Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems to Facilitate Traffic Incident Management

The purpose of this research is to conduct a synthesis of practice to document the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to assist TOC control staff in evaluating situational awareness of crashes by sending video to the TOC to assist with traffic incident management (TIM). The research team would identify what other states are doing, how they are doing it, and the overall capabilities of the current UAS fleet in the state and the capability of this fleet to send data to the TOC. The results of this would be used to help Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) understand what might be missing from a resources/systems standpoint to allow this to be used more efficiently. This research would be anticipated as a first step for conducting a pilot study to use UAS and see how effective they could be.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $49999.53
• Contract Numbers:

  UDOT 24-8405

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Utah Department of Transportation

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

  Utah Department of Transportation

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

  Jensen, Travis

• Performing Organizations:

  Brigham Young University

  Provo, UT  United States  84602-4081
• Principal Investigators:

  Schultz, Grant

• Start Date: 20231016
• Expected Completion Date: 20250331
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Incident management; Safety; State of the practice; Unmanned aircraft systems; Video
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01895950
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Utah Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: UDOT 24-8405
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Oct 12 2023 3:16PM