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ITEMTable 6-25Alternate Route Plan Development ConsiderationsCONSIDERATIONAlternate Route Selection• Stakeholder Roles and Coordination• Advance planning stakeholders and stakeholders involved in alternateroute deployment• Interagency agreements for advance planning and/or operations• Types of Alternate Routes• Freeway, street, and toll facility• Secondary alternate routes• Inventory Potential AlternateRoutes• Access, capacity, vehicle restrictions, traffic control, backgroundtraffic, pavement conditions, road geometrics, percentage of heavyvehicles, transit accommodation, and available surveillance• Considerations in rural, urban, and metropolitan areas• Alternate Route Evaluation• Capacity analysis and modeling• Traffic signal timing optimization• Alternate Route Selection Criteria • Road user and community impacts• Alternate Route Plan MapAlternate Route Plan Development• Incident location limits, direction of routed traffic, ramp/street closures,traffic control resources, alternate route distance and capacity,alternate route regulations and restrictions, and emergency servicestations• Traffic Control Requirements • Traffic control officers, temporary signs, and barricades• Criteria for Alternate Route PlanDeployment• Incident duration, number of lanes blocked, time of day, etc.• Deployment Operations Plan• Motorist Information Resources• Traffic Management on AlternateRoute• Checklist for field supervisor and communications center supervisorRoad User Accommodation• Pre-trip and en-route• Message sets• Planned media release• Permanent trailblazers• Technology applications6-42