Award Date
2009
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE)
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor 1
Pushkin Kachroo, Committee Chair
First Committee Member
Venkatesan Muthukumar
Second Committee Member
Rama Venkat,
Graduate Faculty Representative
Kazem Taghva
Number of Pages
104
Abstract
Freeway incidents are associated with different impacts such as traffic congestion, delays, fuel consumption, secondary incidents etc. Secondary incidents are caused due to primary incidents and require the same personnel who are already engaged. This thesis studies various impacts caused by primary incident in space and time occurring on the freeways and these results are applied to identify secondary incidents. Three types of impacts are identified and proposed in this study. Dynamic nature of queue length in the direction of accident is studied. Dynamic nature of congestion in the opposite direction of the freeway till the accident is cleared is also studied. Dynamic nature of movement of distraction point on the opposite side of the freeway as the queue gets cleared in accident direction is studied. Finally, simulations are carried out by using Las Vegas freeway traffic volumes to show the effect of these impacts in Las Vegas region. The simulation results are applied to real time data to identify secondary incidents.
Keywords
Car crashes; Drive delays; Freeways; Fuel consumption; Highways; Incident management program; Las Vegas Valley; Nevada; Rubber necking; Traffic accidents; Traffic congestion; Traffic jams; Traffic incidents; Traffic simulations; Transportation
Disciplines
Electrical and Computer Engineering
File Format
Degree Grantor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Language
English
Repository Citation
Saddi, Rohit Reddy, "Studying the impacts of primary incidents on freeways to identify secondary incidents" (2009). UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones. 165.
http://dx.doi.org/10.34917/1394524
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