Route 1 Gateway Project - Safety Enhancements to Existing Sections

The Route 1 Gateway Project (R1GP) was a $580 million Private Public Partnership (P3) between Dexter Developer General Partnership (DDGP) and the Province of New Brunswick, with financial assistance from the Federal Government. The Project Agreement was signed in March 2010 and the work was completed in December 2012, seven months ahead of schedule. Included in the project was an Operation Maintenance and Rehabilitation (OMR) agreement that requires the Operator to accept full OMR responsibility of Route 1 to 2040. Route 1 is an Arterial highway in NB taking passengers and cargo between Atlantic Canada and the New England states. It extends from the US border at St. Stephen thru Saint John to Route 2 at Riverglade. The Project included the construction of 55 km of new 120km/h design speed 4-lane highway and selected upgrades to 180 km of existing sections of 4-lane highway. This report will focus on the safety enhancements to reach a 120km/h design speed to the 180 km of existing 4-lane highway. Since not all of the safety enhancements could be completed, details will be provided regarding how certain ones were selected. Also the benefits of the enhancements will be discussed along with the usefulness of the process to other jurisdictions. This project was nominated for the TAC 2013 Road Safety Engineering Award. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD record number 201310RT334E.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.tac-atc.ca/english/annualconference/tac2013/session17/clowater.pdf
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)

  401-1111 Prince of Wales Drive
  Ottawa, Ontario  Canada 
• Conference:
  • 2013 CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION OF THE TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION OF CANADA - TRANSPORTATION: BETTER - FASTER - SAFER
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 6 p.
• Monograph Title: 2013 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada - Transportation: Better - Faster - Safer

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Design speed; Financing; Highways; Improvements; Layout; Planning; Public private partnerships; Safety
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 8018: Canada; 8525: Conference; 635: Design speed; 244: Financing; 2755: Highway; 9108: Improvement; 2885: Layout; 143: Planning; 172: Public private partnership; 1665: Safety
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01518049
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD, TAC
• Created Date: Mar 11 2014 10:59AM