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Title:

EFFECT OF RESURFACING ON SAFETY OF TWO-LANE RURAL ROADS IN NEW YORK STATE

Accession Number:

00677704

Language:

English

Abstract:

In the early 1980s, two kinds of resurfacing projects were undertaken in New York State: Fast track projects involving only resurfacing, and reconditioning and preservation (R&P) projects in which roadside and roadway safety improvements have been incorporated with resurfacing. The question was whether following resurfacing the fast track projects [226.7 mi (364.8 km)] perform less well, from a safety viewpoint, than the R&P projects [137.2 mi (220.8 km)]. Findings indicated that in fast track projects safety initially declined, but in R&P projects safety improved. Another conclusion that emerges from this work is that, within the first 6 to 7 years of pavement life, safety improves as the pavement ages. The Empirical Bayes approach to the study of the safety effect has been used. Two methodological innovations may be of interest. First, because the safety effect of resurfacing changes as the pavement ages, it was necessary to find a way to examine changes in safety as a function of time. Second, the accuracy of studies of this kind is often limited by the sparsity of accident data. The method used here allows the use of a long "before" accident history to enhance estimation accuracy.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1467, Traffic and Roadway Accident Analysis and Traffic Records Research.

TRIS Files:

HRIS

Pagination:

p. 30-37

Authors:

Hauer, E
Terry, D
Griffith, M S

Publication Date:

1994

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 1467more icon
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

Corporate Authors:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0309060737

ISBN:

0309060737

Features:

Figures (4) ; References (3) ; Tables (4)

Index Terms:

Accident data; Construction scheduling; Empirical bayesian methods; Fast track; New York (State); Reconditioning and preservation; Resurfacing; Rural highways; Safety; State of New York; Two lane highways

Subject Areas:

Highways; Pavements; Safety and Human Factors; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure

Last Modified:

May 31 1995 12:00AM

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