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Component

The Incident Timeline Tool provides for the visualization of detailed real-time and historic traffic management center incident data. Large incident data sets can be viewed in a graphical, one-screen overview. Line color, thickness, and length work together to convey data that would normally take multiple pages and large tables to understand. The mouse can be used to scroll over elements in the timeline to glean additional information. The Incident Timeline Tool reduces the chance of missing critical information, enables the user to correlate events, and quickens the time needed to comprehend the many simultaneous events that occur or occurred during the management of one or more incidents. This paper describes the use of the Incident Timeline Tool to visualize real-time and archived incident data collected and provided by the Maryland CHART, Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia Traffic Management Centers.

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07-1449

English

26p

2007

Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting

CD-ROM

Figures (10) ; References (8) ; Tables (1)

Data collection; Highway traffic control; Incident detection; Incident management; Real time information; Traffic control centers; Visualization

Incident data; Timeline information

Maryland; Northern Virginia; Washington Metropolitan Area

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2007 Paper #07-1449

TRIS, TRB

Feb 8 2007 6:03PM