Enhancing the Value of an Incidents Database with an Interactive Visualization Tool

The growing capabilities of computational tools and the advent of multiple data providing systems have increased the needs and ability to process large sets of microscopic data. Since the data are not directly suited for analysis or modeling, they are often stocked without further question, while they could shine a new light on critical traffic phenomena such as congestion. This research is a spin-off of a project on the modelling of travel time reliability on highway corridors. The project relies on floating cars data but has also led to the exploration of historical incidents datasets that required various pre-processing steps. A visualization tool was developed using Microsoft Excel in an innovative way. This paper reports on the development of this tool that provides some insight into the analytical potentialities of the incident databases. Four years of data are examined and converted into usable information through cross-examination and interactivity.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1061/41167(398)115
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2011 ASCE
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Morency, Catherine
  • Trepanier, Martin
  • Saunier, Nicolas
  • Akelaguelo, Jean-Philippe
• Conference:
  • First Congress of Transportation and Development Institute (TDI)
  • Location: Chicago IL, United States
  • Date: 2011-3-13 to 2011-3-16
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 1206-1215
• Monograph Title: Transportation and Development Institute Congress 2011 : Integrated Transportation and Development for a Better Tomorrow

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Databases; Floating car data; Highway corridors; Highways; Information processing; Microscopic traffic flow; Traffic congestion; Traffic models; Travel time; Visualization
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01347161
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784411674
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Aug 8 2011 2:08PM