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Wichita TMC Support- Monthly Incident Report for February 2019 There were a total of 225 actively logged incidents during the month. The Traffic Management Center (TMC) is actively staffed 6am to 7pm, Monday-Friday, but additional incidents may be recorded outside normal hours. Below is a breakdown of active incident type as well as average duration of incident by type. Incidents are only reported where TMC system coverage is available for verification.

Figure 2: Number and percentage of actively logged incidents in MIST for the report month broken out by type of incident.

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31.3%

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68.9%

Incident Breakdown by Type

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FIRE

ACCIDENT-INJ/FAT

ACCIDENT-PDO

STALLED VEHICLE

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I-235

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US-54

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Figure 1: Total incidents by Highway

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Severity Levels

Minor – duration under 30 min. Intermediate – duration of 30 min. to 2 hrs. Major – duration greater than 2 hrs.

Injury/Fatality Crashes by Severity

Minor25%

Intermediate75%

Minor35%

Intermediate59%

Major6%

Incident vs. Crash

Incident – an event occurring on the highway that affects the safety or capacity of the highway Crash – the collision of a vehicle with another vehicle, animal, pedestrian, debris or stationary object

Total Crashes by Severity

Severity Total

Crashes Avg. Duration

(hh:mm)

Minor 19 0:09

Intermediate 32 1:03

Major 3 2:25

Grand Total 54 0:48

Minor33%

Intermediate62%

Major5%

Non-Injury Crashes by Severity

Severity Total

Crashes Avg. Duration

(hh:mm)

Minor 22 0:10

Intermediate 41 1:01

Major 3 2:25

Grand Total 66 0:47

Severity Total

Crashes Avg. Duration

(hh:mm)

Minor 3 0:14

Intermediate 9 0:53

Grand Total 12 0:43

2/06/19 EB K-96 at Webb 8:23 hrs (2:13) 2/15/19 WB US-54 at West 10:54 hrs (2:50) 2/20/19 EB US-54 at I-135 13:03 hrs (2:12)

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Figure 3: Total Crashes by Highway. Crashes are broken out by “Injury/Fatality” and “Property Damage Only”.

Figure 4: Average Crash Clearance Time by Highway. Crashes are broken out by “Injury/Fatality” and “Property Damage Only”.

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Total Crashes by HighwayJanuary 2019 February 2019

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Average Time (hour:min)

Crash Clearance Time by Highway

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Figure 6: Average Incident Clearance time by type for the last 3 months. Construction and tow events excluded for clarity.

Figure 5: Average Incident Clearance time for the last 3 months. Construction, stalled, and tow events excluded for clarity.

Figure 7: Average Incident Clearance time (2019 vs. 2018). Construction and tow events excluded for clarity.

In the month, a total of 4 secondary crashes were

reported. Secondary crashes

comprised 6.1% of logged crashes. Secondary crashes are

additional crashes resulting from the original incident.

Last Month: 3 crashes, 4.3%

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Roadwork

Closure*

Other Incident**

Congestion

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Number of Posts

Posted Incidents by Type & Time of Day

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Dynamic Message Sign (DMS) Utilization

WICHway utilizes 29 permanent DMS. In the

month, a total of 642 messages were posted.

100% of DMS were used at least once for an

incident.

Messages shown exclude travel times and test messages. Messages shown include modifications to previous messages. *Closure messages include roadway closures for roadwork, incidents, and weather postings. **Other Incidents include but are not limited to stalled vehicles, fire, and medical incidents.

Figure 8: Number of posted messages per DMS by AM and PM hours.

Figure 9: Posted incidents by type and AM/PM hours.

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