Highway Economic Requirements System: Safety Model Assessment

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• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Legislation and Strategic Planning
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Crashes
  • Risk
  • Costs
  • Crash risk forecasting
  • Highway safety
  • Traffic safety
  • Economic factors
  • safety models
  • Highway Economic Requirements System
  • Highways
  More +
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  There are many reasons to be concerned with estimating the frequency and social costs of highway accidents, but most reasons are motivated by a desire to minimize these costs to the extent feasible. Competition for scarce resources is a practical necessity, and society seeks to apply those resources where they will do the most good. With highway crashes, given the high costs of misprediction in fatalities and injuries, sound information for prioritizing projects with limited funds is essential. The Highway Economic Requirements System (HERS) model applies crash prediction equations in the context of deciding which kinds of highway improvements are justified for which sections of highway. Thus, it is concerned with the effects of geometric attributes on expected highway accidents.
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  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/38773/dot_38773_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.23 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center ; Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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