Incident Detection and Response Utilizing Traffic Responsive across Agency-Jurisdictional Boundaries

摘要

Econolite Control Products, Inc, in partnership with the Denver Regional Council ofGovernments (DRCOG) is currently performing a demonstration project of incidentmanagement strategies across agency-jurisdictional boundaries. Incident detection hasbeen established utilizing threshold based, V+kO data from vehicle detectors at intersectionapproaches commonly used as diversion routes to freeway incidents. These detectors arecollected from different agency systems in near-real-time and accumulated into a commontraffic responsive algorithm, performed at one of the agency systems. Incident responseutilizes a multi-jurisdictional, concurrent alteration of predefined timing plans in response todetected incidents. The system that performs the traffic responsive algorithm, distributesrecommended timing plans for each agency to implement via the center-to-center interface.This project is unique in its leverage of off-the-shelf Traffic Responsive and Server-to-Serverfunctionality within the Centracs ATMS as a basis for evaluation of incident detection andresponse methodologies. Each ATMS system operates at a peer level with another,providing a framework for collaborative signal monitoring, data exchange and control. Thisimplementation does not require development of supervisory ATMS systems or othercustom-engineered solutions as more commonly found in practice.