The development of accident-remedial intervention levels for rural roads. Prepared for the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions DETR, Road Safety Division.

Author(s)
Barker, J. Farmer, S. & Taylor, M.
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Abstract

This report describes a study for DETR Road Safety Division to suggest a set of accident-remedial intervention levels for use on rural roads (i.e., those with speed limits greater than or equal to 50 miles/h) as these roads rarely qualify for consideration under traditional intervention levels. Rural intervention levels have been developed which take exposure into account explicitly (using accident rates - accidents per km, or per vehicle-km, or per bend or junction), or which relate to expected proportions of different accident types - using national data. When the accident occurrence in a particular area or on a given road exceeds the intervention level, it is suggested that that area/road should be considered for accident-remedial treatment. (A)

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Library number
C 15070 [electronic version only] /82 / IRRD E102824
Source

Crowthorne, Berkshire, Transport Research Laboratory TRL, 1999, IV + 14 p., 8 ref.; TRL Report ; No. 425 - ISSN 0968-4107

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