SYMPOSIUM ON GEOMETRIC ROAD DESIGN STANDARDS - SESSION IV- ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF DESIGN STANDARDS

The following papers were presented at this session of the conference on geometric road design standards - policy making on road design standards, Flury, FC; Aspects related to effects of geometric design standards on the road construction costs, Trapp, KH; Relationship of geometric standards to the economics and performance of loops and links at major junctions, Brooks, JA and Wallin, RC; Selection of cross-section under consideration of the shortage of financial resources, Lind, G; Economic study of the selection of the width of the central reserve on 2+2-lane rural roads, Gambard, JM; The economic evaluation of crawler lanes, McCallum, DG; A cost/benefit model for roadside hazard treatment, Cooper, P; Traffic operation at roadworks on dual-carriageways, Mathews, DH and Maclean, AD; The effect of the energy crisis on highway geometric design, Pilkington, GB. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

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• Publication Date: 1976

Language

• French

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 11-152
• Serial:
  • Traffic Injury Research Foundation of Canada
  • Publisher: Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Conferences; Construction; Costs; Cross sections; Design standards; Divided highways; Economic conditions; Economic impacts; Energy resources; Hazards; Highway design; Highway operations; Intersections; Layout; Mathematical models; Medians; Policy; Road construction; Roadside improvement; Rural highways; Standards; Traffic
• Uncontrolled Terms: Construction costs; Energy crisis
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 2855: Highway design; 2885: Layout; 6473: Mathematical model; 9150: Risk; 187: Specification (standard)
• Subject Areas: Construction; Design; Economics; Energy; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00153293
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 20 1977 12:00AM