Impact of Rapid Incident Detection on Freeway Accident Fatalities

摘要

Incident detection systems have the potential of reducing the time between the211u001eoccurrence of accidents and the notification of emergency medical services, 211u001ecalled the accident notification time. Reductions in this time, in turn, may 211u001eaffect the numbers of fatalities. A statistical analysis is conducted to 211u001edetermine the quantitative relationship between fatalities and the accident 211u001enotification time on urban freeways. Using this relationship, the impact of 211u001efreeway incident detection systems on fatalities is estimated. are also derived. 211u001eThe economic benefits of fatality reduction are also derived.