Accident Modification Factors For Traffic Engineering And Its Improvements

Author : David L. Harkey
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
ISBN 13 : 0309117380
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accident Modification Factors for Traffic Engineering and ITS Improvements written by David L. Harkey and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2008 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB¿s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 617: Accident Modification Factors for Traffic Engineering and ITS Improvements explores the development of accident modification factors (AMFs) for traffic engineering and intelligent transportation system improvements. AMFs, also known as crash reduction factors, are designed to provide a simple and quick way of estimating the safety impacts of various types of engineering improvements, encompassing the areas of signing, alignment, channelization, and other traffic engineering solutions.

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Download or read book NCHRP Report 617 written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 36 pages
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Download or read book Crash Reduction Factors for Traffic Engineering and Intelligent Transportation System (ITS Improvements) written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This digest is an interim deliverable from NCHRP Project 17-25, 'Crash reduction factors for traffic engineering and ITS improvements,' which is being carried out under a contract with The University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC) under the direction of David L. Harkey (Principal Investigator)."--P. [1].

Author : Kumares C. Sinha
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118169662
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transportation Decision Making written by Kumares C. Sinha and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering text provides a holistic approach to decisionmaking in transportation project development and programming, whichcan help transportation professionals to optimize their investmentchoices. The authors present a proven set of methodologies forevaluating transportation projects that ensures that all costs andimpacts are taken into consideration. The text's logical organization gets readers started with asolid foundation in basic principles and then progressively buildson that foundation. Topics covered include: Developing performance measures for evaluation, estimatingtravel demand, and costing transportation projects Performing an economic efficiency evaluation that accounts forsuch factors as travel time, safety, and vehicle operatingcosts Evaluating a project's impact on economic development and landuse as well as its impact on society and culture Assessing a project's environmental impact, including airquality, noise, ecology, water resources, and aesthetics Evaluating alternative projects on the basis of multipleperformance criteria Programming transportation investments so that resources can beoptimally allocated to meet facility-specific and system-widegoals Each chapter begins with basic definitions and concepts followedby a methodology for impact assessment. Relevant legislation isdiscussed and available software for performing evaluations ispresented. At the end of each chapter, readers are providedresources for detailed investigation of particular topics. Theseinclude Internet sites and publications of international anddomestic agencies and research institutions. The authors alsoprovide a companion Web site that offers updates, data foranalysis, and case histories of project evaluation and decisionmaking. Given that billions of dollars are spent each year ontransportation systems in the United States alone, and that thereis a need for thorough and rational evaluation and decision makingfor cost-effective system preservation and improvement, this textshould be on the desks of all transportation planners, engineers,and educators. With exercises in every chapter, this text is anideal coursebook for the subject of transportation systems analysisand evaluation.

Author : Paulo Mendonça
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030945146
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Architecture, Materials and Construction written by Paulo Mendonça and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Architecture, Materials and Construction (ICAMC), held in Lisbon, Portugal on October 27-29, 2021. ICAMC serves as an international forum for the presentation of the latest technological advances and research results in the fields of architecture and urban planning, civil and structural engineering, and materials manufacturing and processing. As such, it explores highly diverse topics, including innovative construction technologies (computer and digital manufacturing) and materials (polymers, composites, etc.); traditional materials (glass, wood, steel, concrete, stone, brick, etc.) and its harmonic combination which can be achieved by evaluating their structural and non-structural properties; the key concepts of efficiency and sustainability related to the architectural design and engineering of new buildings; analysis, rehabilitation and restoration of buildings. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaborations.

Author : United States. President's Committee for Traffic Safety
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Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book Engineering written by United States. President's Committee for Traffic Safety and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Task Force for Roadside Safety
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roadside Design Guide written by American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Task Force for Roadside Safety and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9282103781
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speed Management written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speeding is the number one road safety problem in a large number of OECD/ECMT countries. It is responsible for around one third of the current, unacceptably high levels of road fatalities. Speeding has an impact not only on accidents but also on the ...

Author : Darren J. Torbic
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
ISBN 13 : 0309117992
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book Guidance for the Design and Application of Shoulder and Centerline Rumble Strips written by Darren J. Torbic and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2009 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides guidance for the design and application of shoulder and centerline rumble strips as an effective crash reduction measure, while minimizing adverse effects for motorcyclists, bicyclists, and nearby residents. Using the results of previous studies and the research conducted under this project, safety effectiveness estimates were developed for shoulder rumble strips on rural freeways and rural two-lane roads and for centerline rumble strips on rural and urban two-lane roads.

Author : Andrew Tarko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781622604951
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Updating the Crash Modification Factors and Calibrating the IHSDM for Indiana written by Andrew Tarko and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM) is a tool for assessing the safety impact of project-level design decisions by implementing the HSM crash prediction methodology. Safety Performance Functions (SPFs), Crash Modification Factors/Functions (CMFs), calibration factors, and crash proportions are utilized in predicting the number, severity, and type of crashes occurring on various types of roadway facilities. This study updated and expanded the set of CMFs applicable to Indiana conditions for various geometric, traffic, pavement, and other road characteristics. CMFs for 80 various road and control improvements for urban and rural segments, intersections, and interchanges. This report also presents the methodology of calibrating the IHSDM's predictive components based on local data and past research. This method jointly estimates the SPFs and CMFs to preserve the crash prediction consistency. SPFs, CMFs, and crash proportions were calibrated for Indiana rural two-lane segments, rural divided multilane segments, and urban/suburban arterial segments. Example calculations showed that some results were only slightly affected while others vary considerably. This finding confirms the need for calibrating the parameters in the IHSDM to local conditions.