SPONSOR: TransNow University Transportation Center and Oregon Department of Transportation

BUDGET: $84,092

ABSTRACT: The objective of this project is to use the existing data, surveillance and communications infrastructure (to the extent possible) to develop two case study evaluations for Oregon, including an evaluation of the COMET incident management program and the Portland ramp metering system. The COMET evaluation will include a thorough literature review of other incident management program evaluations, as well as a determination of the costs and benefits of the program. Benefits will include reduction in vehicular delay, fuel consumption and emissions due to early incident response, prevention of secondary accidents as well as benefits stemming from public perceptions. To the extent possible, the existing ITS infrastructure, Oregon State Patrol computer aided dispatch database and statewide accident database will be used as data sources to minimize the amount of new data collection required. It is envisioned that one corridor will be selected for a focused analysis, using video surveillance to observe actual incident durations and COMET response times. The ramp metering system case study will select a corridor where

PRODUCTS:

conferenceproceedings Bertini, R.L., Rose, M. and El-Geneidy,A., "Using Archived data to Measure Operational Benefits of ITS Investments: Region 1 incident Response Program." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 2005.

poster Bertini, R.L., Rose, M. and El-Geneidy,A., "Using Archived data to Measure Operational Benefits of ITS Investments: Region 1 incident Response Program." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 2005.

conferenceproceedings Bertini, R.L., Rose, M. and El-Geneidy,A., "Using Archived ITS Data Sources to Measure the Effectiveness of a Freeway Incident Response Program ." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 2005

presentation Bertini, R.L. and Rose, M., "Evaluation of the "COMET" Incident Response Program." Portland State University, Center for Transportation Studies, Presentation, June 2004.

report Bertini, R.L., Rose, M., El-Geneidy, A., Eder, A., Leal, M., Malik, S., Tantiyanugulchai, S. and Yin, T., "Using Archived Data to Measure Operational Benefits of ITS Investments: Ramp Meters." Portland State University, Center for Transportation Studies, Research Report, June 2004.

report Bertini, R.L., Rose, M. and El-Geneidy,A., "Using Archived Data to Measure Operational Benefits of ITS Investments:Region 1 Incident Response Program." Portland State University, Center for Transportation Studies, Research Report, June 2004.

presentation Rose, Mike., "Evaluation of Comet Incident Response Program." Portland State University, Center for Transportation Seminar, Archived Streaming Video , May 2004.

journal Bertini, R.L., and El-Geneidy,A., "Techniques for Evaluating the Performance of Pre-Timed Ramp Meters Using Archived ITS Data." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 2004.

Center for Transportation Seminar - May 28, 2004

Evaluation of Comet Incident Response Program

Here is a link to archived video of Mike Rose's Seminar reporting on the results of the Comet Evaluation:

• Watch Archived Streaming Video (Mike Rose)
• Presentation

Also, we have prepared two shorter papers describing the project results:

• Comet (July 2004)
• Ramp Metering (August 2003)

Some Comet Data:

• Raw data
• Data dictionary