HOW EFFECTIVE ARE CRASH CUSHIONS IN REDUCING DEATHS AND INJURIES?
In the last 20 years crash cushions have become fairly common features on major, high-volume highways throughout the United States. Typically, these attenuation devices are located immediately in front of massive, nonforgiving structures such as exit gores and bridge piers. Full-scale laboratory crash tests indicate that these devices should be highly effective in reducing deaths and injuries. Several previous studies have considered the real-world performance of crash cushions, but none has provided statistical estimates of the benefits attributable to these devices. The analyses that follow provide these statistical estimates, based upon a procedure developed in 1968.
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Corporate Authors:
Federal Highway Administration
Office of Research and Development, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Griffin LI III
- Publication Date: 1984-3
Media Info
- Features: Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 132-134
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Serial:
- Public Roads
- Volume: 47
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
- ISSN: 0033-3735
- Serial URL: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/
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Publication flags:
Open Access (libre)
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Analysis; Chemical reduction; Crash cushions; Fatalities; Guardrails; Highways; Injuries; Measures of effectiveness; Prevention; Roads; Safety; Statistical analysis; Statistics; Traffic safety
- Uncontrolled Terms: Effectiveness
- Old TRIS Terms: Highway systems; Reduction
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I85: Safety Devices used in Transport Infrastructure;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00387328
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Engineering Index
- Report/Paper Numbers: HS-036 916
- Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Sep 28 1984 12:00AM