Incident Management Simulation

A simulation model is developed to evaluate the performance of incident management operations. The Washington D.C. beltway network is used as the study highway. Beltway network is selected due to the availability of real-world incident data collected as a part of another study. Five incident types are considered. Their severity degrees are assumed to be related to the incident characteristics, such as number of vehicles involved, number of injuries, etc. A relationship between the severity degree and the allocation of necessary emergency units is derived from previous data found in the related studies. The same data source is used to estimate incident clearance times. There are three different periods of time that can be minimized during an incident removal process: Detection and verification time, response time and clearance time. This study focuses on the variation of detection and response times for various deployment strategies of Emergency Response Teams (ERT). Arena simulation package is used to model and examine the effects of various incident management strategies. An example scenario is given and the possible strategies are compared based on the statistical values obtained from the simulation output analysis.

• Corporate Authors:

  World Conference on Transport Research Society

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• Authors:
  • Bartin, Bekir
  • Ozbay, Kaan
• Conference:
  • 10th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Istanbul , Turkey
  • Date: 2004-7-4 to 2004-7-8
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 19p
• Monograph Title: 10th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash severity; Emergency response time; Incident detection; Incident management; Simulation; Traffic incidents; Traffic simulation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Clearance time (Traffic incidents)
• Geographic Terms: Washington (District of Columbia)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01087959
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 30 2008 11:51AM