STUDY OF RURAL FREEWAY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS FOR STRANDED MOTORISTS

THE USEFULNESS OF A ROADSIDE MOTORIST AID TELEPHONE SYSTEM TO STRANDED MOTORISTS ON A RURAL FREEWAY WAS DETERMINED, AND THE NEEDS OF MOTORIST WHO STOP ON THE FACILITY WERE RECORDED. OPERATIONAL ASPECTS AND MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES REQUIRED OF SUCH A SYSTEM WERE REVIEWED. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Tsd-tr-132-70, 100-41-30-10-4557-022
• Corporate Authors:

  Michigan Department of State Highways

  State Highways Building, PO Drawer K
  Lansing, MI  United States  48904

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Roth, W J
• Publication Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communications; Disasters and emergency operations; Drivers; Hazards and emergency operations; Motorist aid systems; Rural highways; Telephone
• Old TRIS Terms: Stranded motorists
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00224978
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 1 1971 12:00AM