MEASURES OF SITE HAZARD - HAZARDOUS MANEUVERS
This paper describes hazardous maneuvers and their possible utilization to evaluate hazard of roadway sites. Some established hazardous maneuvers are erratic maneuvers, traffic conflicts, near-miss and hazardous regions of vehicle pairs. Hazard is defined as an occurrence function. The possible output consists of a continuous range of manifest severity events--accidents, hazardous and borderline maneuvers. An interval of that range is described by a subfunction of the occurrence function. The input consists of driver, environment and vehicle (DEV) variables. A random variable is interrelated with the DEV variables in the occurrence function forming complex interactions. In a comprehensive hazard reduction program, the concept of hazardous maneuvers is only a subset of the total hazard. Remedial techniques would be applied to the DEV variables as suggested by models of occurrence subfunctions and conventional traffic engineering studies.
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Corporate Authors:
Pergamon Press, Incorporated
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Authors:
- Shimada, J K
- Publication Date: 1974-12
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 309-315
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Serial:
- Accident Analysis & Prevention
- Volume: 6
- Issue Number: 3/4
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0001-4575
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Driving instructors; Hazards; High risk locations; Mathematical models; Near crashes; Near midair crashes; Prevention; Safety; Traffic conflicts
- Uncontrolled Terms: Models
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00096153
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
- Report/Paper Numbers: HS-016 313
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jul 15 1975 12:00AM