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
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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