SPONSOR: Oregon Department of Transportation

BUDGET: $23,962

ABSTRACT: Incidents are defined as accidents, breakdowns and other random events that occur on our highway system. It is well known that incidents contribute to approximately 50 percent of the congestion delay on the nation's highways, lead to major road closures and adversely affect the safety of our transportation network. Further, incidents increase drivers

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report Bertini, R., Tantiyanugulchai, S., Anderson, E., Lindgren, R., Leal, M. , "Evaluation of Region 2 Incident Response Program Using Archived Data.." Portland State University, Transportation Research Group, Research Report, July 2001.