Wichita TMC Support- Monthly Incident Report for May 2020
There were a total of 156 actively logged incidents during the month. The Traffic Management Center (TMC) is actively staffed 24/7. 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.
1 0.6% 0.6%1 2 1.3% 12 7.7% 14 9.0% 126 80.8%
Incident
Breakdown
by
Type
FIRE TOW DEBRIS ACCIDENT‐INJ/FAT ACCIDENT‐PDO STALLED VEHICLE 53 29 21 52 1 I‐135 I‐235 K‐96 US‐54 K‐15 0 20 40 60 Highway Total Incidents
Total
Incidents
Severity
Levels
Minor – duration under 30 min.
Intermediate – duration of 30 min. to 2 hrs.
Major – duration greater than 2 hrs.
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
Injury/Fatality
Crashes
by
Severity
Minor 8% Intermediate 75% Major 17% Minor 36% Intermediate 57% Major 7% Severity Total Crashes Avg. Duration (hh:mm) Minor 5 0:10 Intermediate 8 1:08 Major 1 2:12 Grand Total 14 0:52 Severity Total Crashes Avg. Duration (hh:mm) Minor 1 0:19 Intermediate 9 1:04 Major 2 2:27 Grand Total 12 1:14 Minor 23% Intermediate 65% Major 12%
Non
‐
Injury
Crashes
by
Severity
Severity Total Crashes Avg. Duration (hh:mm) Minor 6 0:12 Intermediate 17 1:06 Major 3 2:22 Grand Total 26 1:02
05/05/20 WB US‐54 at I‐135 (2:08) (5 vehicles)
05/11/20 EB US‐54 at I‐235 (2:47)
Total
Crashes
by
Severity
05/17/20 NB I‐135 at Pawnee (2:
5 4 2 2 1 4 7 1 4 2 2 1 1 2 2 0 2 4 6 8 ACCIDENT‐INJ/FAT ACCIDENT‐PDO ACCIDENT‐INJ/FAT ACCIDENT‐PDO ACCIDENT‐INJ/FAT ACCIDENT‐PDO ACCIDENT‐INJ/FAT ACCIDENT‐PDO ACCIDENT‐INJ/FAT ACCIDENT‐PDO I ‐ 13 5 I ‐ 23 5 K ‐ 96 US ‐ 54 K ‐ 15 Total Crashes
Total
Crashes
by
Highway
April 2020 May 2020
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”.
0:45 0:46 0:40 1:08 0:05 2:08 0:58 1:11 1:04 0:40 0:42 0:14 0:46 0:46 0:48 0:00 0:30 1:00 1:30 2:00 2:30 ACCIDENT‐INJ/FAT ACCIDENT‐PDO ACCIDENT‐INJ/FAT ACCIDENT‐PDO ACCIDENT‐INJ/FAT ACCIDENT‐PDO ACCIDENT‐INJ/FAT ACCIDENT‐PDO ACCIDENT‐INJ/FAT ACCIDENT‐PDO I ‐ 13 5 I ‐ 23 5 K ‐ 96 US ‐ 54 K ‐ 15
Average Time (hour:min)
Crash
Clearance
Time
by
Highway
43 min ( 275 ) 52 min ( 284 ) 42 min ( 301 ) 43 min ( 256 ) 45 min ( 108 ) 62min (156 ) 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
March April May
Average Time (hour:min)
Average Incident Clearance Time by Month
(
Total
Incidents
)
2019 2020 0:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 Average Time (hour:min)Average Incident Clearance Time by Month
March 2020 April 2020 May 2020Figure 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 2020 vs. 2019 (3 months). Construction, stalled, and tow events excluded for clarity.
Figure 7: Average Incident Clearance time (2020 vs. 2019).
Construction and tow events excluded for clarity.
In the month, a total of
2
secondary
crashes
werereported. The secondary crashes
comprised
7.7%
of
logged
crashes.
Secondary crashes areadditional crashes resulting from
the original incident. Last Month: 1 crash, 7.1%
1:05 0:40 0:07 0:24 3:47 1:14 0:52 9:42 2:01 4:10 0:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 Average Time (hour:min)
Average Incident Clearance Time by Year
May 2019 May 2020Debris Congestion Other Incident** Closure* Accident Roadwork COVID‐19 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 Number of Posts
Posted
Incidents
by
Type
&
Time
of
Day
AM PM
Dynamic
Message
Sign
(DMS)
Utilization
WICHway utilizes 33 permanent DMS. In the
month, a total of
779
messages
were posted.100%
of DMS were used at least once for anincident.
Messagesshownexcludetraveltimesandtestmessages.Messagesshownincludemodificationstopreviousmessages.
*Closuremessagesincluderoadwayclosuresforroadwork,incidents,andweatherpostings. **OtherIncidentsincludebutarenotlimitedtostalledvehicles,fire,andmedicalincidents.
Figure 8: Number of posted messages per DMS by AM and PM hours
Figure 9: Posted incidents by type and AM/PM hours
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Number of Posts
Posted
DMS
by
Time
of
Day
