Download or read book Analysis of Policies for Safety Improvements on Low volume Rural Roadways written by Schwartz, David J. and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to determine the adequacy with which safety problems on low-volume rural roadways were addressed by the four states of Federal Region VII (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska), a review was made of the states' safety policies. After reviewing literature dealing with the identification of hazardous locations, evaluation methodologies, and system-wide safety improvements, a survey of the states' safety policies was conducted. An official from each state was questioned about the various aspects and procedures dealing with safety improvements. After analyzing and comparing the remarkably diverse policies, recommendations were made in the form of a model safety program. This program included special modifications that would help remediate hazards on low-volume rural roadways. Especially encouraged is a system-wide approach to improvement which would cover all parts of the highway system, not just urban and high-volume roadways.

Download or read book Analysis of Policies for Safety Improvements on Low volume Rural Roadways Final Report written by D. J. Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Safety Improvements for Low Volume Rural Roads written by Don L. Ivey and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alternative Strategies for Safety Improvement Investments written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB"s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Results Digest 345: Alternate Strategies for Safety Improvement Investments explores the "black spot" analysis and "systematic" methods currently being used by states to help make decisions on the allocation of safety resources.

Download or read book Roadway Safety Tools for Local Agencies written by Eugene Madison Wilson and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 321: Roadway Safety Tools for Local Agencies examines the safety tools and procedures that are practical and relatively easy to apply, and that can be implemented by agencies with limited financial support and personnel. Recognizing the wide variation in the operations and responsibilities of local agencies, the report acknowledges that the level of expertise in transportation safety analysis also varies greatly.

Download or read book Highway Safety Management written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 13 papers that explore sustainable safety, road safety policies, safety impacts of traffic management operations, managing safety in traffic analysis zones, and reducing crash fatalities on rural roadways. This issue of the TRR also examines road safety audits of low-volume roads, safety improvement through speed management, mitigating real-time hazards on urban expressways, traffic safety training for local agency technical staff and elected and appointed officials, passenger drop-off capacity, school travel mode choice, and active travel intervention with small populations.

Download or read book Guidelines for Roadside Safety on Rural Low volume Roads written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of barrier and guardrail design, and/or use, is a very complicated subject, open to many different designs and guidelines. Barrier rail considerations are a subset of roadside safety treatments. There are many sophisticated computer models now available to evaluate roadside safety, for example, ROADSIDE. The results of recent research have provided reasonably good guidelines for roadside safety, barrier rail and end treatments on state highways and other major roads. Generally these sophisticated models and guidelines do not apply to Low-Volume Rural Roads (LVRR). Local governments have tens of thousands of miles of LVRR where rights-of way are narrow, clear zones and traversable slopes cannot be provided and budgets are inadequate for a multitude of competing problems. The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) contracted with the authors to review the state-of-the-art of roadside safety, interview local road personnel, study local roadside situations and develop guidelines on low-volume roads, roadside safety and barrier rail use. The computer program ROADSIDE was adapted to LVRR conditions and simplified guidelines for its use were developed for LVRR conditions. Finally, for those road jurisdictions requiring more simple guidelines, without the use of complicated computer program, computer results basesd on a range of LVRR conditions were complied and presented in a manual for easy use by personnel with responsibility for LVRR safety. The paper presents the results of the study, the highlights of the manual and the background material on which it was based. For the covering abstract of this conference see IRRD number 872978.

Download or read book University Transportation Centers Project Abstracts written by University Transportation Centers Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Safety Strategies for Rural Roads written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following an in-depth review of the characteristics of road crashes in rural areas, the book proposes a series of safety measures, focusing on infrastructure management, enforcement, innovative tools, such as intelligent transport systems, and trauma management.

Download or read book Safety Analysis of Low volume Rural Roads in Iowa written by Reginald R. Souleyrette and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iowa features an extensive surface transportation system, with more than 110,000 miles of roadway, most of which is under the jurisdiction of local agencies. Given that Iowa is a lower-population state, most of this mileage is located in rural areas that exhibit low traffic volumes of less than 400 vehicles per day. However, these low-volume rural roads also account for about half of all recorded traffic crashes in Iowa, including a high percentage of fatal and major injury crashes. This study was undertaken to examine these crashes, identify major contributing causes, and develop low-cost strategies for reducing the incidence of these crashes. Iowa's extensive crash and roadway system databases were utilized to obtain needed data. Using descriptive statistics, a test of proportions, and crash modeling, various classes of rural secondary roads were compared to similar state of Iowa controlled roads in crash frequency, severity, density, and rate for numerous selected factors that could contribute to crashes. The results of this study allowed the drawing of conclusions as to common contributing factors for crashes on low-volume rural roads, both paved and unpaved. Due to identified higher crash statistics, particular interest was drawn to unpaved rural roads with traffic volumes greater that 100 vehicles per day. Recommendations for addressing these crashes with low-cost mitigation are also included. Because of the isolated nature of traffic crashes on low-volume roads, a systemic or mass action approach to safety mitigation was recommended for an identified subset of the entire system. In addition, future development of a reliable crash prediction model is described.

Download or read book Gravel Roads written by Ken Skorseth and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this manual is to provide clear and helpful information for maintaining gravel roads. Very little technical help is available to small agencies that are responsible for managing these roads. Gravel road maintenance has traditionally been "more of an art than a science" and very few formal standards exist. This manual contains guidelines to help answer the questions that arise concerning gravel road maintenance such as: What is enough surface crown? What is too much? What causes corrugation? The information is as nontechnical as possible without sacrificing clear guidelines and instructions on how to do the job right.

Download or read book Identification Quantification and Structuring of Two lane Rural Highway Safety Problems and Solutions Volume II Physical and Safety Characteristics of Two lane Rural Highways Final Report written by S. A. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Safety Improvement Program for Local Low Volume Rural Unpaved Roads written by Raymond Craig Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guidelines for Geometric Design of Very Low volume Local Roads ADT less Than Or Equal to Symbol 400 written by American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and published by Aashto. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Safety Improvement Program for Rural Unpaved Roads written by Raymond Craig Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Economics of Design Standards for Low volume Rural Roads written by Clarkson Hill Oglesby and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he objective of this study is to examine prevailing rural design standards to determine their economic justification. This would evaluate in depth the cost of some of the most significant design practices (for example, roadway and shoulder width and surfacing type). Resulting user benefits, such as operating, accident and time savings would be weighed against the cost of individual features. In addition to the analysis of the user-benefit relationships, the economic and social consequences to local residents, businesses and communities should be studied and a suitable means of including them in the reckoning of warranted levels of improvement should be found.

Download or read book Argentina Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information written by IBP USA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argentina Investment and Business Guide - Strategic and Practical Information