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Title: Quantification and Utilization of Driver Path in Improving Design of Highway Horizontal Curves
Accession Number: 01046087
Record Type: Component
Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Abstract: Designing horizontal curves that conform to driver behavior is a key to reaching a better design and safer highways. This could be carried out through clear, quantitative understanding of driver behavior in a real highway environment. This study is concerned with collecting such data and using the data pertaining to vehicle path and steering angle in an effort to improve the highway design. It is believed that through comparing these parameters with the actual geometric alignment, the differences could lead to finding discrepancies in the design procedure and therefore facilitating its improvement. Points of discrepancies covered in this paper include whether the presence of spiral curves is important, its recommended lengths, and the use of tangent sections between two reverse curves.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01042056
Report/Paper Numbers: 07-2033
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Said, Dalia GalalHassan, YasserAbd El Halim, A OmarPagination: 17p
Publication Date: 2007
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC, United States Media Type: CD-ROM
Features: Figures; Photos; References
(14)
; Tables
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor
Source Data: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2007 Paper #07-2033
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Feb 8 2007 6:44PM
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