SAFE TRAVELLING SUPPORT SYSTEM ON HANSHIN EXPRESSWAY

The Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation (HEPC) has already installed systems for preventing secondary accidents at six places on its expressway, producing a favorable result in reducing the rate of secondary accidents to the total number of accidents. The HEPC has this time developed a new Safe Traveling Support system. It measures each vehicle speed and calls attention of a speeding vehicle based on a reference speed according to the wetness condition of the roadway surface and installed it on a trial basis. This paper reports the results of verifying its comprehensive accident preventing measures such as the use of porous asphalt pavement and deceleration markings in curved sections and analyzing the distribution of speed data collected by the experimental system. For the covering abstract see ITRD E114174.

• Corporate Authors:

  ERTICO

  326 Avenue Louis
  Brussels,   Belgium  B-1050

  ITS America

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  Washington, DC  United States  20036

  VERTIS

  TORANOMOM 34 MORI BUILDING 1-25-5
  TORANOMON, MINATOKU, TOKYO 105  Japan 
• Authors:
  • SAGARA, T
  • MATSUO, T
  • HAYASHIDA, M
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE 7TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
  • Location: Turin , Italy
  • Date: 2000-11-6 to 2000-11-9
• Publication Date: 2000

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 8 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asphalt; Conferences; Freeways; Intelligent transportation systems; Pavements; Porous materials; Prevention; Road markings; Safety; Skid resistance; Speed; Speed limits; Surface course (Pavements); Surveillance; Traffic restraint; Wet weather
• Uncontrolled Terms: Wet pavements
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• ITRD Terms: 1661: Accident prevention; 562: Carriageway marking; 8525: Conference; 8735: Intelligent transport system; 8053: Japan; 2752: Motorway; 4946: Porous asphalt; 3031: Skid resistance; 5408: Speed; 624: Speed limit; 9101: Surveillance; 633: Traffic restraint; 3015: Wet road
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00931826
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Oct 3 2002 12:00AM