ARCHIVING REAL TIME INCIDENT DATA : AN ADUS APPLICATION IN METRO ATLANTA AREA

As an example of the newly established ITS Archive Data User Service (ADUS), this study utilizes information technologies to archive incident data collected by NAVIGATOR, Georgia's ITS system, which makes it feasible to incorporate sophisticated speed contour and incident mappings to unveil the possible causal factors of secondary accidents. This study brought out a new definition of secondary accidents: an accident is a secondary accident if it falls in the congested contour area caused by the initial incident. Preliminary findings in this study demonstrated the suitability and usability of such a definition. State Department of Transportation and local transportation agencies could exploit the possible benefit of eliminating all the secondary accidents to enhance the support for the deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 2002. Transportation Research Board, Washington DC. Remarks: Paper 02-3738 prepared for presentation at the 81st annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C. January 2002. Format: CD ROM
• Corporate Authors:

  Jamiat al-Imarat al-Arabiyah al-Muttahidah

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  University of California, Berkeley

  California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
  Richmond, CA  United States  94804-4648

  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  Department of Civil Engineering, 500 Pillsbury Drive, SE
  Minneapolis, MN  United States  55455

  University of California, Irvine

  Institute of Transportation Studies
  4000 Anteater Instruction and Research Building
  Irvine, CA  United States  92697

  Purdue University

  Joint Transportation Research Program
  West Lafayette, IN  United States  47907-2051

  Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

  1005 North Glebe Road
  Arlington, VA  United States  22201

  Texas Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System, 3135 TAMU
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3135

  CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY

  CHICAGO, IL  United States 

  University of Utah, Salt Lake City

  Utah Traffic Laboratory, 122 S Central Campus Drive
  Salt Lake City, UT  United States  84112

  University of Toronto

  Intelligent Transportation Systems Center
  Toronto, Ontario  Canada 

  University of Hawaii, Manoa

  Department of Civil Engineering, 2540 Dole Street, Holmes Hall 383
  Honolulu, HI  United States  96822
• Authors:
  • Huang, Weimin
  • Leonard, John
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 81st Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington D.C.
  • Date: 2002-1-13 to 2002-1-17
• Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 11 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashes; Databases; Incident management; Information processing
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00920302
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH
• Created Date: Mar 1 2002 12:00AM