Traffic congestion has been identified as the one of the most serious
problems in urban transportation. Not much can be done in finding solutions to
recurring congestion problem. As a part of ITS research in the 90's, a lot of
research is being focused on non-recurring congestion which is caused primarily
by incidents. Incident Response is a part of Incident Management programs but
it has not been researched in depth. In this project, an incident response plan
has been formulated on paper. A contact information database and a resource
allocation database are the part of the plan. The resource allocation database
has been created using expert knowledge and statistical anaJysis on the incident
survey conducted in Fairfax County in northern Virginia. This plan is converted to
a computer based response plan. It is then implemented using the ARCIINFO
GIS software on a Unix Sun Sparc 2000 platform. The response plan is the part
of a larger 'Wide Area Incident Management System Software'. / Master of Science
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/41173 |
| Date | 16 February 2010 |
| Creators | Dhingra, Nilesh |
| Contributors | Civil Engineering, Trani, Antonio A., Carstensen, Laurence William Jr., Ozbay, Kaan |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master's project |
| Format | BTD, application/pdf |
| Relation | LD5655.V851_1996.D496.pdf |
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