DELINEATING THE EDGE OF THE CARRIAGEWAY IN RURAL AREAS

THIS IS ONE OF THREE "IN-DEPTH STUDIES" APPENDED TO IRF'S 1971 WORLD SURVEY OF ROAD RESEARCH. ITS AUTHOR REMARKS THAT UNFORTUNATELY, DESPITE LARGE EXPENDITURES, RELATIVELY LITTLE IS DEFINITELY KNOWN ABOUT THE USEFULNESS OF CARRIAGEWAY DELINEATORS AS DRIVER AIDS. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER THEREFORE IS TO BRING TOGETHER SOME OF THE KNOWN INFORMATION ABOUT CARRIAGEWAY DELINEATION, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS UPON MARKING OF THE EDGE OF THE CARRIAGEWAY IN RURAL AREAS. IN ORDER TO GATHER INFORMATION FOR THIS PAPER, VISITS WERE PAID TO GOVERNMENTAL AND INDUSTRIAL PERSONNEL IN EIGHT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. IN ADDITION, AND WHERE CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE, DATA AND INFORMATION GATHERED FROM THE PUBLISHED LITERATURE IN THESE AND OTHER COUNTRIES ARE ALSO WERE REFERRED TO IN ORDER TO PUT THE EUROPEAN WORK IN PERSPECTIVE.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • pp 403-437, 4 FIG, 46 REF
• Corporate Authors:

  International Road Federation

  525 School Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20024
• Authors:
  • O'FLAHERTY, C A
• Publication Date: 1971-9

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drivers; Edge lines; Information management; Information, data, and knowledge; Reviews; Road markings; Rural highways
• Old TRIS Terms: Traffic marking
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00226182
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 10 1972 12:00AM