NSC Work Zone Technician Course (Training)
The NSC Work Zone Technician Course helps participants:
Understand and develop safe temporary traffic control strategies to maximize work zone employee and road user safety
Minimize operatio… More
Incident Management
Raising Awareness of Artificial Intelligence for Transportation Systems Management and Operations (Publication)
Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
This report introduces the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and potential areas of AI applications in Transportation Management Center (TMC) operations; documents successful A…MoreBusiness Process Frameworks for Transportation System Management and Operations (TSMO) Program Areas: Case Studies and Lessons Learned from Users of Program Area Frameworks (Publication)
Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Growing from research in the Strategic Highway Research Program 2 and subsequent support within the Federal Highway Administration Office of Operations, Transportation System Management and Operations…MoreCrowdsourcing for Operations (Publication)
Resource Type: Brochures and Fact Sheets
Crowdsourcing turns transportation system users into real-time sensors on system performance, providing low-cost, high-quality data on traffic operations, roadway conditions, travel patterns, and more…MoreBehind the Scenes: How Traffic is Controlled During Construction, Crashes (Publication)
Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles
As part of the $1B Project Neon upgrade, an overhead digital messaging sign was installed on U.S. Highway 95 southbound at MLK in Downtown Las Vegas. This article details how the sign is run by the So…More18 Miles: Gap Operations Center Helps Keep Construction Zone Moving (Publication)
Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles
Driving through Gap, an 18-mile construction zone between Castle Rock and Monument with very few exits, has been a hassle. To help mitigate issues, CDOT has an operations center in Castle Rock that mo…MoreGuidelines for Work Zone Designers – Designing for Incident Management (Publication)
Resource Type: Manuals, Policies, Guidelines, and Handbooks, etc.
Most State and many other transportation departments in the U.S. maintain roadway and/or work zone design manuals containing State specific regulations, policies, and design guidance for their designe…MoreImplementing Safe Work Zone Operations Strategies Training Course
This free one day course will provide personnel responsible for planning the operations of their workers in flagged, mobile, short duration, short term and incident response operations, tools and stra… More
Implementing Safe Work Zone Operations Strategies Training Course (Training)
This free one day course will provide personnel responsible for planning the operations of their workers in flagged, mobile, short duration, short term and incident response operations, tools and stra… More
A Short Course on Police Officer Traffic Control for Incident Management (Publication)
Resource Type: Manuals, Policies, Guidelines, and Handbooks, etc.
The primary purpose of this course is to introduce the police officer to engineering concepts associated with traffic operations and management; and provide technical information concerning traffic co…MorePredicting Work Zone Collision Probabilities via Clustering: Application in Optimal Deployment of Highway Response Teams (Publication)
Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
This paper proposes a clustering approach to predict the probability of a collision occurring in the proximity of planned road maintenance operations (i.e., work zones). The proposed method is applied…MoreOklahoma DOT Pilot Tests Dedicated Work Zone ‘Rescue Trucks’ (Publication)
Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles
To reduce crashes and congestion in the work zone, the Oklahoma Department of Transportation launches “GO-DOT,” a pilot program which dedicates two rescue trucks to remove stranded or wrecked vehi…MoreODOT to Keep Traffic on the ‘GO’ in I-235 Work Zone with New Program (Publication)
Resource Type: Other News Releases
Stranded vehicles inside a highway work zone can cause significant delays for motorists. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation has launched GO-DOT, a new pilot program designed to quickly move str…MoreModeling Framework to Identify an Affected Area for Developing Traffic Management Strategies (Publication)
Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
When a traffic incident occurs, congestion starts to disseminate around the incident location. Considering a suitable area to assess the impact of incidents and develop traffic network prediction mode…MoreFrom Road Design to Training, MDOT Focus is on Safety (Publication)
Resource Type: Other News Releases
As part of the effort to promote the "Toward Zero Deaths" (TZD) national highway safety strategy, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has implemented a number of projects across the Upper…MoreTraffic Incident Management on Rural Roads (Training)
This program applies traffic incident management (TIM) principles directly to the rural roads context using a two lane road as the example. The program highlights how fundamental TIM principles can be… More
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) (Training)
This module highlights and explains in plain language the portions of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) that apply to first responders working roadway incidents. The module offe… More
High Visibility Innovations (Training)
It is widely known that the visibility of responders is a key factor in safe emergency operation on the roadways. Beginning with the foundation of the applicable standards, this module will expose the… More
Data Enhancement for Responsive Work Zone Safety Measures through Integration of Real-Time Incident Alerts and Lane Closure Records (Publication)
Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Traditional work zone safety analysis and applications often rely on historical work zone and crash data. Those data are often in different formats and based on various location reference systems. It …MoreTraffic Incident Response Awareness Week, Nov. 14-18 (Publication)
Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles
The Federal Highway Administration has declared Nov. 14-18, 2016, as the first national Traffic Incident Response Awareness Week. The Missouri Department of Transportation and its partners including t…MoreReview of Literature and Practices for Incident Management Programs (Publication)
Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
The project team examined project evaluations, best practice summaries, and synthesis documents, and derived a summary of key elements of programs to speed the time to find and clear stalled vehicles …MoreTraffic Incident Management Quick Clearance Guidance and Implications (Publication)
Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Improving traffic incident management is one means to help reduce congestion, as traffic incidents account for approximately 25 percent of total congestion on U.S. highways. Between July and September…MoreBusiness Process Frameworks for Transportation Operations website (Practice)
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has developed the website below that contains a set of capability maturity frameworks to support the implementation of Transportation Systems Management and Opera… More
Traffic Incident Management Gap Analysis Primer (Publication)
Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
The research conducted for this gap analysis determined that there is no one-size-fits-all TIM program. As a result the recommendations contained within this document should be tailored towards the ne…MoreIncident Capacity Reduction on Four-lane Freeways Using Real World Data: Multilane Closures (Publication)
Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
One of the main goals in incident management is to reduce delay and queuing caused by an incident. Delay and queuing are among other things dependent on the road capacity, so an accurate estimate of t…MoreA Smartphone-Based Prototype System for Incident/Work Zone Management Driven by Crowd-Sourced Data (Publication)
Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
This project develops a smartphone-based prototype system that supplements the 511 system to improve its dynamic traffic routing service to state highway users under non-recurrent congestion. This sys…More