Incident Management in Managed Lanes
Managed lanes create unique challenges for incident response due to additional intelligent transportation systems infrastructure, tight space constraints, limited access, and additional stakeholders. This research effort will synthesize best practices among state departments of transportation and other managed lane operators, as well as a review of the recent literature. Specific aspects of managed lane incident management to be studied include incident responder challenges, technological solutions, traffic control strategies, interactions between managed and general-purpose lanes, planned work zones, safety service patrols (both Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and those of managed lanes operators) , and coordination among stakeholders. The project will also develop methods to calculate the return on investment of various incident management approaches. The approaches identified by this study may be adopted by VDOT, resulting in improved incident management, reduced delay, and improved safety with respect to secondary crashes and responder safety.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $65,263.00
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Contract Numbers:
128875
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Sponsor Organizations:
Virginia Transportation Research Council
530 Edgemont Road
Charlottesville, VA United States 22903 -
Performing Organizations:
Virginia Transportation Research Council
530 Edgemont Road
Charlottesville, VA United States 22903 -
Principal Investigators:
Goodall, Noah
- Start Date: 20260315
- Expected Completion Date: 20270331
- Actual Completion Date: 0
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Best practices; Incident management; Managed lanes; State departments of transportation
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01989909
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Virginia Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: 128875
- Files: RIP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: May 21 2026 8:06AM