Incident Characteristics and Impact on Freeway Traffic
Incident Characteristics and Impact on Freeway Traffic

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Published: 2004

Total Pages: 206

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Transportation management centers (TMCs) generate and archive enormous amounts of data. Many applications of archived intelligent transportation system (ITS) data nationwide, including Texas, address transportation planning needs. As the number of applications of archived ITS data increases, interest is growing in identifying areas where archived ITS data could result in more effective TMC operations. One area of interest is how to use archived ITS data to help improve incident management practices. Using geographic information system (GIS), traffic engineering, and statistical analysis techniques, this report describes procedures to determine patterns in the spatial and temporal distribution of incidents along freeway corridors. The report describes current incident detection and data archival at several Texas TMCs, a process to develop a data model and geodatabase of ITS equipment and archived ITS data using a variety of data sources at TransGuide, a process to determine patterns in the spatial and temporal distribution of freeway incidents in San Antonio, a procedure to calculate the impact of incidents on traffic conditions, and recommendations for implementation of the research findings.

Traffic Incident Management Handbook
Traffic Incident Management Handbook

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Published: 2000

Total Pages: 176

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Intended to assist agencies responsible for incident management activities on public roadways to improve their programs and operations.Organized into three major sections: Introduction to incident management; organizing, planning, designing and implementing an incident management program; operational and technical approaches to improving the incident management process.

Generation and Assessment of Incident Management Strategies: Analysis of freeway incidents in the Seattle area
Generation and Assessment of Incident Management Strategies: Analysis of freeway incidents in the Seattle area

Author: Fred L. Mannering

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Published: 1990

Total Pages: 98

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Report / by Fred Mannering [and others] -- v. 1. Management, surveillance, control, and evaluation of freeway incidents : a review of existing literature / by Bryan Jones, Fred Mannering --v. 2. Analysis of freeway incidents in the Seattle area / by Bryan Jones [and others] -- v. 3. Seattle-area incident impact analysis : Microcomputer traffic simulation results / by Dan H. Garrison, Fred Mannering, Brad Sebranke -- v. 4. Seattle-area incident management : assessment and recommendations / by Fred Mannering, Bryan Jones, Brad Sebranke.

Highway and Traffic Safety
Highway and Traffic Safety

Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board

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Published: 2000

Total Pages: 148

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Transportation Research Record contains the following papers: Method for identifying factors contributing to driver-injury severity in traffic crashes (Chen, WH and Jovanis, PP); Crash- and injury-outcome multipliers (Kim, K); Guidelines for identification of hazardous highway curves (Persaud, B, Retting, RA and Lyon, C); Tools to identify safety issues for a corridor safety-improvement program (Breyer, JP); Prediction of risk of wet-pavement accidents : fuzzy logic model (Xiao, J, Kulakowski, BT and El-Gindy, M); Analysis of accident-reduction factors on California state highways (Hanley, KE, Gibby, AR and Ferrara, T); Injury effects of rollovers and events sequence in single-vehicle crashes (Krull, KA, Khattack, AJ and Council, FM); Analytical modeling of driver-guidance schemes with flow variability considerations (Kaysi, I and Ail, NH); Evaluating the effectiveness of Norway's speak out! road safety campaign : The logic of causal inference in road safety evaluation studies (Elvik, R); Effect of speed, flow, and geometric characteristics on crash frequency for two-lane highways (Garber, NJ and Ehrhart, AA); Development of a relational accident database management system for Mexican federal roads (Mendoza, A, Uribe, A, Gil, GZ and Mayoral, E); Estimating traffic accident rates while accounting for traffic-volume estimation error : a Gibbs sampling approach (Davis, GA); Accident prediction models with and without trend : application of the generalized estimating equations procedure (Lord, D and Persaud, BN); Examination of methods that adjust observed traffic volumes on a network (Kikuchi, S, Miljkovic, D and van Zuylen, HJ); Day-to-day travel-time trends and travel-time prediction form loop-detector data (Kwon, JK, Coifman, B and Bickel, P); Heuristic vehicle classification using inductive signatures on freeways (Sun, C and Ritchie, SG).