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One of the primary purposes for redesigning a roadway segment is to improve safety. In the U.S., the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) plans to require all states to implement safety management plans within the next several years. The primary objectives of a safety management plan are to identify and prioritize hazardous roadway locations and features. Although these objectives are easily stated they are difficult to achieve because there is no commonnly accepted technique for quantifying safety. This paper describes a systematic technique for quantifying safety that can be used to identify, prioritize and compare hazardous locations. An object oriented software technique for implementing this technique is then described in later sections.

VTI RApport 372A, Part 2

English

v.p.

1991

VTI Rapport

Proceedings of the Conference, Strategic Highway Research Program and Traffic Safety on Two Continents, Part Two

References

Hazard evaluation; Highway design; Safety; Safety management; Standards

Road conditions; Safety standards

Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I85: Safety Devices used in Transport Infrastructure

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Nov 18 1993 12:00AM

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• SIDE IMPACT CRASH TESTING OF HIGHWAY SAFETY HARDWARE