Application of Highway Safety Manual to Italian Divided Multilane Highways

In the framework of the European Union (EU) Directive on Road Infrastructure Safety Management, this paper will focus on ‘ranking of high accident concentration sections’ by analyzing the opportunity to adopt the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) approach. With this goal, a pilot project of network screening for Italian motorways using HSM is presented. The more appropriate HSM procedures are selected and calibrated that take into account Italian national factors. Results are evaluated using Safety Performance Functions (SPF) as a comparison that is developed directly with data for the specific Italian road infrastructure, which is assumed to provide more reliable estimates than HSM calibration.

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- Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
Authors:
- Cafiso, Salvatore
- Di Silvestro, Giacomo
- Di Guardo, Giovanni
Conference:
- SIIV-5th International Congress - Sustainability of Road Infrastructures 2012
- Location: Rome , Italy
- Date: 2012-10-29 to 2012-10-31
Publication Date: 2012-10-3

Language

English

Media Info

Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures; References; Tables;
Pagination: pp 911-920
Serial:
- Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Volume: 53
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 1877-0428
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770428/53
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Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Calibration; Divided highways; High risk locations; Highway safety; Multilane highways; Pilot studies
Identifier Terms: Highway Safety Manual; Safety Performance Functions
Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies;

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Accession Number: 01487473
Record Type: Publication
Files: TRIS
Created Date: Jun 27 2013 2:39PM