Incident Response - Extraordinary incidents
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Extraordinary incidents
Extraordinary incidents take six hours or more to clear and have tremendous impacts on the commute, safety and the economy.
Source: Washington Incident Tracking System.
Performance analysis
2024 Q3
- 12 extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of 11 hours and 21 minutes.
- Comprised 5.0% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2024 Q2
- 13 extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of 7 hours and 50 minutes. The significant reduction on average clearance time for this quarter resulted from time spent on clearing up extraordinary incidents significantly faster this quarter.
- Comprised 4.2% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2024 Q1
- 14 extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of 10 hours and 10 minutes
- Comprised 5.4% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2023 Q4
- 11 extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of 10 hours and 8 minutes
- Comprised 4.4% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2023 Q3
- 13 extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of 11 hours and 16 minutes
- Comprised 5.2% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2023 Q2
- 14 extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of 12 hours and 47 minutes
- Comprised 6.7% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2023 Q1
- 8 extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of nine hours and 33 minutes
- Comprised 3.2% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2022 Q4
- 10 extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of 10 hours and 38 minutes
- Comprised 4.0% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2022 Q3
- Eight extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of nine hours and 48 minutes
- Comprised 4.4% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2022 Q2
- Eight extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of 11 hours and 33 minutes
- Comprised 4.0% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2022 Q1
- 11 extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of nine hours and 50 minutes
- Comprised 4.6% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2021 Q4
- Eight extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of eight hours and 57 minutes
- Comprised 2.9% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2021 Q3
- 12 extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of 11 hours and 13 minutes
- Comprised 5.0% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2021 Q2
- Seven extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of 8 hours and 11 minutes
- Comprised 2.2% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2021 Q1
- Nine extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of nine hours and 19 minutes
- Comprised 7.8% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2020 Q4
- Ten extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of 10 hours and 13 minutes
- Comprised 4.1% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2020 Q3
- Four extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of seven hours and 10 minutes
- Comprised 5.3% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2020 Q2
- Nine extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of nine hours and 30 minutes
- Comprised 4.5% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
2020 Q1
- Five extraordinary incidents
- Average clearance time of six hours and 25 minutes
- Comprised 7.8% of all incident-induced delay costs for the quarter
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