Traffic Incident Clearance Time and Arrival Time Prediction Based on Hazard Models

Table 1

Incident property information.

Parameter	Description information
Priority
Classification	The classification to further define the type of incidents
Blockage type	The type of blockage caused by the traffic incident. Possible values are unknown, no blockage, partially blocked, blocked, both direction blocked
Number of lanes blocked	The number of lanes blocked by the traffic incident
Fire hazard	If hazard resulted in smoke/poor/visibility and/or fire
Intersection	Whether nearby the intersection
Major incident	Whether the incident is major
Lane blocked	How many lanes are blocked
Heavy traffic	Whether heavy traffic involved
Towing	Whether towing is needed
Number of vehicles involved	The number of vehicles involved in the crash.; (only applicable for crash incident data)
Number of people injured	The number of people injured in the crash.; (only applicable for crash incident data)
Number of fatalities	The number fatalities from the crash
Medical emergency	Yes/no
Weather	Possible values are cloudy, electrical storm, fine, fog, hail, heavy rain, showers, snow, unknown, wind. This column will always display “Unknown” for weather hazard incident.
Opp lanes blocked	The number of lanes blocked by the traffic incident, on the opposite link.
Diversion required	Indicates whether a diversion was required due to the traffic incident
Lateral position	Possible values are in bay, in lanes, in median, left shoulder, right shoulder, and unknown.
Chemical spill	This is only applicable to crash incidents and debris/obstruction/spill.