• perception and understanding both the nature and magnitude of a particular congestion and safety problem.
• merging different operational strategies, policies, and systems into a comprehensive program.
• Using technology, detection and verification systems, communication links, traffic operations centers, motorist information systems, and information sharing among systems.
• Implementing a high degree of interagency coordination and cooperation to provide emergency services and to restore accident scenes to normal operation in the shortest possible time.
• Deploying and implementing highly sensitive and sometimes controversial management strategies, such as ramp meters and high-occupancy lanes.
• Managing extremely popular services such as tow trucks and patrols to rapidly remove disabled vehicles from freeways.
Freeway traffic management is all of this and more. Its components are aimed at providing some level of relief from congestion, improving safety and mobility for the traveling public, and meeting other related objectives. Strategies and technologies associated with freeway management and operations are summarized below