Download or read book Correlation of Design and Control Characteristics with Accidents at Rural Multi lane Highway Intersections in Indiana Interim Report written by P. A. Van Maren and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correlation of Design and Control Characteristics with Accidents at Rural Multi lane Highway Intersections written by Peter A. Van Maren and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correlation of Design and Control Characteristics with Accidents at Rural Multi lane Highway Intersections in Indiana written by Peter A. Van Maren and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-one rural multi-lane intersections throughout Indiana were studied. Thirty-nine intersections were randomly selected from all such intersections in the state and twenty-two were submitted by the Indiana State Highway Commission. Geometric, accident and traffic volume data were collected from each intersection. The average rural multi-lane highway intersection had four times the number of accidents than the average rural intersection. The following findings were made about the randomly selected rural multi-lane highway intersections: unsignalized intersections were found to have a lower accident rate, median barriers and large intersections were found to increase the accident rate, and as the size of stop sign on the minor road increased, accidents decreased. The following findings are applicable to high accident signalized multi-lane intersections: the presence of stop line pavement markings decreased the accident rate; route markers and/or signal ahead advance warning signs on the minor road reduced the right angle accident rate; and a horizontal curve on the major road and/or a skew of the two roadways were found to increase the accident rate considerably.
Download or read book Evaluation of Design and Control Alternatives to Improve Safety of Intersections of Multi lane Highways with Other Highways written by Harold L. Michael and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of 18 high accident intersections in Indiana.
Download or read book Operational Impacts of Median Width on Larger Vehicles written by Douglas W. Harwood and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2000 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This synthesis report will be of interest to officials and staff of municipal, regional, and statewide transportation agencies responsible for roadway design and traffic control. It will be of special interest to those concerned with intersections and driveways on divided highways where larger vehicles encounter narrow medians. It will also be of interest to other professionals who interact with these agencies to mitigate such problems. This report presents state-of-the-practice information about current median design policies and practices, describes the traffic operational and safety problems encountered in designing for larger vehicles at divided highway intersections, and identifies alternative improvement techniques that can be used in new construction or reconstruction projects to avoid introducing traffic operational and safety problems. This TRB report focuses on 10 alternative cross sections widely used on arterial highways in urban, suburban, and rural environment.
Download or read book Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analysis and Methods for Improvement of Safety at High Speed Rural Intersections written by Andrew P. Tarko and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2006, INDOT has been preparing an annual five-percent report that identifies intersections and segments on Indiana state roads that require attention due to the excessive number and severity of crashes. Many of the identified intersections are two-way, stop-controlled intersections located on high-speed, multi-lane, rural roads. Some contributing design and human factors have been identified while other factors still await investigation. Multivariate ordered probit models have been developed to help identify additional factors of the frequency and severity of crashes. These models can estimate how much different factors increase the frequency of crashes at several levels of injury severity (fatal/incapacitating, non-incapacitating/ possible, property-damage-only). They have a unique ability to account for unobserved but common conditions that affect all of the crash severity levels. Recommendations for safety countermeasures are made based on both of these research results and our study of published reports of other authors.
Download or read book Compendium of Student Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safety Performance of Rural Intersections with Atypical Design Characteristics written by Anthony Ingle and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The results described in this dissertation represent a culmination of the efforts in the study of safety performance at rural intersections with atypical design characteristics. The specificity of this topic does not limit its relevance to intersection safety and the science of relating infrastructure traits to failure risks. Statistical modelling is used to predict average crash frequency. The model specification uses attributes such as the average annual daily traffic (AADT) on the major and minor road approaches, among other characteristics, to account for the exposure to crashes of various defined types and severities.The atypical intersection geometries studied herein consist of offset-T, curved corner, highly skewed, and multi-leg with five or more intersection legs. All of the intersections studied are minor road stop-controlled, along two-lane two-way rural highways. An effort is made to summarize the outcomes in practically applicable terminology such as Crash Modification Factors (CMFs) so that the conclusions of this study can lend toward a safer transportation future.The investigation into offset-T intersections utilizes a series of random intercept negative binomial models for crash occurrence that was generated based on 10 years of crash data from a sample of 299 offset-T intersections and 301 four-leg intersections with minor stop-control along rural two-lane highways in Michigan. The search for candidate intersections was exhaustive, considering that both major and minor road AADT was desired for each site. The modeling technique used a random effect for each site (location). Models were developed for total (non-animal) intersection crashes, as well as for single motor vehicle, angle, and rear-end crash types. The effects of offset distance and direction were analyzed and incorporated into the models. Compared to conventional four-leg intersections, offset-T intersections exhibited 35 percent more crashes regardless of the offset distance or direction. Considering crash types, single motor vehicle crashes occurred more frequently at offset-T intersections, and increased as the offset distance increased. Rear end crashes also occurred more frequency at offset-T intersections, with left offsets having more crash occurrence than right offsets. However, angle crashes are 40 to 69 percent lower at offset-T intersections due to the elimination of the direct crossing maneuver. The CMF for converting an existing offset-T into a conventional four-leg intersection is 0.74 within the studied ranges of offset direction and distance. This equivalates to a 26 percent reduction in total (non-animal) crash frequency. At curved corner intersections, a random intercept negative binomial models for crash occurrence used geographic region as a random effect. A total intersection crash (non-animal) model was generated based on 10 years of crash data from a sample of 227 three-leg sites and 65 four-leg sites among curved corner intersection geometry only. Reliance on the availability of minor road AADT so severely limited the sample population that an estimation of minor road AADT was made in order to proceed with modeling. A minor road AADT estimation model uses national functional classification as well as surface type, population density, and major road traffic volume to estimate the minor road traffic. A table of CMFs is presented for potentially converting an existing configuration into a combined/merged approach that is consistent with a traditional countermeasure from MDOT Geometric Design Guidelines. At curved corner intersections, installing a combined/merged intersection approach near the midpoint of the curve is a potential countermeasure that can be expected to reduce the average intersection crash frequency by 25 percent for three-leg configurations. A larger radius of curvature along the curved segment at these types of intersections is also very favorable for safety performance. Each 100-foot increase in the radius of a three-leg or four-leg curved corner intersection is estimated to reduce crash occurrence by 5 percent and 8 percent respectively.The safety influence of intersection skew angle on rural two-lane two-way facilities was evaluated by calibrating crash modification factors. Ten years of crash history among federal aid and non-federal aid highways was used to develop crash modification functions at three-leg and four-leg stop-controlled intersections. Skew angle was investigated as a parameter in the SPF models both as a continuous variable, with observed values ranging from 0 to 80 degrees, and categorized into ranges. A few transformations of the skew parameter were considered such as the flexible form model having skew interaction with AADT (annual average daily traffic), and a Hoerl curve. Both three-leg and four-leg intersections exhibited an initially increasing trend of crash rates followed by a decreasing trend as skew angle increased. A categorical model was found to best describe the skew relationship using discrete skew angle ranges. Among three-leg intersections, a skew angle between 17 to 27 degrees experienced 22 percent more crashes than perpendicular intersections. However, more highly skewed three-leg intersections exhibited a decreasing relationship to increasing skew angle. Among four-leg intersections, a skew angle between 17 to 27 degrees experienced 40 percent more crashes, while intersections with a skew angle greater than 45 degrees did not have significantly different crash occurrence than perpendicular intersections. The implications of assuming a monotonic increasing relationship to skew angle are challenged as a result of this study. Multi-leg intersections with more than four approach legs constitute a rare circumstance, yet these sites experience higher than average crash frequencies compared to conventional four-leg intersections. Single-vehicle as well as angle and rear-end crash types are most likely to occur at multi-leg intersections based on the history of crashes observed.The procedures described in this study are consistent with the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) and subsequent state of the art research for the procurement of safety performance models for any variety of circumstances. By utilizing an expansive data set and geospatial mapping techniques, the analysis is extended to previously unexplored site types. The extension of predictive safety analysis to atypical intersection types with unique geometric characteristics helps to fill a gap in the current field of practice with the hope of achieving an ultimate goal toward zero deaths in motor vehicle transportation.
Download or read book Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Highway Accident and Highway Conditions written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Median Intersection Design for Rural High speed Divided Highways written by T. H. Maze and published by Transportation Research Board National Research. This book was released on 2010 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes common safety issues at median intersections on rural divided highways and presents innovative geometric and operational treatments for addressing those issues. Ten case studies illustrate how they have been applied in the field. The report includes recommendations for modifications to the AASHTO A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets (Green Book) and the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD).
Download or read book Safety Effectiveness of Highway Design Features Intersections written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Checklist of State Publications written by Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Download or read book Updating the Crash Modification Factors and Calibrating the IHSDM for Indiana written by Andrew Tarko and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM) is a tool for assessing the safety impact of project-level design decisions by implementing the HSM crash prediction methodology. Safety Performance Functions (SPFs), Crash Modification Factors/Functions (CMFs), calibration factors, and crash proportions are utilized in predicting the number, severity, and type of crashes occurring on various types of roadway facilities. This study updated and expanded the set of CMFs applicable to Indiana conditions for various geometric, traffic, pavement, and other road characteristics. CMFs for 80 various road and control improvements for urban and rural segments, intersections, and interchanges. This report also presents the methodology of calibrating the IHSDM's predictive components based on local data and past research. This method jointly estimates the SPFs and CMFs to preserve the crash prediction consistency. SPFs, CMFs, and crash proportions were calibrated for Indiana rural two-lane segments, rural divided multilane segments, and urban/suburban arterial segments. Example calculations showed that some results were only slightly affected while others vary considerably. This finding confirms the need for calibrating the parameters in the IHSDM to local conditions.
Download or read book Safety of U turns at Unsignalized Median Openings written by Ingrid B. Potts and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2004 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 524: Safety of U-Turns at Unsignalized Median Openings includes recommended guidelines for locating and designing unsignalized median openings, and a methodology for comparing the relative safety performance of different designs"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book HRIS Abstracts written by National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Highway Safety Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
