GUIDEBOOK FOR SAFER RURAL ROADS

More than 62 percent of Texas highways are rural two-lane roads. But while they carry less than eight percent of the total vehicle miles on state-maintained highways, they account for about 11 percent of total on-system vehicle crashes. Working with the Texas Department of Transportation's Brownwood and Childress districts, the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) came up with a guidebook aimed at addressing safety treatments for high-crash locations on rural two- lane highways in the state. This article describes the guidebook, which documents crash characteristics for rural roads, identifies low-cost safety treatments, and presents experiences with particular treatments.

• Record URL:
  • http://tti.tamu.edu/documents/researcher/ttr-v39-n1.pdf
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• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/1587330
• Corporate Authors:

  Texas Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System, 1600 E Lamar Boulevard
  Arlington, TX  United States  76011
• Authors:
  • Fitzpatrick, K
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 10
• Serial:
  • Texas Transportation Researcher
  • Volume: 39
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Texas Transportation Institute
  • ISSN: 0040-4748

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashes; Highway safety; Rural highways
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00944136
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 2 2003 12:00AM