System-wide safety improvements
Subtitle: an approach to safety consistency
By: Benjamin V. Chatfield ; topic panel, Forrest M. Council ... [et al.].
Contributors: Council, Forrest M.; American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.; United States. Federal Highway Administration.; National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board.
Series: Synthesis of highway practice / National Cooperative Highway Research Program,; 132; Synthesis of highway practice ;; 132.
Publisher: Transportation Research Board, National Research Council
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Roads -- Safety measures -- Standards -- United States.
Description: This synthesis will be of interest to safety engineers, highway planners, and others concerned with the procedures used by states to plan and program safety improvements. Information is presented on current practice of states in using system-wide improvements to provide safety consistency. The primary purpose of system-wide safety improvements is to increase safety by improving roadway consistency - to minimize violations of driver expectancy and to avoid or reduce injury and damage that occur when a vehicle leaves the roadway. This report of the Transportation Research Board describes the system-wide and spot approaches to safety improvement, explains strategies and programs for system-wide improvements, and gives general guidelines for a program of improving roadway consistency through system-wide safety improvements.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"Research sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration."
"September 1987."