In this research study, a multi-stage Fuzzy Logic Controller (MS-FLC) is developed for traffic control for incident management on expressways. The MS-FLC serves as the traffic operator's decision-making support tool at the operational level.The MS-FLC gathers real-time traffic and incident data in order to analyze and predict traffic conditions as well as to suggest alternative control measures to the traffic operator in the form of linguistic expressions. The MS-FLC is embedded in a traffic simulator controller (TSC) prototype and is evaluated by comparing its performance with no control scenario and ALINEA\Q, a popular local ramp control algorithm, across several incident scenarios in a simulation environment. In general, the MS-FLC outperforms ALINEA\Q with respect to global objectives. In particular, whereas the ALINEA\Q algorithm favors the mainline, the MS-FLC algorithm significantly improves mainline travel conditions while substantially reduces ramp queues. It is concluded that, if properly designed the MS-FLC serves as a robust tool for traffic control on expressways under incident conditions.