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Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation for Traffic Incident Management Applications
Posted: 10/15/2012

Traffic incidents are a major source of congestion. Implementing traffic incident management (TIM) strategies has proven to be a highly cost effective way of reducing non-recurrent congestion. This publication provides the current state of practice of various analytical methodologies and related TIM applications. It, also, identifies some research activities to improve analysis of incident impacts and TIM strategies.

URL: http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop12045/index.htm


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