Motorcycles, Trucks, Buses, and Roundabouts

This issue contains twelve papers concerned with motorcycles, trucks, buses, and roundabouts. Specific topics addressed in this issue include the following: horizontal curve design and motorcycle crash frequency; safety performance functions for motorcycle crashes; roundabout-related single-vehicle crashes; universal helmet law changes; horizontal curve design effects and injury severity; motorcycle helmet use; and heavy-vehicle crash rate analysis; transfer of training in basic control skills from truck simulator to real trucks. Additional topics addressed in this issue include: Bernoulli effect on bus controllability and driving safety; transition from differential to uniform speed limit for trucks and buses; driver navigation at turbo roundabouts and modern two-lane roundabouts; and two-lane roundabouts at freeway ramp terminals.

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• Publication Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 121p
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2637
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Buses; Highway design; Highway safety; Motorcycle helmets; Motorcycles; Motorcyclists; Roundabouts; Truck drivers; Trucks
• Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01628862
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309441650
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 14 2017 11:57AM