How should we prioritise incident management deployment?

The two common evaluation tools are insufficient for ITS evaluation. Therefore, a new network evaluation framework is presented in this paper for ITS and in particular incident management deployment. The framework aims to analyse the road network and prioritise roads with respect to two factors: the historical risk associated with incidents; and the cost effectiveness of implementation. To assess the historical risk, the framework initially converts social, economic and environmental impacts to a common monetary base, enabling the addition of the incident impacts. The economic impact values must be treated as relative values of measurement, not absolute costs. The second part of the framework assesses historical risk, taking into account both the consequence of an event, measured in economic terms described above, and the probability of an event occurring based on historical information. The third uses a cost-effective ratio comparing the reduced impacts with the project costs. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E213716.