Development of Safety Performance Functions for Restricted Crossing U-Turn (RCUT) Intersections

The overall goal of this project is to provide appropriate safety performance functions for different types of restricted crossing U-turn (RCUT) intersection for use by Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) planners and engineers at various levels of project development and safety analysis. Consistent with this goal, the main objectives of this project are: (a) to collect geometric, traffic and crash data from a sufficient number of existing RCUT intersections in the United States; (b) to determine significant factors influencing the RCUT intersection safety; and (c) to develop, calibrate, and validate safety performance functions (SPFs) for RCUTs with different characteristics (urban/rural, unsignalized/signalized, etc) base don the collected data.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $215000
• Contract Numbers:

  BDV30 977-19

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Florida Department of Transportation

  Research Center
  605 Suwannee Street MS-30
  Tallahassee, FL  United States  32399-0450
• Project Managers:

  El-Urfali, Alan

• Performing Organizations:

  Florida State University, Tallahassee

  217 Westcott Building
  Tallahassee, FL  United States  32306-
• Principal Investigators:

  Ozguven, Eren

• Start Date: 20170202
• Expected Completion Date: 20190531
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Calibration; Crash data; Data collection; Intersections; Traffic safety; U turns
• Identifier Terms: Florida Department of Transportation; Safety Performance Functions
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01624874
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Florida Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: BDV30 977-19
• Files: RiP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Feb 2 2017 9:33AM