Sadek part of $1.2 million grant to reduce traffic incidents and their impact
These maps illustrate the negative impact a traffic incident has on transportation systems.
By Peter Murphy
Published August 15, 2022
Adel Sadek, professor and founding director of UB’s Stephen Still Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics, is part of a $1.2 million grant investigating an integrated incident management system to improve traffic incident management throughout New York state.
“Traffic incidents have significant negative impacts on the overall transportation system performance, and the transportation community consistently strives to improve the transportation incident management process,” Sadek says. New York State Department of Transportation’s (NYSDOT) General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) has worked for several years to develop, evaluate and deploy an integrated incident management system, known as IIMS.”
The IIMS has three functions: provide improved sharing of incident reporting between first/secondary response teams and operations centers; improve situational awareness, enhance coordinated response to incidents and safety of incident scenes; and reduce incident duration and impact (lane closures, delay and occurrence of secondary incidents) using analytical tools that correlate IIMS with vehicle sensor and other data sources. The project will deploy the IIMS in NYSDOT Region 3, which includes all of the Central New York Region and Onondaga County.
Sadek, UB collaborator SUNY Distinguished Professor in the department of computer science and engineering Chunming Qiao, and the rest of the UB team is responsible for comprehensively evaluating the IIMS and gauging the level to which the system helps achieve the identified goals.