SAFETY FOR LOW VOLUME UNPAVED ROADS - A NEW WAY FOR SAFER ROADS

Modern societies have developed excellent practices and procedures for improving road safety but, most of these efforts have focused on safety issues on high volume paved roads. Worldwide, safety improvements are needed on low volume unpaved road safety. This paper also presents approaches used to improve local rural unpaved road safety. Safety improvements include definable benefits for the real world; benefits that are practical, needed and acceptable. The examples presented in this paper serve as guidelines to define, analyze, and solve existing safety problems. Although techniques to improve local unpaved road safety use proven technology, the acceptance of the approach reported in the paper will advance the state-of-the-art by developing into a format which can be used by "real world" practitioners. Case study surveys of practitioners, users and safety experts are presented to help define the proposed safety improvement program. A Delphi procedure was used to document the final analysis approach.

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• Corporate Authors:

  International Road Federation

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• Authors:
  • Wilson, E M
  • Sawyer, M B
• Conference:
  • XIIIth World meeting of the International Road Federation
  • Location: Toronto, Canada
  • Date: 1997-6-16 to 1997-6-20
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: n.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway safety; Improvements; Local transportation; Low volume roads; Rural highways; Safety engineering; Traffic; Unpaved roads
• Old TRIS Terms: Local traffic
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00750234
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 18 1998 12:00AM