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Table 1 Factors and their significant contributions to traffic incident duration
From: Overview of traffic incident duration analysis and prediction
Types of Factors | Factors |
|---|---|
Incident characteristics | Incident severity, incident type, towing requirements, type of involved vehicles, number of casualties, number of lanes blocked and incident location |
Environmental conditions | Rain, snow, dry, or wet |
Temporal factors | Time of day, day of week, season, month of year |
Roadway geometry | Street, intersection, road layout, horizontal/vertical alignment, bottlenecks, roadway type |
Traffic flow conditions | Flow, speed, occupancy, queue length |
Operational factors | Lane closures, freeway courtesy service characteristics |
Vehicle characteristics | Large trucks, trucks with trailers, taxis, special vehicles, compact trucks, number of vehicles involved |
Others | Driver, special events, time that a police officer reaches the site, police response time, report mechanism, accident characteristics reported at accident notification |