| Title | Safety Evaluation of Multiple Strategies at Stop-Controlled Intersections : [techbrief] |
|---|---|
| Record ID | 65648 |
| Personal Name Creator |
Le, Thanh; Gross, Frank B.; Eccles, Kimberly A.; Soika, Jonathan; Persaud, Bhagwant |
| Personal Name Contributor |
Amjadi, Roya |
| Corporate Creator | United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology |
| Corporate Contributor |
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center |
| Publisher | United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology |
| Publication Date | 20171201 |
| Language | English |
| Abstract | The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) established the Development of Crash Modification Factors (DCMF) program in 2012 to address highway safety research needs for evaluating new and innovative safety strategies (improvements) by developing reliable quantitative estimates of their effectiveness in reducing crashes. The goal of the DCMF program is to save lives by identifying new safety strategies that effectively reduce crashes and to promote those strategies for nationwide implementation by providing measures of their safety effectiveness and benefit–cost (B/C) ratios through research. State transportation departments and other transportation agencies need to have objective measures for safety effectiveness and B/C ratios before investing in broad applications of new strategies for safety improvements. Forty State transportation departments provide technical feedback on safety improvements to the DCMF program and implement new safety improvements to facilitate evaluations. These States are members of the Evaluation of Low-Cost Safety Improvements Pooled Fund Study, which functions under the DCMF program. This study evaluated a combined application of multiple low-cost treatments at stop-controlled intersections. Improvements included basic signing and pavement markings. The intent of this strategy is to reduce the frequency and severity of crashes at stop-controlled intersections by alerting drivers to the presence and type of approaching intersection. Many studies have explored the safety effectiveness of basic signing or pavement marking improvements. However, no study has conducted a rigorous evaluation of the effectiveness of installing packages of these strategies in combination across many intersections. This study sought to fill this knowledge gap. |
| Rosap ID | dot:38023 |
| Rosap URL | https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/38023 |
| TRT Terms | Unsignalized intersections; Traffic safety; Multiway stop signs |
| Geographical Coverage |
United States |
| Report Number | FHWA-HRT-17-087; HRDI-20/12-17(200)E |
| Resource type | Tech Report |
| URL | https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/65000/65600/65648/FHWA-HRT-17-087.pdf |
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| Database | NTL Digital Repository |