MRI 1 - Crash Modification Factors and Applications of Highway Safety Manual

The objectives and topics to be addressed include the following: 1) Determine appropriate forms of safety performance measures (SPF) regression equations; 2) Develop and implement strategies for replacement of crash rates and critical rate factors with SPF-derived data; 3) Investigate and apply before-and-after procedures recommended in the Highway Safety Manual (HSM); 4) Use residual plots to assess the confidence in and form of the SPFs at varying traffic volume; and 5) Coordinate with HSM research being performed by Southeastern Transportation Center (STC) universities to maximize regional approach to development of SPFs and Crash Modification Factors (CMFs).

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $25000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT13-G-UTC34

  13-UKY-MRI1

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Southeastern Transportation Center

  University of Tennessee
  309 Conference Center Building
  Knoxville, TN  United States  37996-4133
• Performing Organizations:

  University of Kentucky, Lexington

  Kentucky Transportation Center
  College of Engineering, 176 Raymond Building
  Lexington, KY  United States  40506-0281
• Principal Investigators:

  Souleyrette, Reginald

  Green, Eric

  Pigman, Jerry

• Start Date: 20140601
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20150531
• Source Data: RiP Project 37112

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Before and after studies; Crash modification factors; Crash rates; Regression analysis; Traffic volume
• Identifier Terms: Highway Safety Manual; Safety Performance Functions
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01537220
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: University of Kentucky, Lexington
• Contract Numbers: DTRT13-G-UTC34, 13-UKY-MRI1
• Files: RIP
• Created Date: Sep 4 2014 1:00AM