Field Study for Velocity Control Effect by Utilizing Visible Appearing Measures against Traffic Accidents

On expressways in Japan, In order to call for attention and keep safe traffic, a lot of traffic accident measures such as large sign boards have been installed; however, traffic accidents still occur frequently especially at high-accident locations. Therefore, as the new countermeasures, visually appealing equipment such as highly visible lane marking and vision-guided system with light emitting delineator that are expected to restrain excess traffic velocity, a major cause of traffic accidents, are installed to examine; also, in order to analyze the effects of velocity control by each equipment, traffic velocity data before and after the installment are collected and compared. As the results, it is confirmed that the ratio of vehicles with excess velocity are decreased that means there are some certain effects on velocity restraint with the both measures.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract used with permission of ITS Japan. Paper No. 3083.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS Japan

  Tokyo,   Japan 
• Authors:
  • Matsushita, Takeshi
  • Imashiro, Minoru
  • Iwatsuki, Masahide
• Conference:
  • 20th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Tokyo , Japan
  • Date: 2013-10-14 to 2013-10-18
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: 20th ITS World Congress, Tokyo 2013. Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Countermeasures; Field tests; Traffic control devices; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety; Traffic speed; Velocity; Visibility
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01538499
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9784990493981
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 25 2014 9:02AM