforts and 17 disabled vehicle relocation which

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Quarterly Statistics (July 1, 2017 - September 30, 2017) RISC STATS District Six implemented the Rapid Incident Scene Clearance (RISC) Program in 2009 to reduce the impact

events along our roadways. 13,604 08:44* 26:33 Theof large-scale program covers:traffic Interstates (mm:ss) (mm:ss) 75, 95, 195, 395, State Total TMC Average Road Average Travel Road 826, Krome Avenue, Events Managed Ranger Response Lane Blockage Okeechobee Road and the MacArthur Causeway. LANE BLOCKAGE EVENTS, AVERAGE RESPONSE** ‣‣RISC activations in Fiscal Year 600 15:00 550 (FY) 17/18 Quarter 1 = 1 event 500 450 400 10:00 ‣‣Average Arrival Time of RISC 350 300 Time Vendors = 56 minutes Events 250 200 05:00 ‣‣Average Travel Lane Clearance 150 100 Blockage Events Time = 29 minutes 50 0 00:00 Average Response ‣‣Average Total Incident Clearance Time = 211 minutes

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QUARTERLY DMS USAGE BY TYPE For more information on FDOT District Six and its incident man- 6,067 agement programs, be sure to visit SunGuide.info. FDOT D6 Incidents 34,963 Other Agency Incidents * For events not detected by a 60,657 Road Ranger. Construction 34,546 Safety Vehicle Alerts based only on travel lane blockage events** The figuresper roadway. presented are

*** I-75 is dispatch-only for 6,996 Road Rangers

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