Motor Vehicle Crashes on the Sutong Yangtze River Highway Bridge

Bridges differ from surface streets and highways in terms of their physical properties and operational characteristics, which in turn, affect the risk of motor-vehicle crashes. This paper attempts to identify motor-vehicle crash patterns on Sutong Bridge and to compare differences between bridge-related crashes and all crashes. 459 crashes occurring on Sutong Bridge from May in 2008 to June in 2010 were collected and analyzed. Results reveal that bridge segment is involved in more fixed-object crashes and fewer rear-end crashes among total crash experience. And bridge-related crashes result in more serious consequences including higher fatality rate and longer crash duration.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784479384.371
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  • © 2015 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Cai, Xiaonan
  • Lu, Jian
  • Zhu, Shengxue
  • Jiang, Yuming
• Conference:
  • Fifth International Conference on Transportation Engineering
  • Location: Dalian , China
  • Date: 2015-9-26 to 2015-9-27
• Publication Date: 2015-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 2915-2920
• Monograph Title: ICTE 2015

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash analysis; Crash characteristics; Highway bridges; Traffic crashes
• Identifier Terms: Sutong Bridge (China)
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01577512
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784479384
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Sep 30 2015 9:07AM