Research Article

Evaluating the Impact of Freeway Service Patrol on Incident Clearance Times: A Spatial Transferability Test

Table 3

Percent changes in the random parameters hazard-based duration models.

VariablesChanges (%)
Combined ASAPInside ASAP areaOutside ASAP area

Incident characteristics
Multiple vehicles involved in crash incident (1 if yes, 0 otherwise)16.623.5
Commercial motor vehicle (CMV) involved (1 if yes, 0 otherwise)48.754.851.1
Fatality involved (1 if yes, 0 otherwise)126.6202.285.3
Vehicle towed (1 if yes, 0 otherwise)43.950.424.5
Seat belt indicated as involved (1 if yes, 0 otherwise)−14.4−6.8−27.3
On-road (1 if yes, 0 otherwise)−17.3−21.9−8.6
Overturn (1 if yes, 0 otherwise)25.2
Collision type: rear end collision (1 if yes, 0 otherwise)17.5
Temporal characteristics
Nighttime (lighting condition at time of crash incident: 1 if yes, 0 otherwise)10.19.613.2
Winter (incident occurred in month of December, January, or February: 1 if yes, 0 otherwise)21.4
Peak hours (1 if incident occurred between 7 AM–9 AM and 4 PM–6 PM, 0 otherwise)−10.5−9.4
Environmental characteristics
Rain (1 if yes, 0 otherwise)7.38.0
Traffic characteristics
Average annual daily traffic (AADT/1000)−0.6−0.4−0.4
One lane in the traffic way−23.3
More than two lanes in the traffic way20.3
Less than four lanes in the traffic way−10.4
Operational characteristics
Detection time (in minutes)0.71.6
Response time (in minutes)0.91.1
Police response present (1 if yes, 0 otherwise)14.916.5
Fire response present (1 if yes, 0 otherwise)21.825.119.5
Hazardous materials response present (1 if yes, 0 otherwise)183.8