Hazardous materials routing constitutes a critical decision in mitigating the associated
transportation risk. This paper presents a decision support system for assessing alternative …

A steady-state M/M/c queueing system under batch service interruptions is introduced to
model the traffic flow on a roadway link subject to incidents. When a traffic incident happens …

Incident-related congestion is a serious problem of great concern for most metropolitan
traffic management authorities. The high economic and social impact associated with the …

Efficient emergency response is a major concern in densely populated urban areas.
Numerous techniques have been proposed to allocate emergency responders to optimize …

The structure and performance of existing freeway incident detection methods are reviewed
and a new method is proposed. The new method reduces the likelihood of false incident …

In the rescue process of urban road traffic accidents, the decision-making support system is
of great importance since it will affect the rescue response time, and the response time is …

A simulation model is developed to evaluate the performance of incident management
operations. The Washington, DC beltway network is used as the study highway due to the …

Real-time traffic incident response strategies deal with the determination of optimal resource
allocation policies in response to traffic incidents occurring on a network. Such strategies …

Non-recurrent congestion disrupts normal traffic operations and lowers travel time (TT)
reliability, which leads to many negative consequences such as difficulties in trip planning …

Highway traffic incidents induce a significant loss of life, economy, and productivity through
injuries and fatalities, extended travel time and delay, and excessive energy consumption …