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Modelling major traffic incident impacts and estimation of their associated costs

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  • Mohamad Raduan bin Kabit
  • Phil Charles
  • Luis Ferreira
  • Inhi Kim

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Network area-wide impacts due to major traffic incidents can be assessed using a microsimulation approach. A VISSIM microsimulation model for a motorway network has been developed and is used to quantify impacts of a major incident in terms of associated costs. The modelled results reveal that a 65% capacity reduction results in 36% more incident-induced delay when compared with the application of a 50% capacity reduction assumption for a two-hour incident clearance duration that blocked one lane of a two-lane motorway. Additionally, an incident which caused a full blockage incurred 40 times more associated impact costs when compared with a major incident which caused a one lane blockage. A 23% cost saving can be achieved by clearing one lane of a fully blocked two-hour major traffic incident after 90 minutes, while a 37% cost saving can be achieved by clearing all blockages after 90 minutes.

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  • Mohamad Raduan bin Kabit & Phil Charles & Luis Ferreira & Inhi Kim, 2014. "Modelling major traffic incident impacts and estimation of their associated costs," Transportation Planning and Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(4), pages 373-390, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:transp:v:37:y:2014:i:4:p:373-390
    DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2014.897130
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