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Title: THE LOCATION AND TREATMENT OF URBAN SKIDDING HAZARD SITES
Accession Number: 00163897
Record Type: Component
Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: The first part of the paper reviews the research that has been carried out in recent years by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory and others in Great Britain and shows that for asphalt surfaced roads the sideway force coefficient can be predicted from a knowledge of the stone in the surfacing, the traffic intensity and the amount by which vehicles are manoeuvring. The difficulty of establishing minimum standards for skid resistance is discussed and it is suggested that the selection of a minimum standard depends upon economic considerations. Many roads which can be shown to be slippery when judged against existing standards are not necessarily hazardous and their treatment may not be economically justifiable. The majority of personal injury of these occur at road intersections. In London for example there are approximately 55,000 personal injury accidents each year and over 70% of these occur at road junctions. For this reason, action in London has been aimed at the juncition problem and more than 800 junction and other similar hazard areas such as the approaches to pedestrian crossings have now been treated with an epoxy resin/calcined bauxite form of surfacing dressing. "Before and After" accident studies on groups of the treated sites are presented and the economics of this form of treatment are examined. Two methods of locating sites where the accidnet rate can be reduced by surface treatment are described, based upon the use of a machine for monitoring skid resistance and the use of computerised accident data. It is suggesteed that the philosophy and the methods described in the paper could be applicable to many other urban areas.
Supplemental Notes: This article appeared in Transportation Research Record No. 623, Skidding Accidents: Wet-Weather Accident Experience, Human Factors, and Legal Aspects.
Monograph Accession #: 01410997
Authors: Hatherly, Leslie WYoung, Arthur EPagination: pp 21-28
Publication Date: 1977
Serial: Conference:
Second International Skid Prevention Conference
Location:
Columbus Ohio, United States ISBN: 0309025671
Media Type: Digital/other
Features: References
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TRT Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Oct 13 1977 12:00AM
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