Attendance (from Sign-In Roster).

Alisoun Moore	Ivor Knight	Roy Courtney
Ann Lorscheider	Jim Mona	Stephen Meer
Bob Barrett	John Corbin	Tom Kurihara
Bob Gojanovich	John Lathrop
Bob Reiss	Kamal Karna
Brian Fariello	Ken Brooke
David Kelley	Kurt Aufschneider
Ed Mark	Mike Ogden
Eva Lerner-Lam	Mike Schagrin
Greg Lind	Ron Miner

Called to order at 1600, 14 Aug; reconvened 1000 15 Aug

Appproval of Minutes:
No previous minutes, as this is the initial meeting of the Working Group

Approval of Agenda:
The agenda was followed as shown in the handout.

Committee Reports: Committees are being formed. No reports submitted yet.

Old Business: No old business, as this is the initial meeting of the working group.

New Business:

ftp to www.grouper.ieee.org/uploads (one could, for instance, use the "Upload File" item under the "File" menu of one's Netscape 4.0 browser.)
email Ken Brooke and the IEEE site administrator, notifying them of the file names and that they are for the SCC32 directory.

Technical Material:
Ken Brooke provided the following examples of previous data element standarization work

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration EMS Division:
80 EMS Data Points and their Definitions (def.zip, 43K, 01/03/96)
This document contains the 80 EMS data points and their definitions as agreed upon by at the August 1993 Uniform Pre-Hospital Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Data Conference sponsored by the National Traffic Safety Administration. The documents is compressed to 43 K and when extracted is 215K and is 72 pages in Word Perfect format.
Federal Bureau of Inestigation:
National Incident-Based Reporting System, Volume 1:
Data Collection Guidelines
National Incident-Based Reporting System, Volume 2:
Data Submission Specifications
National Incident-Based Reporting System, Volume 3:
Approaches to Implementing an Incident-Based Reporting System
Uniform Crime Reporting Handbook
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration:
Incident Command System forms
United States Coast Guard National Response Center:
Incident Report Form
Spill Reporting Information

1. 1. Traffic Incident: An event or occurrence that disrupts or distorts the flow of traffic on the highway system.
2. 2. Traffic Incident Management: The coordinated application of human and technological resources to minimizing impacts of traffic incidents and to fully utilizing available highway capacity.
3. 3. Incident Management: Unified, coordinated, preplanned response. Best use of all resources and personnel, minimizing impacts.
4. 4. Prioritized Goals:

I. Preservation of human life (safety of public responders)
II. Restoration of flow (secondary - diversion)
III. Restoration/salvage of property.
5. 5. Incident: Planned vs unplanned. A disruption or distortion of flow. Scale of severity from minor (a piece of retread one foot from edge line) to major (declared state of emergency, as from a hurricane).
6. 6. Transportation Incident: Any event of a non-recurring nature which interrupts the normal movement of traffic, goods or services on the transportation system.
7. 7. Transportation Incident Management: The planned response, or reaction, to mitigate an event which has occurred on the transportation system. There are various levels of incident management. It can be the actions of one person or the coordinated response of multiple agencies.
8. 8. Incident Management: An event requiring a coordinated response from operations and participating agencies with equipment and/or human resources to minimize the disruption to the traveling public and provide appropriate emergency response in the most timely, efficient manner possible.
9. 9. Incident Management: The coordination/allocation of technology, agencies, equipment and manpower to detect, respond, and clear roadway incidents.
10. 10. IACP Critical Incident: ìAny natural or man-made event, civil disturbance, or any other occurrence of unusual or severe nature which threatens to cause or causes the loss of life or injury to citizens and/or sever damage to property and requires extraordinary measures to protect lives, meet human needs, and achieve recovery.î
11. 11. NFPA Emergency Incident: ìAny situation to which the fire department responds to deliver emergency services, including rescue, fire suppression, emergency medical care, special operations, and other forms of hazard control and mitigation.î

Incident Management Schedule:

• Next IM Working Group Meeting: 29 Sep 97, at the Sheraton Hotel in Reston, VA; in conjunction with the ITSA/IEEE/SAE Mayday & Incident Management Workshop
• Joint SAE/IEEE Workshop #1 on Incident Management, 30 Sep - 1 Oct, at the Sheraton Hotel in Reston, VA
• IEEE IM Workshop #2, Mid-Nov 97, TBD
• IEEE IM Workshop #3, Mid-March 98, West Coast

Respectfully submitted,

Ken Brooke