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The symposium provided a forum for highway geometric design practitioners, policy makers, and researchers from around the world to analyze and compare policies and procedures among countries on highway geometric design practices. The goal was to better understand worldwide practice and thereby stimulate the continued improvement of highway geometric design. The symposium featured opening and closing plenary sessions and six technical sessions. The opening plenary session highlighted recent changes in design policies in a sample of countries. The technical sessions included worldwide reviews and research papers on six topic areas: design speed, cross section, alignment, intersections and interchanges, sight distance, and safety and human factors. The proceedings are organized according to these sessions and contain 44 papers from authors representing 16 countries.

The proceedings have been edited by the Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University System, College Station, Texas. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

E-C003

English

v.p.

1998-1

Transportation Research Circular

International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design Practices

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Alignment; Conferences; Cross sections; Design practices; Design speed; Geometric design; Highway design; Highway safety; Human factors; Interchanges and intersections; Policy; Sight distance

Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Safety and Human Factors; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure

TRIS, TRB

Jun 8 2000 12:00AM

• A COMPARISON AND EVALUATION OF THE GEOMETRIC DESIGN PRACTICES WITH PASSING LANES, WIDE-PAVED SHOULDERS AND EXTRA-WIDE TWO-LANE HIGHWAYS IN CANADA AND GERMANY
• A COMPARISON OF INTERCHANGE PLANNING, OPERATIONS, AND DESIGN IN POLAND AND THE USA
• A NEW STOPPING SIGHT DISTANCE MODEL FOR USE IN HIGHWAY GEOMETRIC DESIGN
• A PRACTICAL SAFETY APPROACH TO HIGHWAY GEOMETRIC DESIGN INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDIES: GERMANY, GREECE, LEBANON, AND THE UNITED STATES
• A STUDY TO IMPROVE THE SAFETY OF EXPRESSWAYS BY DESIRABLE COMBINATIONS OF GEOMETRIC ALIGNMENTS
• A SURVEY OF PRINCIPAL NORTH AMERICAN 3R/4R SAFETY-GEOMETRIC DESIGN PRACTICES
• A SYSTEM FOR NO-PASSING ZONE SIGNING AND MARKING SETUP
• AN OPERATIONAL AND SAFETY EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE HORIZONTAL CURVE DESIGN APPROACHES ON RURAL TWO-LANE HIGHWAYS
• ASSESSING THE NEEDED PASSING SIGHT DISTANCE
• AT-GRADE INTERSECTIONS/WORLDWIDE REVIEW
• CHANGES IN HORIZONTAL ALIGNMENT DESIGN STANDARDS IN AUSTRALIA AND CANADA
• COMPARISON OF WORLDWIDE PRACTICE IN INTERCHANGE DESIGN
• DANISH PLANNING AND DESIGN PROCEDURES FOR TRAFFIC CALMING
• DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR PASSING SIGHT DISTANCE AND PASSING ZONES
• DESIGN CRITERIA AND TRAFFIC PERFORMANCE RESEARCH IN NEW SWEDISH GUIDELINES ON RURAL HIGHWAYS
• DESIGN CRITERIA FOR CURVES ON TWO-LANE RURAL HIGHWAYS
• DESIGN OF INTERSECTIONS ON DIVIDED HIGHWAYS
• DETERMINATION OF LONGITUDINAL GRADES ON RURAL ROADS
• DRIVING BEHAVIOR AND DRIVER MENTAL WORKLOAD AS CRITERIA OF HIGHWAY GEOMETRIC DESIGN QUALITY
• EFFECTS OF INTERSECTION GEOMETRICS ON DRIVER PERFORMANCE
• HIGHWAY GEOMETRIC DESIGN: THE ISSUE OF DRIVING BEHAVIOR VARIABILITY
• IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERMEDIATE CROSS SECTIONS
• INFLUENCE OF VEHICLE DYNAMICS ON ROAD GEOMETRICS
• INFLUENCE OF VEHICLE PARAMETERS ON HORIZONTAL CURVE DESIGN OF RURAL HIGHWAYS
• INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO HIGHWAY GEOMETRIC DESIGN IN POLAND
• INTERNATIONAL SIGHT DISTANCE DESIGN PRACTICES
• INVESTIGATION OF CURRENT AND PROPOSED SUPERELEVATION DESIGN PRACTICES ON ROADWAY CURVES
• LOW-VOLUME ROAD GEOMETRIC DESIGN PRACTICES IN THE NATIONAL FORESTS OF THE UNITED STATES
• OPERATING SPEED APPROACH TO GEOMETRIC DESIGN OF LOW-SPEED URBAN STREETS
• OVERVIEW OF CROSS SECTION DESIGN ELEMENTS
• RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN HIGHWAY CROSS SECTION DESIGN IN GERMANY
• RELATIONS BETWEEN ACCIDENT FREQUENCY AND SPEED CONSISTENCY IN PORTUGUESE TWO-LANE/TWO-WAY HIGHWAYS LINKS
• RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ROUNDABOUT GEOMETRY AND ACCIDENT RATES
• REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL DESIGN SPEED PRACTICES IN ROADWAY GEOMETRIC DESIGN
• SAFETY EFFECTS OF CROSS-SECTION DESIGN ON RURAL MULTI-LANE HIGHWAYS
• SAFETY EFFECTS OF ROAD DESIGN STANDARDS IN EUROPE
• SELECTED ASPECTS OF ROAD SAFETY IN POLISH ROAD DESIGN PRACTICE
• THE "FORGIVING ROADSIDE" DESIGN OF ROADSIDE ELEMENTS
• THE EFFECT OF RURAL ROAD GEOMETRY ON SAFETY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
• THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GEOMETRIC DESIGN STANDARDS AND SAFETY
• TOWARD THE NEW GEOMETRIC DESIGN STANDARD FOR THE 21ST CENTURY IN JAPAN
• TRUCK WIDTHS AND PATHS
• VEHICLE TRACKING IN BLACK SPOTS USING ARTIFICIAL VISION TECHNIQUES IN ORDER TO IMPROVE ROAD GEOMETRIC DESIGN STANDARDS
• WORLDWIDE REVIEW OF ALIGNMENT DESIGN POLICIES