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.


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    Title :

    Alternative Surveillance Concepts and Methods for Freeway Incident Management. Volume 2. Planning and Tradeoff Analyses for Low-Cost Alternatives


    Contributors:
    J. R. Owen (author) / G. L. Urbanek (author)

    Publication date :

    1978


    Size :

    141 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English