SPEED ANALYSIS OF ACCIDENTS ON INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS

AN ANALYSIS OF ACCIDENTS, SPEED, AND RELATED TRAFFIC PARAMETERS ON RURAL AND URBAN PORTIONS OF THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM IS PRESENTED IN THIS ARTICLE. THE RESEARCH WHICH WAS CONCERNED WITH SINGLE- VEHICLE ACCIDENTS ON BETWEEN-INTERCHANGE UNITS OF THE INTERSTATE SYSTEM SUBSTANTIATED EARLIER BELIEFS THAT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SPEED OF A VEHICLE BEFORE AN ACCIDENT AND THE SEVERITY OF THE ACCIDENT IS GENERALLY DIRECT. A SIGNIFICANTLY GREATER DIFFERENCE IN SPEEDS WAS INDICATED BETWEEN TWO ACCIDENT-INVOLVED VEHICLES THAN BETWEEN TWO RANDOMLY SELECTED VEHICLES.

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• Authors:
  • Beatty, R L
• Publication Date: 1972-12

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 89-102
• Serial:
  • Public Roads
  • Volume: 37
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
  • ISSN: 0033-3735
  • Serial URL: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash severity; Speed; Studies; Traffic crashes; Traffic speed
• Identifier Terms: Interstate Highway System
• Uncontrolled Terms: Speed differential
• Old TRIS Terms: Speed studies
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00222122
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 30 1973 12:00AM