GUIDELINES FOR MEDIAN PLACEMENT AND TREATMENT TYPE: VOLUME 2

Within the previous five years, the Florida Department of Transportation has completed the construction of roadway median modifications to several corridors within District 5. These include SR 423 (Orange County), SR 520 (Brevard County), SR 600/US 92 (Volusia County) and SR 436 (Seminole County). Improvements to the medians were supported through the use of various traffic analyses and traffic modeling efforts. These analyses indicated that subject corridors were in need of median improvements for various reasons: to better facilitate the flow of traffic along the roadway and entering and exiting the roadway; to decrease accidents; and to improve response time of public service providers to emergency situations. This paper provides further analysis of these activities from a post-implementation perspective.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Gwynn Jr, D W
• Conference:
  • Institute of Transportation Engineers 67th annual Meeting
  • Location: Boston, MA
  • Date: 1997-8-3 to 1997-8-7
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Tables;
• Pagination: n.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Consumers; Data collection; Disasters and emergency operations; Emergency response time; Guidelines; Hazards and emergency operations; Improvements; Land use; Medians; Reaction time; Safety; Socioeconomic factors; Surveys; Traffic flow; Traffic safety; Transportation corridors
• Uncontrolled Terms: Users
• Geographic Terms: Florida
• Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Society; Terminals and Facilities; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00751632
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 12 1998 12:00AM