TYPICAL ACCIDENT RATES FOR RURAL PASSING LANES AND UNSEALED ROADS

National accident records and road description databases are used to calculate accident rates (expressed as the number of reported injury accidents per 100 million kilometres) for some selected types of road. Rates were calculated for three classes of passing lane on rural sections of New Zealand state highways, and for rural unsealed sections of state highways and local roads. Where there was sufficient data, rates were also calculated for several traffic volume and terrain severity sub-categories. While apparently sound indicative results were obtained in some cases, there was too much uncertainty in database matching of accident locations to allow confidence in many of the sub-category rates. It is recommended that similar studies not be undertaken until database information is improved. (a)

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  California Transit Association

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• Authors:
  • MCLARIN, M W
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 30 p.
• Serial:
  • TRANSFUND NEW ZEALAND RESEARCH REPORT
  • Issue Number: 89
  • Publisher: California Transit Association
  • ISSN: 1174-0574

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash rates; Passing; Rural areas; Traffic lanes; Unpaved roads
• Uncontrolled Terms: Unsurfaced road
• Geographic Terms: New Zealand
• ITRD Terms: 1612: Accident rate; 2986: Low cost road; 8079: New Zealand; 1822: Overtaking; 328: Rural area; 2827: Traffic lane
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00764504
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0-478-10547-9
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: May 28 1999 12:00AM