Visualizing real-time and archived traffic incident data

Authors:
Michael VanDaniker
Affiliations:
University of Maryland, College Park, Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory, College Park, MD
Venue:
IRI'09 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE international conference on Information Reuse & Integration
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The volume of data associated with a single transportation incident is difficult to comprehend, and existing systems often fail to equip users with the tools to rapidly make sense of this data. The consequences of delayed decision-making or misinterpreting data can be life threatening. A tool that gives the incident manager the ability to grasp the entire picture of an incident in a minimal amount of time is essential to facilitate quick decision-making. The Transportation Incident Management Explorer (TIME) visualizes real-time and historic traffic incident data. Temporal data are rendered as timelines and geospatial data are plotted on an interactive map, providing users freedom to explore regions affected by an incident. TIME reduces the chance of missing critical information, enables users to correlate events, and quickens the time needed to comprehend the many simultaneous events that occur during the management of an incident.