Highway Incident Management System for the City of Wichita, Kansas

The objective of this project is to develop a Highway Incident Management System (HIMS), through collaboration with the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) Traffic Management Center (TMC) in Wichita, Kansas. The anticipated functions of the HIMS are to 1) convenient extraction of specific incident-relevant record data from high-dimensional, high-volume time-series datasets, (2) autonomous analysis of online traffic-related data (e.g., volume and speed) for incident diagnosis/identification, and (3) autonomous optimization that facilitates traffic control decision making, to reduce average incident clearance and traffic recovery time. In this investigation, a total of 182 actively logged incidents, together with the traffic information from multiple online monitoring facility units during the month of April 2015 in Wichita will be used to facilitate the model and technology development. The outcomes of this research will be the following: (1) Analysis results of the online traffic data, for the development of related computational models for modeling the highway incident clearance and recovery times. (2) A technical tool to analyze the online traffic related data for highway incident diagnosis/identification. (3) A model with technical tools to facilitate traffic control decision making that can help reduce the average incident clearance and traffic recovery time.

• Record URL:
  http://www.intrans.iastate.edu/mtc/index.cfm/research/project/project/1728280480

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $40000
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT13-G-UTC37

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Kansas Department of Transportation

  Eisenhower State Office Building
  700 SW Harrison Street
  Topeka, KS  United States  66603-3754

  Midwest Transportation Center

  Iowa State University
  2711 S Loop Drive, Suite 4700
  Ames, IA  United States  50010-8664

  Wichita State University

  1845 Fairmount
  Wichita, KS  United States  67260
• Performing Organizations:

  Wichita State University

  1845 Fairmount
  Wichita, KS  United States  67260
• Principal Investigators:

  Wang, Pingfeng

• Start Date: 20151001
• Expected Completion Date: 20170930
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Incident management; Intelligent transportation systems; Monitoring; Real time information; Traffic control; Traffic data
• Identifier Terms: Highways (Accident management software)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01579700
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Midwest Transportation Center
• Contract Numbers: DTRT13-G-UTC37
• Files: UTC, RiP
• Created Date: Oct 27 2015 11:08AM