A comparison of freeway and parallel major arterial corridors : a study of safety patterns in the Denver metropolitan area.

Details

• Creators:
  Hensen, Ron ; Miyaki, Joe
• Corporate Creators:
  Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc.
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Freeways
  • Arterial highways
  • Annual average daily traffic
  • Accident rates
  • Peak hour traffic
  • Traffic volume
  • Highway safety
• Publication/ Report Number:
  CDOT-2015-11
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Colorado
• Corporate Publisher:
  Colorado. Dept. of Transportation. Research Branch
• Abstract:
  Observations and initial examination of ADT and peak-hour volume data on Denver regional arterials suggests questions as ; to if and why they are happening, and what the implications are on corridor travel and accident patterns? This proposed ; research task will investigate these trends and address questions, to assist CDOT in better determining which improvements ; would more likely decrease accident experience while improving corridor capacity. The research will focus on a selected ; freeway section and corresponding regional arterials corridors. The study will address the effects of arterial traffic volume ; diversion patterns and the discontinuities on freeway versus arterial safety parameters. ; The final product of this research will be a report presenting the traffic and safety statistics and trends along a selected ; freeway/arterial corridor, with conclusions as to what improvements are most likely to improve safety and corridor thru-put ; on both.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  90.69
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/29723/dot_29723_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.01 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:f5c7604db689b6c73858ea77861e61b88ff1d68d53b83997c42175ee0d3452d9