INTERACTIVE HIGHWAY SAFETY DESIGN MODEL (IHSDM): DESIGNING HIGHWAYS WITH SAFETY IN MIND

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has designated Highway Safety Design Practices and Criteria as a high-priority research and development area. The objective of this program is to develop an integrated design process that systematically considers safety in developing and evaluating cost-effective highway design alternatives. Conceptually, the idea behind this research program is to develop a system that can be used to evaluate the safety of alternative highway designs in a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) environment. This evaluation would include an examination of the entire roadway design including both the roadway alignment and cross-section and the roadside design (side slopes, ditches, guardrails, utility poles, etc.). Work in this area has been under way for several years and this initial objective has grown from a rough concept into a well-defined research program that is aimed at developing a fully functional system called the Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM). This paper provides a status report on the IHSDM research program and presents the current vision of how a fully-functional IHSDM can improve the consideration of safety in the design process.

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    • Paniati, J F
    • True, J
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  • Publication Date: 1996-2

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  • English

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  • Features: Figures;
  • Pagination: p. 55-60
  • Monograph Title: ROADSIDE SAFETY ISSUES REVISITED
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  • Accession Number: 00721428
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS, TRB
  • Created Date: May 10 1996 12:00AM