PRELIMINARY EVALUATIONS OF SAFETY TREATMENTS ON RURAL HIGHWAYS IN TEXAS

This report documents activities in Phase III of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Project 0-4048, which focused on before-and-after evaluations of safety treatments installed between 1995 and 2000 at 50 locations on rural highways in Texas. Evaluations employed a review of the crash history at each site to determine the effectiveness of the treatment. On the whole, treatments reduced preventable crashes by 15% and preventable injury crashes by 31%.

• Record URL:
  http://tti.tamu.edu/documents/0-4048-5.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Project Title: Before and After Evaluation of Safety Treatments on Rural Highways.
• Corporate Authors:

  Texas Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System, Information Technology Exchange Center
  College Station, TX  United States  77843

  Texas Department of Transportation

  Research and Technology Implementation Office, P.O. Box 5080
  Austin, TX  United States  78763-5080

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Brewer, M A
  • Fitzpatrick, K
• Publication Date: 2004-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 107 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Before and after studies; Crash rates; Highway safety; Improvements; Rural highways
• Geographic Terms: Texas
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00987705
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/TX-05/0-4048-5,, Technical Report 0-4048-5
• Contract Numbers: Project 0-4048
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Mar 15 2005 12:00AM