The influence of road surface condition on traffic safety.

Author(s)
Ihs, A.
Year
Abstract

During the latest years VTI has carried out research within a project called "The impact of road surface on traffic" on commission by the Swedish National Road Administration (SNRA). The objective of the project is to improve and supplement the road user effect models in the SNRA pavement management system (PMS). Studies have been/are being carried out on the impact of road surface on vehicle speed, ride comfort, fuel consumption, noise properties and safety. The main objective with this study has been to provide new models describing the relation between traffic safety and the road surface condition. In the accident cost model used today the only road surface parameter included is rut depth and only ruts deeper than 10 mm are considered to have any influence on traffic safety. The relation is then linear and the accident cost increases with increasing rut depth. (Author/publisher)

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20051070 c ST S (In: 20051070 ST S)
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In: Reprint from the 2nd European Pavement and Asset Management Conference, 21st-23rd March 2004, Berlin, Germany, p. 25-32, 4 ref.

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