Introduction:

This report describes the operation and specific activities of the Kansas City Scout Traffic Management Center (TMC). Activities for Fiscal Year 2006 (July 2006 - June 2007) are detailed in this report.

Operations Summary:

Incidents

• The TMC actively responded to 4,129 incidents, representing a 22% increase compared to FY 2006
• 138 were Level 3 incidents with an average duration of 313 minutes
• 1,639 were Level 2 incidents with an average duration of 55 minutes
• 1,286 were Level 1 incidents with an average duration of 17 minutes
• 1,055 were scheduled roadwork
• 306 were within a work zone
• 11 were Ozone Alerts
• 9 were AMBER Alerts
• 327 involved big rigs
• 437 involved injuries
• 23 involved fatalities
• 58 involved DOT property damage
• 53 could be classified as secondary incidents
• 359 cited bad weather as a possible contributing factor
• TMC responded to 15,286 false incident alarms
• The TMC responded to 218 incidents on the I-70 corridor in Missouri outside the Scout area (not included in the above statistics)

Dynamic Message Signs (DMS)

• 9,559 activations
• 16,543 DMS messages were displayed

Web Site Messages

• 6,299 total messages were placed for incidents, including 1,288 for roadwork

Highway Advisory Radio (HAR) Useage

• Activated 4 times

Equipment Operability

• On average, 90% of the CCTV cameras were completely operational
• On average, 98% of the DMS were completely operational
• On average, 79% of the Detector Stations were completely operational, with 7% reporting some bad detectors. The remaining stations either reported all bad detectors or were not responding

Additional Information

• TMC operators logged 7,902 telephone calls with partner agencies.
• Customer Service Representatives logged 23,154 contacts from external and internal sources, including phone calls, E-mails, and walk-ins
• The Scout Web Site received 352,962 visits