Study of Operational and Safety Impacts of Disabled and Abandoned Vehicles on FDOT Roadways

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• Creators:
  Al-Deek, Haitham ; Sandt, Adrian ; McCombs, John ; Carrick, Grady ; Cornelison, Erik ; Ginsberg, Eric ; Lopez Sanchez, Angel ; Dollman, Daniel ; Chudgar, Vishay
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Central Florida. Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  Florida Department of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Crashes
  • Highway operations
  • Incident management
  • Literature reviews
  • Surveys
  • Traffic safety
  • Waze
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida ; United States
• Edition:
  Final Report January 2021 – September 2022
• Corporate Publisher:
  Florida Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  Disabled and abandoned vehicles (DAVs) are a common occurrence on Florida roadways. This research focused on evaluating the operational and safety impacts of DAVs and identifying and evaluating methods to reduce these impacts. A comprehensive literature review showed that previous studies focused on DAV response (including the use of innovative towing programs), but not DAV impacts. The responses to a developed national survey on DAVs indicated that abandoned vehicles are more common in other states than in Florida and that improving towing procedures and equipment could reduce the impacts of these events.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  BDV24-977-37
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/70404/dot_70404_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.03 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:da765bbb95195f1bf88598ec484f8228f11abaf19673856dd249fc6798d9bb42aa7e8e0bf5a30d7f12a647bdb19a8ae9db01bf43e5516bf1fa54005ffd8c8cbe