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Wet-weather skidding accident reduction at intersections
Title:
Wet-weather skidding accident reduction at intersections
Author:
Paddock, Richard D.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Columbus, Ohio : Ohio Dept. of Transportation, Division of Highways, Bureau of Traffic Control, 1985.
Physical Description:
v, 427 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Series:
Report / National Cooperative Highway Research Program ; 1-12A

Report (National Cooperative Highway Research Program) ; 1-12A.
General Note:
Prepared for National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council.

"January, 1985."
Contents:
Abstract -- Summary -- Introduction and research approach -- Findings -- Interpretation, appraisal, applications -- Conclusions and suggested research -- Appendices.
Abstract:
This report documents a study of wet-weather skidding accidents at intersections as related to vehicle approach speeds, tractive demand, and intersection characteristics. Vehicle speed vs. distance and acceleration vs. distance profiles were measured at rural inersections utilizing a microprocessor-based instrumentation system and small pneumatic tube vehicle detectors. A total of 53 approach-days, roughly 30,000 vehicles, were analyzed to identify relationships between the variables of intersection geometry, approach speed, acceleration profile, and wet-weather rate. Output from the subject research was a regresssion model to predict wet-weather skidding accidents on an approach by approach basis. This regression model calls only for the collection of simple approach speed data as might be measured with a radar speed meter and the proposed implementation procedure has been written to facilitate use by local Traffic Engineers. Through application of this technique, the Traffic Engineer is provided with an inexpensive process for ranking the relative potential for wet-weather skidding accidents at intersections. He may then direct his resources to identifications of causes for the higher potential and in turn the appropriate course of action to reduce said potential to an acceptable level.
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