Review of Literature and Practices for Incident Management Programs
The project team examined project evaluations, best practice summaries, and synthesis documents, and derived a summary of key elements of programs to speed the time to find and clear stalled vehicles and crashes from freeway shoulders and main lanes. The key questions about these programs (known generically as incident management) include the following: Who operates the program? What are the key equipment and procedural elements? How is the program funded? How much of the road network is covered and for what times/days? What are the incident management program institutional arrangements and interjurisdictional operating practice memoranda? What are the benefits and costs? This literature review summarizes key practice elements that describe a comprehensive traffic incident management (TIM) program and then compares those characteristics to the significant Texas programs. The goal is to describe the current state of the practice on a few key items as the beginning point of discussion about any additional public policy guidance or legislation needs.
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Corporate Authors:
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX United States 77843-3135 -
Authors:
- Lomax, Tim
- Simcic, Lauren
- Publication Date: 2016-6
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Edition: Technical Report
- Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 50p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Benefits; Best practices; Costs; Financing; Incident management; Literature reviews; State of the practice; Traffic incidents
- Geographic Terms: Texas
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01608552
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: PRC 15-56 T
- Files: NTL, TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 29 2016 11:10AM