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 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 Highway Safety Requirements for Low volume Rural Roads written by John C. Glennon and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluation of Mitigation for Safety Concerns on Low Volume Unpaved Rural Roads written by Tom McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Institute for Transportation (InTrans) at Iowa State University completed work on an in-depth study of crash history on lowvolume, rural roads in Iowa in December 2010. Results indicated that unpaved roads with traffic volumes greater than 100 vehicles per day (vpd) exhibit significantly higher crash frequencies, rates, and densities than any other class of low-volume road examined, paved or unpaved. The total mileage for this class of roadway in Iowa is only about 4,400 miles, spread over 99 counties in the state, which is certainly a manageable number of miles for individual rural agencies. The purpose of this study was to identify and examine several unpaved, local road segments with higher than average crash frequencies, select and undertake potentially-beneficial mitigation, and evaluate the results as time allowed. A variety of low-cost options were considered, including engineering improvements, enhanced efforts by law enforcement, and educational initiatives. Using input, active support, and participation from local agencies and state and Federal safety advocates, the study afforded a unique opportunity to examine useful tools for local rural agencies to utilize in addressing safety on this particular type of roadway.
Download or read book Design and Traffic Control Guidelines for Low volume Rural Roads written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safety for Low Volume Unpaved Roads written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern societies have developed excellent practices and procedures for improving safety. Most of these efforts have focused on safety issues on high volume paved roads. However, the situation on unpaved roads is not as encouraging. Scarce resources have governments in their efforts to provide safer roadway environments on these facilities. Due to the increased level of litigation arising from claims of negligence, it is no longer acceptable to do nothing because of limited resources. This paper provides a realistic approach to the dilemma faced by local officials responsible for unpaved roads. It is based on research conducted since 1994 in defining a new set of criteria to assist local governments in improving unpaved road safety. Worldwide, safety improvements are needed on low volume unpaved roads. This paper also presents approaches used to improve local rural unpaved road safety. Safety improvements include definable benefits for the real world; benefits that are practical, needed, and acceptable. The examples presented in this paper serve as guidelines to define, analyze, and solve existing safety problems. Although techniques to improve local unpaved road safety use proven technology, the acceptance of the approach reported in this paper will advance the state-of-the-art by developing into a format which can be used by real world practitioners. Case study surveys of practitioners, users and safety experts are presented to help define the proposed safety improvement program. A Delphi procedure was used to document the final analysis approach. For the covering abstract of this conference see IRRD number 872978.
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 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 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 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: By identifying safety concerns on low-volume rural roads, local agencies can cost-effectively priortize mitigative action.
Download or read book Highway safety federal and state efforts to address rural road safety challenges report to congressional committees written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Best Practices for Low cost Safety Improvements on Iowa s Local Roads written by Robert Bayes Sperry and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many good maintenance practices are done routinely to ensure safe travel on low-volume roads. In addition, there are many specific treatments that may go beyond the point of routine maintenance and in fact provide additional safety benefits with a relatively low price tag. The purpose of this publication is to try to assemble many of these treatments that are currently practiced in Iowa by local agencies into one, easy-to-reference handbook that not only provides some clarity to each treatment with photos and narrative, but also features references to agencies currently using that technique. Some strategies that are utilized by Iowa, other states, and are topics of research have also been included to allow the user more information about possible options. Even though some areas overlap, the strategies presented have been grouped together in the following areas: Signing and Delineation, Traffic "Calming," Pavement Marking and Rumble Strips/Stripes, Roadside and Clear Zone, Guardrail and Barriers, Lightning, Pavements and Shoulders, Intersections, Railroad Crossings, Bridges and Culverts, and Miscellaneous. Our intention is to make this a "living" document, which will continue to be updated and expanded periodically as other existing practices are recognized or new practices come into being.
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 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 Federal and State Efforts to Address Rural Road Safety Challenges Report to Congressional Committees written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving Operational Safety on Local Roads and Streets written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Highway Safety Requirement for Low volume Rural Roads written by John Charles Glennon and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
