ALTERNATIVE SURVEILLANCE CONCEPTS AND METHODS FOR FREEWAY INCIDENT MANAGEMENT. VOLUME 2. PLANNING AND TRADEOFF ANALYSES FOR LOW-COST ALTERNATIVES

Experience has shown that at traffic incident scenes, safety and operations can be improved if good on-site traffic management is used. Motorists lose about 750 million vehicle-hours per year while waiting for incidents to be removed, and over 2 million accidents per year occur on urban freeways alone. The research study identifies low-cost incident management systems for responding to freeway disturbances. Emphasis is placed on the development of pre-planned response techniques, candidate jurisdictional agreements, traffic operational procedures for incident sites, and overall improvement of freeway incident management. This volume of the report has been developed to present a planning methodology that can be used to evaluate existing incident management procedures and to estimate the potential effectiveness of low-cost techniques.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also Interim rept. dated May 76-259 007, and Volume 4 dated Sep 77, PB-279 498.
• Corporate Authors:

  Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Company

  1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20036

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Owen, J R
  • Urbanek, G L
• Publication Date: 1978-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 141 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cost effectiveness; Detection and identification; Detectors; Freeways; Highway operations; Highway planning; Highway traffic control; Surveillance; Time lag; Traffic; Traffic control; Traffic crashes; Traffic engineering; Traffic safety; Traffic surveillance; Transportation operations; Urban areas; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Motor vehicle accidents; Transportation management
• Old TRIS Terms: Traffic planning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00176022
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-RD-77- 59 Final Rpt., FCP 31C2-512
• Contract Numbers: DOT-FH-11-8813
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 19 1978 12:00AM