Work Zone Analytics

For the past 3 years, Purdue University and the Indiana Department of transportation have been monitoring congestion and hard braking data across all 2600 miles of Indiana Interstates using connected vehicle data. Figure 1 illustrates one such report for I-465 that shows the impact of the 2021 construction activities on congestion. These reports have evolved over the past 3 years in Indiana and there is a need to develop a multi-state consensus on the most effective reports. This will provide a framework to formalize the reporting models, data reduction processes and decision making process so these techniques can be scaled to other states so they can pro-actively identify emerging safety concerns in their work zones, conduct effective after action reviews of past work zones, and ultimately identify best practices for future work zones that minimize congestion, hard braking and ultimately crashes.

• Record URL:
  http://www.pooledfund.org/Details/Study/746

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Programmed
• Funding: $500000
• Contract Numbers:

  TPF-5(514)

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Wisconsin Department of Transportation

  PO Box 7910
  4802 Sheboygan Avenue, Room 104
  Madison, WI  United States  53707-7910

  Michigan Department of Transportation

  Van Wagoner Building
  425 W. Ottawa Street
  Lansing, MI  United States  48909

  Texas Department of Transportation

  125 E. 11th Street
  Austin, TX  United States  78701-2483

  Illinois Department of Transportation

  2300 S. Dirksen Parkway
  Springfield, IL  United States  62764

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Utah Department of Transportation

  4501 South 2700 West
  Project Development
  Salt Lake City, UT  United States  84114-8380

  Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

  Keystone Building
  400 North Street
  Harrisburg, PA  United States  17120
• Managing Organizations:

  Indiana Department of Transportation

  1101 State Office Building
  Indianapolis, IN  United States  46204
• Project Managers:

  Nantung, Tommy

• Start Date: 20231221
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Braking; Connected vehicles; Interstate highways; Probe vehicles; Skidding; Traffic congestion; Traffic safety; Traffic surveillance; Work zone safety; Work zones
• Geographic Terms: Indiana
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01881827
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Contract Numbers: TPF-5(514)
• Files: RIP, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: May 4 2023 4:31PM