Federal regulations indicate that highway agencies should work with utility companies to treat utility facilities that are found likely to cause injury to motorists. Between 1994 and 1998, Alabama ranked 14th among the 50 states in total utility pole...

Over a three year period (2004-2006), there were more than 60,000 crashes involving fixed objects (trees, utility poles, : culverts, bridge piers, etc.) located within South Carolina roadsides. These fixed object crashes accounted for 20% of all cras...

The objective of this project is to develop tools and procedures by which Iowa engineers can identify potentially hazardous roadway locations and designs, and to demonstrate the utility of these tools by developing candidate lists of high crash locat...

Federal and state policy makers increasingly emphasize the need to reduce highway crash rates. This emphasis is demonstrated in Iowa's recently released draft Iowa Strategic Highway Safety Plan and by the U.S. Department of Transportation's placement...

Maine was recently ranked 9th in the nation concerning fatalities caused by collisions with utility poles based on : Miles of Travel. The number of collisions and fatalities can be reduced significantly with an updated Utility Pole : Placement Policy...