SKETCH METHODS FOR ESTIMATING INCIDENT-RELATED IMPACTS: USER'S GUIDE

This document serves as a stand-alone guide for planners to use in applying the methodology for studying incident impacts and the effects of incident management strategies. It reformats material found in the Final Report in a more easily followed procedure for actual applications, and also provides an example of how the methodology is applied to a freeway corridor. Given the complexity of the equations for predicting delay, it is recommended that planners imbed them in a spreadsheet or other suitable software and that they be checked thoroughly before they are applied. Input data can be developed off-line. An example of a spreadsheet format is presented as the tables in Chapter 4.0 for guidance.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Harry Cohen also helped to prepare this guide.
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

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  Cambridge Systematics, Incorporated

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  Science Applications International Corporation

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• Publication Date: 1998-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 53 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Equations; Estimating; Forecasting; Freeways; Guidelines; Highway traffic control; Impacts; Incident management; Methodology; Sketch planning; Traffic delays
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00963118
• Record Type: Publication
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-95-00060
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 12 2003 12:00AM