Safety Guarantee Technology for Township Sections of Arterial Highways Based on Traffic Safety Diagnosis

In China, guaranteeing traffic safety in township sections of arterial highways is an urgent and difficult problem. The study summarized in the present paper discusses a different type of safety guarantee technology based on traffic safety diagnosis and focused on existing conditions of the highway. The method first analyzes potential traffic safety problems of an arterial highway, and then designs a suitable traffic safety diagnosis table. Engineers can apply the diagnosis table to field surveys and score according to the significance and severity of the problem. The problems are then ranked according to weight in order to establish a priority order of the problems to be solved. Improvement countermeasures are offered based on that order, applying benefit-cost-ratio to rank and optimize those improvements. An arterial highway in Shanxi is improved with the guarantee technology. The approach is useful and feasible in China, and may change traditional ideas about traffic safety.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784412442.229
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Zhang, Wenbo
  • Ma, Yongfeng
  • Lu, Jianjohn
• Conference:
  • Twelfth COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals
  • Location: Beijing , China
  • Date: 2012-8-3 to 2012-8-6
• Publication Date: 2012-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 2257-2265
• Monograph Title: CICTP 2012: Multimodal Transportation Systems—Convenient, Safe, Cost-Effective, Efficient

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Evaluation and assessment; Safety engineering; Strategic planning; Traffic safety
• Geographic Terms: China
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01505375
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784412442
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Jan 27 2014 11:03AM