Impacts of Intersection Treatments and Traffic Characteristics on Bicyclist Safety
The primary research objectives for this project are as follows: (1) Determine which factors affect the frequency and/or severity of bicycle vehicle-conflicts at intersections with different bicycle-related treatments such as mixing zones, leading bike interval (LBI), split LBI, as well as those traditional bicycle lanes and with no treatments, and others as feasible identified through consultation with TAC. (2) Provide data-driven guidance as to the efficacy of certain intersection treatments in mitigating vehicle-bicycle conflicts (thereby improving bicyclist safety by this surrogate measure), including consideration of how traffic and site characteristics impact these conflicts. (3) Develop a countermeasure selection ‘toolbox’ which describes the performance (in terms of bicycle-vehicle conflicts) of bicycle-specific intersection treatments under different geometric and traffic conditions. A desired outcome of this research will be determination of threshold bicycle and vehicle volumes where specific levels of treatments (e.g. pavement markings, geometry, signal treatments, or combinations of these) should be considered over others. Recommendations will be provided on the advantages/disadvantages of different treatments, and descriptions of conditions under which each treatment should/could be considered (both traffic and geometric conditions), as well as approximate time frames for implementation for each treatment.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $67500
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Contract Numbers:
SPR 833
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Sponsor Organizations:
Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Managing Organizations:
Oregon Department of Transportation
555 13th Street NE
Salem, OR United States 97301 -
Project Managers:
Roll, Josh
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Performing Organizations:
Civil and Environmental Engineering
PO box 15600
Flagstaff, Arizona United States 86011 -
Principal Investigators:
Russo, Brendan
- Start Date: 20190901
- Expected Completion Date: 20220831
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: Transportation, Planning, Research, and Development
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bicycle crashes; Bicycle lanes; Countermeasures; Crash characteristics; Highway design; Intersections; Traffic safety
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01725040
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Oregon Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: SPR 833
- Files: RIP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Dec 13 2019 12:30PM