Driver Expectancy in Highway Design and Traffic Operations

Driver Expectancy in Highway Design and Traffic Operations
Author: Gerson J. Alexander
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Total Pages: 48
Release: 1986
Genre: Automobile driving
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Expectancy relates to a driver's readiness to respond to situations, events, and information in predictable and successful ways. This report describes the concept of driver expectancy in the context of the driving task, and provides examples of expectancy and expectancy violations. It includes a procedure for identifying general and specific expectancy violations to enable engineers to develop remedial treatments to deal with expectancy problems.

Recent Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations

Recent Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations
Author: Kay Fitzpatrick
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Total Pages: 150
Release: 2001
Genre: Highway engineering
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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 299: Recent Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations reviews and summarizes selected geometric design research published during the 1990s, particularly research with improved safety and operations implication.

Design Speed, Operating Speed, and Sight Distance Issues

Design Speed, Operating Speed, and Sight Distance Issues
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
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Total Pages: 136
Release: 2000
Genre: Roads
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Transportation Research Record contains the following papers: New stopping sight distance model for use in highway geometric design (Fambro, DB, Fitzpatrick, K and Koppa, R); Driver braking performance in stopping sight distance situations (Fambro, DB, Koppa, RJ, Picha, DL and Fitzpatrick, K); Safety effects of limited stopping sight distance on crest vertical curves (Fitzpatrick, K, Fambro, DB and Stoddard, AM); Operating speed on crest vertical curves with limited stopping sight distance (Fambro, DB, Fitzpatrick, K and Russell, CW); Sight distance for stop-controlled intersections based on gap acceptance (Harwood, DW, Mason, JM and Brydia, RE); Reliability approach to intersection sight distance design (Easa, SM), Evaluation of the passing process on two-lance rural highways (Polus, A, Livneh, M and Frischer, B); Determining the best method for measuring no-passing zones (Brown, RL and Hummer, JE); Design speed and operating speed in rural highway alignment design (Krammes, RA); Speed-profile model for a design-consistency evaluation procedure in the United States (Ottesen, JL and Krammes, RA); Speed reduction as a surrogate for accident experience at horizontal curves on rural two-lane highways (Anderson, IB and Krammas, RA); Geometric design of low-speed urban streets (Tarris, JP, Mason, JM and Antonucci, ND); Mathematical models of vehicular speed on mountain roads (Andueza, PJ); Truck speed profiles (Bester, CJ); Summary of design speed, operating speed, and design consistency issues (Harwood, DW, Neuman, TR and Leisch, JP).