Review and Enhancement of CHART Operational Strategies to Maximize the Benefits of Incident Response and Management
To meet expectations of policymakers and the general public regarding minimizing the impact of non-recurrent congestion, CHART operations faces numerous challenges and making even small performance improvements can result in multi-million dollars in tangible benefits. This study will design effective operational strategies that can assist the CHART program in maximizing its incident response efficiency and the resulting benefits under the existing resource constraints. The development of strategies will be based on CHART's response efficiency to different types of incidents over the past three years and the encountered traffic as well as incident patterns in different freeway networks. It is expected that an in-depth analysis of the interrelationships between incident/accident patterns (including police accident data) and CHART's performance can reveal critical areas for improvement related to incident detection coverage, response efficiency, and accident clearance operations.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $99376.00
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Contract Numbers:
DTRT07-G-0003
UMD-2009-07
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Sponsor Organizations:
Mid-Atlantic Universities Transportation Center
Pennsylvania State University
201 Transportation Research Building
University Park, PA United States 16802-4710 -
Performing Organizations:
Center for Integrated Transportation Systems Management
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD United States 20742 -
Principal Investigators:
Chang, Gang-Len
- Start Date: 20100322
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 20111231
- Source Data: RiP Project 27042
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Congestion management systems; Crash data; Highway operations; Incident management; Police reports; Traffic congestion; Traffic data; Traffic incidents
- Identifier Terms: CHART (Program : Maryland)
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01463854
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Mid-Atlantic Universities Transportation Center
- Contract Numbers: DTRT07-G-0003, UMD-2009-07
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Jan 3 2013 2:31PM