A Guidebook for Effective Use of Incident Data at Texas Transportation Management Centers

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Project Title: Incorporating Historical Incident Data Into Incident Detection and Performance Measures at Transportation Management Centers
• Creators:
  Songchitruksa, Praprut ; Balke, Kevin ; Zeng, Xiaosi ; Chu, Chi-Leung ; Zhang, Yunlong
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Technology Implementation Office ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Traffic control centers
  • Incident management
  • Crash data
  • Data collection
  • Performance measurement
  • Freeway operations
  • Highways
  • Operations and Traffic Management
  • I73: Traffic Control
  • Clearance time (Traffic incidents)
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-09/0-5485-P2
• Resource Type:
  Manual
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Texas
• Edition:
  Product; Sept. 2006-Aug. 2008
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Technology Implementation Office
• Description:
  This guidebook provides methodologies and procedures for using incident data collected at Texas transportation management centers (TMCs) to perform two types of analysis - evaluation/planning analysis and predictive analysis. For the evaluation/planning analysis, this guidebook provides (1) guidelines for reporting incident characteristics, (2) methods for analyzing hot spots, (3) methodologies for estimating incident impacts, and (4) guidelines and procedures for calculating performance measures. For predictive analysis, this guidebook describes (1) methodologies for predicting incident duration using incident characteristics and (2) methodologies for predicting incident-induced congestion clearance time using combined historical and real-time traffic data. Examples of applications and results from the methodologies and procedures described are provided throughout this guidebook.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  Project 0-5485
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/37051/dot_37051_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.23 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:66765eb3f7eb31a00dc7ccae8c2418b70b18dfed4f7aa82ab7ca0cbaca60f6ca