Using detector data to identify and examine crashes and incidents on freeways.

Details

• Alternative Title:
  USDOT Region V Regional University Transportation Center Final Report
• Creators:
  Savolainen, Peter T. ; Ghosh, Indrajit
• Corporate Creators:
  NEXTRANS Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Accident Data Accident Investigation Incident Detection Incident Management Traffic Incidents
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Detroit (Michigan)
• Corporate Publisher:
  NEXTRANS Center (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  Traffic incidents, such as crashes and vehicular breakdowns, result in reductions in roadway capacity and
  
  are the primary cause of non-recurrent congestion in urban areas. In addition to contributing to
  
  congestion and delay, incidents adversely affect the safety of other motorists, as well as first responders.
  
  To address these issues, transportation agencies have initiated incident management programs aimed at
  
  detecting and responding to incidents in order to restore freeways to full capacity by clearing the incident
  
  scene as soon as possible. Such programs play an important role in the operation of the transportation
  
  system and require collaboration and efficient communication among various agencies, including fire and
  
  rescue, police, towing and recovery, transportation engineers, and freeway service patrols. In the Detroit
  
  metropolitan area, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) operates a Freeway Courtesy
  
  Patrol (FCP) program as part of its freeway incident management program from the Michigan Intelligent
  
  Transportation Systems (MITS) Center in downtown Detroit. As a part of its operations, the MITS
  
  Center maintains a series of databases that detail freeway operations, as well as the activities of the FCP.
  
  However, to date these databases have been maintained independently of one another and no research has
  
  examined the interrelationships between freeway operations and the services of the FCP. This report
  
  details the activities from the first year of a two-year study aimed at analyzing operations and incident
  
  response on the Detroit freeway network.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  NEXTRANS Project No. 051WY02
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8c993d760ecdc8ea7764b6aa9f284bc3df79ab4c4abf0136715583ec8b475331
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/20575/dot_20575_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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