Safety Considerations for All Road Users on Edge Lane Roads [Summary]

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• Creators:
  Williams, Michael ; Lamera, Marcial ; Bauranov, Aleksandar ; Voulgaris, Carole Turley ; Pande, Anurag
• Corporate Creators:
  San Jose State University. College of Business ; Mineta Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology ; United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program ; California Department of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Cyclists
  • Crash data
  • Crash modification factors
  • Simulation
  • Empirical methods
• Publication/ Report Number:
  Project 1925
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States;Australia
• Corporate Publisher:
  San Jose State University. College of Business. Mineta Transportation Institute
• Abstract:
  To assess the safety effects of ELRs, we used a simulation-based approach as well as crash data analysis. We assembled crash data from ELR installations in the US and from Queensland, Australia. Crash data were used to conduct corridor-based and project-based Empirical Bayes (EB) before-and-after evaluations to estimate the safety effectiveness of ELRs. Both approaches are documented in the Highway Safety Manual. The corridor-based approach is less data-intensive for the study sites but provided a very conservative estimate of the Crash Modification Factor (CMF) for ELRs. The more accurate but more data-intensive project-based approach provides a more realistic estimate of the CMF.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/67435/dot_67435_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.40 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers
• Main Document Checksum:
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