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Title	RURAL CRASH PREVENTION THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Accession No	00962475
Authors	Robinson, Mark Donald
Corp. Authors / Publisher	Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.)
Publication Date	20020000
Description	375 p.
Languages	English
Abstract	Reducing crashes in rural areas is an important transportation goal and technology, in the form of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) could play a critical role in achieving this goal. In order to examine the rural crash problem and potential and existing ITS treatments, this effort is divided into 3 parts. Part I examines rural crash frequency and contributing factors, provides a discussion on crashes that are amenable to mitigation through technical means, and identifies a variety of potential ITS treatments. Part II provides a synthesis of previous/ongoing rural safety efforts and focuses on infrastructure-based systems. Part III provides further analysis of the results of Parts I and II and develops a list of recommendations with respect to application of ITS technologies to improve safety on rural roadways. In Part III the author examines (where possible) the cost effectiveness of deployed systems and identifies priority situations where ITS investments may have the greatest potential payoff. The overall potential for infrastructure-based, in-vehicle and combined infrastructure and in-vehicle ITS to address rural safety issues is discussed
Supplemental Information	Publication Date: 2002. UMI ProQuest, Ann Arbor MI. Remarks: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Queen's University, 2002. Abstract also in: Dissertation abstracts international. B. Vol. 63, no. 10(April 2003), p. 4808. Format: website
TRT Terms	Advanced rural transportation systems ; Safety
Report Number	AAT NQ73319 (UMI order #)
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Document Source	UC Berkeley Transportation Library Source Data: PATH Record Number 28013
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