In Utah, incident management teams in Salt Lake Valley area decreased incident duration by approximately 20 minutes per incident on three major interstates.

An evaluation of the Utah Advanced Transportation Management System (ATMS) in the Salt Lake Valley

Date Posted
11/29/2005
Identifier
2007-B00443
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Advanced Transportation Management System Elemental Cost Benefit Assessment

Summary Information

This report provides assessments of the impact on transportation operations and a cost benefit analysis of four Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) components deployed in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah: incident management teams, ramp metering, signal coordination, and variable message signs. Two of the benefits assessments in the report were drawn from field experience with the Utah system, the others were estimated using impacts derived from the literature.

FINDINGS

Incident data were collected for a duration of five years (1999-2003) for three major interstates that account for 77 percent of IMT-assisted incidents. The analysis shows that since the implementation of IMT, the average incident duration decreased by approximately 20 minutes. The decrease in incident duration was highest for incidents affecting two lanes of traffic with over a 36 percent decrease (37 minutes). Because of the increase in staff and coverage area, local IMT responses increased from approximately 2,500 incident responses in 2000 to over 5,000 incident responses in 2002.
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