ALTERNATE ROUTE PLANNING: SUCCESSFUL INCIDENT TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

A congestion-causing freeway incident causes the capacity-demand relation to go out of balance. The solutions to such incidents are to restore the temporarily reduced capacity as soon as possible and to limit demand at the incident by diverting traffic. This paper discusses the alternate route planning procedure being developed in southern California. As part of the preplanning effort, information on all segments of the freeways was gathered and mapped. The main elements of the maps are discussed, and a sample map is presented. The two concepts used in implementing alternate route planning are the on-site command post and the incident response team. These are discussed as they relate to incident management.

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  • Presented at the 7th Summer Mtg. of TRB in cooperation with Florida DOT, Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 5-7, 1974. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board (TRB)

  Washington, DC   
• Authors:
  • Roper, David H
  • Murphy, Richard J
  • Zimowski, Robert F
• Conference:
  • 7th Summer Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Jacksonville Florida, United States
  • Date: 1974-8-5 to 1974-8-7
• Publication Date: 1975

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 141-144
• Monograph Title: Better use of existing transportation facilities
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 153
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Concrete pavements; Detours; Freeways; Highway capacity; Information management; Information, data, and knowledge; Management; Maps; Pavement design; Planning; Traffic congestion; Traffic control; Traffic diversion
• Old TRIS Terms: Freeway capacity
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00099507
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 5 1975 12:00AM