Growing Traffic in Rural America: Safety, Mobility and Economic Challenges in America's Heartland

This report examines the use, condition, and safety of the non-Interstate rural roads in the United States, based in part on a recent analysis of the totality of fatal rural traffic accidents in the five year period from 1999 to 2003. The report also investigates the measures some states are undertaking to improve traffic safety on rural roads, and ends with recommendations for reducing traffic fatalities on rural roads in the U.S.

• Record URL:
  http://www.fixnewyorkroads.com/uploads/TRIPRuralRoadsReport.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  The Road Information Program

  1726 M Street, NW, Suite 401
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Publication Date: 2005-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Maps; Tables;
• Pagination: 29p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Countermeasures; Economic impacts; Fatalities; Highway safety; Highway traffic; Mobility; Primary highways; Recommendations; Rural areas; Rural highways; State highways; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety; Utilization
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road condition
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01000358
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 19 2005 10:23AM