A PRACTICAL SAFETY APPROACH TO HIGHWAY GEOMETRIC DESIGN INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDIES: GERMANY, GREECE, LEBANON, AND THE UNITED STATES
A practical procedure, which considers safety rules and criteria for the safety evaluation of new designs, redesigns, and restoration, rehabilitation or resurfacing (RRR) projects, is presented in this paper. The procedure is based on statistical investigations of speeds and design parameters in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. The main components of the procedure are: operating speed backgrounds, relation design backgrounds, skid-resistance backgrounds, and driving dynamic backgrounds, for tangents, curves, and transitions to curves, for different roadway types and topography classes. The procedure presented in this paper provides interrelationships between design parameters, driving behavior, and driving dynamics, in order to determine sound roadway alignments and/or to detect poor ones, and to positively influence the accident situation.
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Authors:
- Lamm, R
- Psarianos, B
- Choueiri, E M
- Soilemezoglou, G
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Conference:
- International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design Practices
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts
- Date: 1995-8-30 to 1995-9-1
- Publication Date: 1998-1
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 9:1-14
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Circular
- Issue Number: E-C003
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0097-8515
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Alignment; Behavior; Case studies; Driving; Dynamics; Geometric design; Highway curves; Highway design; Highway safety; Operating speed; Skid resistance; Tangents; Transition curves
- Geographic Terms: Germany; Greece; Lebanon; United States
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00794666
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: E-C003
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Jun 9 2000 12:00AM