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.
Alternative Surveillance Concepts and Methods for Freeway Incident Management. Volume 2. Planning and Tradeoff Analyses for Low-Cost Alternatives
1978
141 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation & Traffic Planning , Road Transportation , Transportation Safety , Freeways , Traffic engineering , Traffic control , Surveillance , Detection , Time lag , Transportation management , Urban transportation , Cost effectiveness , Motor vehicle accidents , Traffic surveillance , Traffic incident detection , Traffic flow