Intersection and Junction Fatalities in the Context of Access Management

The impetus for this paper three sets of intersection fatality statistics for the same year collected from George E. (Ed) Rice, Jr., Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Office of Safety, Kenneth Kobetsky, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO); and Edward Stollof, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), for a presentation at a Transportation Research Board meeting in January 2008. A more appropriate definition of targeted intersection-related crash types for safety improvements and comparisons by the transportation engineering and safety professions and organizations would help provide consistent, useful analyses for measuring, planning and coordinating safety efforts, especially when using fatality numbers from the same resources, in particular, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database. It is critical to understand and investigate the differences and source of differences in various numbers used and developed by each respective organization and staff. The outcome should be an agreement for a common set of elements that comprise what are being reported as intersection fatalities and, in a larger context, junction fatalities. It appears that the difference in the “intersection fatality” statistics is the way access-related fatalities are reported with respect to junctions. This is a very important concept from a nomenclature standpoint. The word, “intersections” has been used generically and perhaps myopically by various organizations assessing safety status and progress with respect to this location-type classification of fatalities. As this paper will demonstrate, there are upstream, downstream and proximity effects that have both access relationships and other relationships to junctions. The safety community needs to track annually not only intersection and intersection-related fatalities, but all-junction related fatalities, more comprehensively, at a subunit level, including access-related fatalities, interchange and highway-rail fatalities.

• Record URL:
  http://www.accessmanagement.info/AM08/AM0811Stollof/AM0811Stollof.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Stollof, Edward R
• Conference:
  • 8th National Conference on Access Management
  • Location: Baltimore MD
  • Date: 2008-7-13 to 2008-7-16
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 29p
• Monograph Title: 8th National Conference on Access Management, July 13-16, 2008, Baltimore, MD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Access control (Transportation); Crash rates; Fatalities; Highway safety; Intersections
• Identifier Terms: Fatality Analysis Reporting System
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control; I81: Accident Statistics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01478090
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 15 2013 1:14PM