ACCIDENT MITIGATION GUIDE FOR CONGESTED RURAL TWO-LANE HIGHWAYS

This guide will assist planners, designers, and traffic engineers in identifying and designing projects to improve safety on congested rural two-lane highways. The guide assumes that widening the road to four lanes is not a practical solution because of financial, environmental, or societal constraints. Geometric, traffic control, and other types of countermeasures are discussed.

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• Authors:
  • Fitzpatrick, K
  • Balke, K
  • Harwood, D W
  • Anderson, I B
• Publication Date: 2000

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 170 p.
• Serial:
  • NCHRP Report
  • Issue Number: 440
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0077-5614
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Countermeasures; Geometric design; Guidelines; Highway safety; Highway traffic control; Rural highways; Traffic congestion; Traffic crashes; Two lane highways
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I73: Traffic Control; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00799068
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309066247
• Report/Paper Numbers: Project G17-15 FY '97
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Sep 29 2000 12:00AM