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Coordinate extensively with other stakeholder agencies.

Involving other stakeholder agencies early in the process of developing and implementing an ITS work zone system will greatly aid in the success of the system’s deployment. During the deployment of…
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Date Posted
09/16/2005

Delay savings benefit-to-cost ratio of 8.5:1 found with deployment of a traffic incident management system in Knoxville, Tennessee

FINDINGS The analysis found a total delay savings of $12.1 million while total costs were $1.43 million, yielding a benefit-to-cost ratio of 8.5:1. Note, however, that the benefit-to-cost ratio for…
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03/24/2017

Overall benefit-cost ratio for traffic incident management-oriented ITS program estimated to be 3.16.

Methodology A traffic microsimulation software package was used to quantify benefits from "with/without" ITS scenarios with regards to freeway incident management based on AADT, ITS device density,…
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Date Posted
06/26/2016

Benefit-Cost Ratios of up to 25.8:1 have been produced in regions with aggressive Freeway Service Patrol programs.

FINDINGSVery few of the programs surveyed reported conducting an official benefit-cost ratio analysis. Currently, no national standard exists for measuring the benefit-cost ratio of service patrol…
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Date Posted
03/26/2014
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Roadway Service Patrols (PS08)

Break even point calculated for an incident response program: reducing 30 seconds per incident results in $711,300 reduction in costs of delay, equivalent to the cost of operating the incident response program for a year.

METHODOLOGYData used in this study were extracted from an archived computer aided dispatch database (CAD), automatic vehicle location systems (AVL), inductive loop detectors, automatic traffic…
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Date Posted
09/17/2013
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Roadway Service Patrols (PS08)