Development of a Driver Vehicle Module (DVM) for the Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM)

The Federal Highway Administration is currently developing an integrated set of software tools to improve highway design, the Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM). The IHSDM is a suite of software analysis tools for evaluating safety and operational effects of geometric design decisions on two-lane rural highways. The IHSDM provides highway project planners, designers, and reviewers in State and local departments of transportation and engineering consulting firms with a suite of safety evaluation tools to support these assessments. As currently implemented in the latest public release version, the IHSDM includes the following five components: (1) Policy Review Module, (2) Design Consistency Module, (3) Crash Prediction Module, (4) Traffic Analysis Module, and (5) Intersection Review Module. A sixth module, the Driver Vehicle Module (DVM), is a candidate for future release. This report provides a complete technical description of the DVM. Specifically, it provides a description of the specification, verification, and calibration/validation of the DVM for the passenger vehicle and the heavy vehicle component, along with additional functionality enhancements.

• Record URL:
  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/08019/index.cfm
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/38833
• Corporate Authors:

  Battelle

  1100 Dexter Avenue North
  Seattle, WA  United States  98109-3598

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Research and Technology Services, 6300 Georgetown Pike
  McLean, VA  United States  22101
• Authors:
  • Levison, William H
  • Campbell, John L
  • Kludt, Kelli
  • Bittner Jr, Alvah C
  • Potts, Ingrid
  • Harwood, Douglas W
  • Hutton, Jessica
  • Gilmore, David
  • Howe, J Gavin
  • Chrstos, Jeffrey P
  • Allen, R Wade
  • Kantowitz, Barry
  • Robbins, Tom
  • Schreiner, Chris
• Publication Date: 2007-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 94p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Geometric design; Highway design; Highway safety; Rural highways; Two lane highways
• Identifier Terms: Interactive Highway Safety Design Model
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver/vehicle module; Modules (Computer programs)
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01091310
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-HRT-08-019
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 17 2008 4:14PM