Investigation of Highway Work Zone Crashes

Wang, Jun; Hughes, Warren E.; Council, Forrest M.; Paniati; Jeffery F.

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Investigation of Highway Work Zone Crashes

1996-10-01
By Wang, Jun ; Hughes, Warren E. ; Council, Forrest M. ; ...

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Wang, Jun ; Hughes, Warren E. ; Council, Forrest M. ; Paniati ; Jeffery F.

Wang, Jun ; Hughes, Warren E. ; Council, Forrest M. ; Paniati ; Jeffery F. Less -
Corporate Contributors:

LENDIS Corporation ; Bellomo-McGee, Inc. ; University of North Carolina (System). Highway Safety Research Center ; United States. Federal Highway Administration

LENDIS Corporation ; Bellomo-McGee, Inc. ; University of North Carolina (System). Highway Safety Research Center ; United States. Federal Highway Administration Less -
Subject/TRT Terms:

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Accident Reporting Technologies Crash Characteristics Crash Data Crash Reports Data Collection Highway Safety Reporting Procedures Road Construction Workers Uniform Definitions Work Zone Accident Reporting Work Zone Crashes Work Zone Safety
Publication/ Report Number:

FHWA-RD-96-100
Resource Type:

Research Paper
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Corporate Publisher:

United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
Abstract:

Work zone safety continues to be a high-priority issue for traffic engineering professionals and highway agencies. Based on the Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS), work zone fatalities climbed to an all-time high in 1994 when 833 people were killed. This figure represents an approximately 29-percent increase over 1992 when work zone deaths reached a 10-year low. The study objectives of this investigation were to: attempt to more clearly quantify the magnitude of highway work zone crashes using the Highway Safety Information System (HSIS); investigate characteristics of highway work zone crashes; investigate how work zone crashes are reported on police accident report forms and how reporting procedures affect the crash numbers that have been reported; identify critical voids in the knowledge of the relative safety of work zones; and examine possible ways to address currently unfulfilled information needs related to work zone safety.
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The original format of this document was an active HTML page(s). The Federal Highway Administration converted the HTML page(s) into an Adobe Acrobat PDF file to preserve and support reuse of the information it contained. The intellectual content of this PDF is an authentic capture of the original HTML file. Hyperlinks and other functions of the HTML webpage may have been lost, and this version of the content may not fully work with screen reading software. Preservation Date: 2020-07-15.
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urn:sha256:5d15acd2f62a699455fa8c48d7a466ef69f91f865fb71e3ace13a29ce587bce0
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https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/56918/dot_56918_DS1.pdf
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