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Title:

Incident Command System Strategies for Incident Management on Freeways: A Simulation Analysis

Accession Number:

01558166

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Incident Command System (ICS) has become a primary tool used to reduce the impact of non- recurrent traffic congestion due to traffic incidents on major roadways such as interstates. Longer incident clearance time comes with notable delay to motorists and an increase in the likelihood of a secondary incident that is often more severe than the initial congestion-causing incident. Incident management and clearance involve multi-agency emergency response including representatives from the state department of transportation, highway patrol, fire service, emergency medical service, towing, and hazardous-spill cleanup services. The traditional incident management approach is a step-by-step approach, largely performed independently with limited coordination among involved agencies. To minimize the incident response time, it is essential that every agency involved in the response operation work effectively and efficiently. In this study, an inter-agency communication framework was developed to improve the coordination among involved agencies in South Carolina. This research investigates the effectiveness of these multi-agency coordinated ICS strategies for managing traffic incidents in South Carolina by considering their potential impacts in reducing incident duration. Traffic micro-simulation models were developed to analyze the impact of three ICS strategies on total incident duration. A benefit cost analysis revealed that the benefits of each ICS strategy far outweigh the cost of implementation.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHB20 Freeway Operations. Alternate title: Incident Command System Strategies for Incident Management on Freeways: Simulation Analysis.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-5872

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Rahman, Mizanur
Khan, Sakib Mahmud
Chowdhury, Mashrur
Huynh, Nathan
Ogle, Jennifer
Dey, Kakan
Bhavsar, Parth

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Identifier Terms:

Incident Command System

Geographic Terms:

South Carolina

Subject Areas:

Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-5872

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:58PM