Evaluation of US 119 Pine Mountain safety improvements : interim report.

Details

• Creators:
  Pigman, Jerry G. ; Agent, Kenneth R.
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Kentucky Transportation Center
• Corporate Contributors:
  Kentucky. Transportation Cabinet
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Traffic safety
  • Truck traffic
  • Road construction
  • Improvements
  • Law enforcement
  • Before and after studies
  • Accident data
  • Accident rates
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Kentucky
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of Kentucky Transportation Center
• Abstract:
  The safety improvement project for a section of US 119 across Pine Mountain in Letcher County was initiated as an interim effort to address safety issues related t o roadway geometrics and specific problems related to truck traffic. ; Specific objectives were as follows: 1) to determine the effects of a ban on truck traffic that was implemented in March 2001, 2) to determine if the types of improvements undertaken as part of the project are applicable to other locations, and 3) to determine if the use of flexible design was successful by allowing the Transportation Cabinet to remove the truck restriction by permitting trucks with dimensions up to the WB-50 design to travel across the mountain and be able to track within their own lane.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  KTC=03-34/FR121-02-1I
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/21577/dot_21577_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 187.32 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ea1c900979206b19e9de3005e2aa56c16de732f5fb355b32f8b4c78896adb33ac24b0323d3930e2f12723441917bbb1ba24ffbb1f92bdd47e08bf026d9f68a55