Despite the needs of assessing the time-varying queue length for incident traffic management, such imperative information has not yet been available in practice, due partly to the lack of reliable sensor data on many highways plagued by nonrecurrent congestion. Hence, this study first presents an incident queue impact assessment system that allows highway agencies to perform reliable estimate of the queue distance during the incident clearance period with available detector data, and then discusses two alternative models for supporting approximating such impacts on roadway networks without traffic sensors. The proposed system’s major model, grounded in the classical shockwave theory, has augmented the formulations for queue propagation dynamics with the impacts from incoming drivers’ perceptions and responses to the progressively constrained traffic conditions. To cope with the lack of real-time traffic flow information, the first alternative model integrates the increasing available speed data from probe vehicles or other sources with lane blockage patterns to approximate the discharge flow rate of the incident. The second alternative model centers on the methodology and calibration methods for constructing a set of speed–flow rate relationships for different times of day with archived traffic data to approximate the arriving flow rate. With such information, responsible agencies can then proceed the approximation of incident queue variation length and take necessary actions. Performance evaluation of the proposed system with both field incident data and simulated scenarios has confirmed its promising properties, especially for highway networks without reliable traffic surveillance systems.


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    Title :

    Estimating Incident Queue Impacts with and without a Traffic Surveillance System


    Additional title:

    J. Transp. Eng., Part A: Systems


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2024-07-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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