Highway safety manual.
"The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) is a resource that provides safety knowledge and tools in a useful form to facilitate improved decision making based on safety performance. The focus of the HSM is to provide quantitative information for decision making. The HSM assembles currently available inf...
| Corporate Authors: | , , , |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials,
[2010]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) is a resource that provides safety knowledge and tools in a useful form to facilitate improved decision making based on safety performance. The focus of the HSM is to provide quantitative information for decision making. The HSM assembles currently available information and methodologies on measuring, estimating and evaluating roadways in terms of crash frequency (number of crashes per year) and crash severity (level of injuries due to crashes). The HSM presents tools and methodologies for consideration of 'safety' across the range of highway activities: planning, programming, project development, construction, operations, and maintenance. The purpose of this is to convey present knowledge regarding highway safety information for use by a broad array of transportation professionals"--Page xxiii. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (3 volumes) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781615836536 1615836535 9781560514770 1560514779 |