Incident Management

RISC

The Rapid Incident Scene Clearance (RISC) Program is expediting the removal of large vehicle crashes that affect our highways along Miami-Dade County.

The RISC program offers financial incentives to specialized companies to respond to and provide complete clearance of incidents such as large vehicle crashes, rollovers and cargo spills within a specified period of time.

Operational staff at the SunGuide® Transportation Management Center (TMC) coordinate with the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) to activate the program accordingly to restore highway capacity in shorter time frames than they would with regular towing and recovery services

Once the decision to activate RISC is made, the following procedures are followed:

• The TMC notifies the appropriate RISC contractor to mobilize and provide the details and estimated time of arrival to FHP.


• The RISC contractor has 60 minutes to arrive on scene with the required equipment.


• Once given a "notice to proceed" by the FHP Trooper on scene, the RISC contractor has 90 minutes to "open all travel lanes" to traffic.

District Six commenced RISC operations on July 2009.

The RISC Program provides services along Interstates 75, 95, 195, 395, the MacCarthur Causway, State Road 826/Palmetto Expressway, SR 997/Krome Avenue and U.S. 27/Okeechobee Road on a 24 hours per day, 7 days per week basis.