Incident Management in Intelligent Transporation Systems (Artech House Intelligent Transportation Systems Library) - Hardcover

Ozbay, Kaan; Kachroo, Pushkin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0890067740 ISBN 13: 9780890067741

Publisher: Artech House, 1999

Synopsis

Comprising the results of a long-term incident management research project at the Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research, this volume makes the study's findings available to other researchers of incident management research. Most of the chapters contain portions of the models and descriptions of the Wide-Area Incident Management Support System (WAIMSS) software. Chapters include a review of incident management systems; incident detection; incident duration and delay prediction; incident response; traffic diversion for real-time traffic management during incidents; and online traffic control. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Review

Kaan Ozbay is an assistant professor at Rutgers University. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in civil engineering at Virginia Tech University. Dr. Ozbay is a recipient of the Eno Fellowship Award, the author of 25 research proposals, and the principal and co-principal investigator, and project manager of more than 10 ITS projects including the "Wide Area Incident Management " project sponsored by FHWA , and VDOT. Pushkin Kachroo is an assistant professor at Virginia Tech. He obtained his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, is a research engineer at the robotics R&D laboratory at Lincoln Electric Company and a Research Scientist at the Center for Transportation research. Dr .Kachroo has also served as the principal and co-principal investigator of several ITS projects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Artech House
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890067740
• ISBN 13: 9780890067741
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248