TRIP

Georgia's
Towing and Recovery Incentive Program (TRIP)

Reducing the impact of commercial vehicle incidents in Atlanta!

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TRIP

Updates!

>> TRIP wins ITS Georgia 2008 Project of Significance award!

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What is TRIP?
Georgia’s Towing and Recovery Incentive Program (TRIP) was implemented in metro Atlanta to facilitate improved management of large-scale commercial vehicle incidents. These large-scale incidents can significantly affect traffic in the region, causing long motorist delays, polluting the air, and creating safety hazards. TRIP encourages the quick, safe clearance of these incidents by paying performance incentives to highly-skilled, TRIP-certified towing and recovery companies for clearing wrecks within established clearance goals.

TRIP is still accepting applications from qualified companies.
Click here for the application and applicant instructions.

TRIP Event Time Savings TRIP Activations

Figure 1: Comparison of Average Time until Roadway Clearance was achieved for 2007 through 2009.
-Note all activation, arrival, notice to proceed, and clearance times were rounded to the nearest minute.
- Source: 2007 Traffic Management Center (TMC) GA Navigator Log, 2007 Highway Emergency Response Operator (HERO) Log, 2008 TMC TRIP Incident Log, and 2009 TMC TRIP Incident Log

From 1/1/09-9/3/09: 41 TRIP incidents occurred during calendar year 2009. Of the 41 incidents only 33 of the incidents fell within one standard deviation of the average.

From 1/1/08-12/31/08: 59 TRIP incidents occurred of them 3 were disregarded due to inaccurate time keeping and 4 were disregarded because the incident was a roll out (a whole incident worth of data was not collected). This reduces the number of incidents to perform analysis on to 52 incidents. Of the 52 incidents only 46 of the incidents fell within one standard deviation of the average.

From 1/1/07-9/12/07: 27 Potential TRIP incidents occurred. Of the 27 incidents only 21 of the incidents fell within one standard deviation of the average.

Current comparison chart from 2007 through 2009

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