Quick Clearance of Major Traffic Incidents
This project investigates the causes of long clearance times of major traffic incidents in California and proposes ways to reduce major incident clearance times. Major incidents are defined as those taking 30 minutes or more to clear. The research team examined regional sources or causes of incident clearance delay, identified appropriate responsive traffic incident management (TIM) tools and strategies shown to be successful in reducing incident clearance times, and provided recommendations for improving ongoing performance measurement to support continuous improvement in safe, quick incident clearance.
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Corporate Authors:
Texas A&M University, College Station
Texas Transportation Institute
College Station, TX United States 77843-3135Texas Transportation Institute
Texas A&M University System
110 North Davis Drive, Suite 101
Arlington, TX United States 76013University of California, Berkeley
Institute of Transportation Studies
McLaughlin Hall
Berkeley, CA United States 94720University of California, Berkeley
California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
Richmond, CA United States 94804-4648 -
Authors:
- Balke, Kevin
- Seeherman, Joshua
- Skabardonis, Alexander
- Publication Date: 2014-9
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Edition: Final Report
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 153p
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Serial:
- PATH Research Report
- Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
- ISSN: 1055-1425
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Databases; Incident management; Performance measurement; Strategic planning
- Geographic Terms: California
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01542164
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
- Report/Paper Numbers: UCB-ITS-PRR-2014-07, CA15-2245
- Contract Numbers: 65A0422
- Files: CALTRANS, TRIS, ATRI, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Oct 29 2014 11:25AM