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Recent roadway geometric design research for improved safety and operations /

TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 432: Recent Roadway Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations reviews and summarizes roadway geometric design literature completed and published from 2001 through early 2011, particularly research that identified...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brewer, Marcus
Corporate Authors: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, United States. Federal Highway Administration, National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Other Authors: Fitzpatrick, Kay
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, 2012.
Series:Synthesis of highway practice ; 432.
Subjects:
Roads > United States > Design and construction.
Roads > United States > Safety measures.
Traffic engineering > United States.
Design methods.
Access management.
Surveying methods and processes.
Traffic speed.
Online Access:http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_syn_432.pdf
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Summary:TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 432: Recent Roadway Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations reviews and summarizes roadway geometric design literature completed and published from 2001 through early 2011, particularly research that identified impacts on safety and operations. The report is structured to correspond to chapters in the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, more commonly referred to as the Green Book. NCHRP Synthesis 432 is an update of NCHRP Synthesis 299 on the same topic published in 2001.
Item Description:At head of title: National Cooperative Highway Research Program.
"Research sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration."
"A synthesis of highway practice."
"This report is an update of NCHRP Synthesis of highway practice 299 ... published in 2001"--Pref.
Synthesis of highway practice 299 issued as: Recent geometric design research for improved safety and operations / consultants, Kay Fitzpatrick and Mark Wooldridge.
Physical Description:81 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Also available online.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 74-81).
ISBN:9780309223591 (pbk.)
0309223598 (pbk.)
ISSN:0547-5570 ;