Incident Management in Managed Lanes

About the project

Managed lanes create unique challenges for incident response due to additional intelligent transportation systems infrastructure, tight space constraints, limited access, and additional stakeholders. This research effort will synthesize best practices among state departments of transportation and other managed lane operators, as well as a review of the recent literature. Specific aspects of managed lane incident management to be studied include incident responder challenges, technological solutions, traffic control strategies, interactions between managed and general-purpose lanes, planned work zones, safety service patrols (both VDOT and those of managed lanes operators) , and coordination among stakeholders. The project will also develop methods to calculate the return on investment of various incident management approaches. The approaches identified by this study may be adopted by VDOT, resulting in improved incident management, reduced delay, and improved safety with respect to secondary crashes and responder safety.

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