Highway safety manual
By: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
Contributors: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Joint Task Force on the Highway Safety Manual; National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781560514770
Subjects: Roads; Traffic safety; Safety measures; Handbooks, manuals; Highway safety
Other titles: HSM
Description: "The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) is a resource that provides safety knowledge and tools in a useful form to facilitate improved decision making based on safety performance. The focus of the HSM is to provide quantitative information for decision making. The HSM assembles currently available information and methodologies on measuring, estimating and evaluating roadways in terms of crash frequency (number of crashes per year) and crash severity (level of injuries due to crashes). The HSM presents tools and methodologies for consideration of 'safety' across the range of highway activities: planning, programming, project development, construction, operations, and maintenance. The purpose of this is to convey present knowledge regarding highway safety information for use by a broad array of transportation professionals"--P. xxiii.
Notes: Performed by the Transportation Research Board Task Force on the Development of the Highway Safety Manual, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Joint Task Force on the Highway Safety Manual, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1; title: Part A. Introduction, Human Factors, and Fundamentals; title: Part B. Roadway Safety Management Process; title: Ch. 4. Network Screening; title: Ch. 5. Diagnosis; title: Ch. 6. Select Countermeasures; title: Ch. 7. Economic Appraisal; title: Ch. 8. Prioritize Projects; title: Ch. 9. Safety Effectiveness Evaluation; title: Vol 2.; title: Part C. Predictive Method; title: Ch. 10. Predictive Method for Rural Two-Lane, Two-Way Roads; title: Ch. 11. Predictive Method for Rural Multilane Highways; title: Ch. 12. Predictive Method for Urban and Suburban Arterials; title: Vol. 3.; title: Part D. Crash Modification Factors; title: Ch. 13. Roadway Segments; title: Ch. 14. Intersections; title: Ch. 15. Interchanges; title: Ch. 16. Special Facilities and Geometric Situations; title: Ch. 17. Road Networks.