DEVELOPING THE SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN INCIDENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM: AN APPLICATION OF THE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITS) PLANNING PROCESS

Incidents, non-recurring events on roadways, can cause significant congestion and delay to the motoring public. Incident Management can be broadly defined as the range of activities involved in the detection, response to, and clearance of roadway incidents. More specifically, incident management is the coordinated, preplanned use of both human and technological resources to alert motorists and restore the roadway to normal operating conditions. Incident Management can be effectively improved and enhanced through the application of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The Southeastern Wisconsin Incident Management (SWIM) program is an initiative sponsored by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) and facilitated by a team of consultants lead by the HNTB Corporation. This paper discusses how the ITS Planning and Project Deployment Process established by the Federal Highway System (FHWA) was used as a tool to develop a process for the SWIM program plan. An overview of the ITS Planning and Project Deployment Process is described along with the approach used to "customize" the process for incident management plan development. Specific activities relating to the SWIM program development process are discussed including: outreach and consensus building; existing conditions inventory; needs identification; immediate deployment activities; and, implementation and evaluation of a "blueprint" for continuing program. Recommendations are also provided to those agencies contemplating using the ITS Planning Process for an incident management program.

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  ITS America

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• Authors:
  • Cyra, S J
  • Stilp, K A
• Conference:
  • Intelligent Transportation: Realizing the Future. Abstracts of the Third World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: Orlando, Florida
  • Date: 1996-10-14 to 1996-10-18
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: n.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Deployment; Intelligent transportation systems; Management; Planning; Traffic incidents
• Uncontrolled Terms: Incidents
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00741677
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 27 1997 12:00AM