Self-Enforcing Roadways

n January 2018, the Federal Highway Administration published a report, Self-Enforcing Roadways: A Guidance Report (FHWA-HRT-17-098), which provides details on how to produce “self-enforcing” roadways. A self-enforcing road, also called a self-explaining roadway, is planned and designed to encourage drivers to select operating speeds consistent with the posted speed limit. Engineers can apply the concepts to both planned and existing roadways. This article summarizes several of the concepts that transportation professionals may use to manage speeds on two-lane rural highways; however, many of the concepts may also be applicable to other roadway types.

• Record URL:
  https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/19autumn/01.cfm
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/1586080
• Authors:
  • Donnell, Eric
  • Kersavage, Kristin
  • Zineddin, Abdul
• Publication Date: 2018

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: n.p.
• Serial:
  • Public Roads
  • Volume: 82
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
  • ISSN: 0033-3735
  • Serial URL: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash causes; Crash rates; Design speed; Geometric design; Highway design; Highway safety; Operating speed; Speed control; Speed limits; Speed signs; Traffic crashes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Self enforcing roadways
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01685863
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 20 2018 10:17AM