RELATIONSHIP OF OVERALL GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS TO THE SAFETY LEVEL OF RURAL HIGHWAYS
The article is concerned with two-lane rural highways and discusses an analytical tool for evaluating the safety implications of various roadway designs. This tool analyzes several overall geometric measures that represent the horizontal and vertical alignment design characteristics of a road and relates these measures to a parameter of roadway safety. Relating safety to overall measures of road geometry enables consideration of the geometric features of an entire road section. A prediction of the level of safety, utilizing a multiple regression technique, is performed in terms of the overall spacial geometric measures.
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Corporate Authors:
Eno Transportation Foundation
P.O. Box 2055, Saugatuck Station
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Authors:
- Polus, A
- Publication Date: 1980-10
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 555-585
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Serial:
- Traffic Quarterly
- Volume: 34
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: Eno Transportation Foundation
- ISSN: 0041-0713
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Analysis; Geometric design; Highway engineering; Highway safety; Mathematical models; Multiple regression analysis; Roads; Rural areas; Rural highways; Traffic crashes; Two lane highways
- Uncontrolled Terms: Rural conditions
- Old TRIS Terms: Analytical method; Multiple regression
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00331354
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: HS-030 605
- Files: HSL, TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 15 1983 12:00AM