NTL Record

Title Evaluation of the Sequential Dynamic Curve Warning System: Summary of Full Report
Record ID 78840
Personal Name
Creator
Smadi, Omar; Hawkins, Neal; Knickerbocker, Skylar; Hallmark, Shauna; Pike, Adam
Personal Name
Contributor
Merritt, George; Zirlin, Julie
Corporate Creator Iowa State University. Center for Transportation Research and Education
Corporate
Contributor
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Publisher United States. Federal Highway Administration
Publication Date 20151101
Language English
Abstract Implementing safety countermeasures on rural horizontal curves to address speeding can improve the safety performance for those locations. State safety and traffic engineers are faced with making decisions on what type of technology to use and which sites to use the technology on in a fiscally constrained environment. The research conducted for this project evaluated a Sequential Dynamic Curve Warning System (SDCWS) that could be an additional tool for these engineers to use either separately or in combination with other countermeasures to address horizontal curve locations with a history of safety concerns. TAPCO provided the SDCWS evaluated in this project and provided installation and maintenance support to the DOTs. The full report is available as a separate document (report no. FHWA-15-CAI-012-B). This project was undertaken in 2011 by the Federal Highway Administration’s Highways for LIFE Technology Partnerships Program, a discretionary program of SAFETEA-LU (Public Law 109-59). The purpose of the program is to evaluate, document, and disseminate the performance results of promising innovative highway safety technologies that are commercially available through a partnership with general industry and state and local highway agencies
Rosap ID dot:54500
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/54500
TRT Terms Highway safety; Signalization; Highway curves; Rural highways
Geographical
Coverage
United States
TRIS Online
Accession No
1766890
Contract Number DTFH61-10-D00024-T-11005
Report Number FHWA-15-CAI-012-A
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/78000/78800/78840/dynamic_summary_report.pdf
Alternative URL https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hfl/partnerships/tapco/summary_report.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository