Relationship between road surface characteristics and crashes on Victorian rural roads.

Author(s)
Cairney, P. & Bennett, P.
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Abstract

This paper reports an analysis of the relationship between road surface characteristics and crashes on undivided two-way roads in the state of Victoria, Australia. Surface condition data from multi-laser profilometer surveys was linked to geometry, traffic and crash data using GIS and the resulting tables analysed to investigate the relationships. The three road surface characteristics were either uncorrelated or showed small enough correlations to disregard possible interactions among the variables. Crash rate was higher for road sections with low macrotexture; a power relationship provided a good fit to the data. Crash rate was also higher for roads where roughness was extreme, with a polynomial relationship providing a good fit to the data. No clear relationship emerged between rutting and crash rate. An economic analysis suggests that resurfacing sites with macrotexture of 1 mm sand patch texture depth (SPTD) or less might produce crash savings which would provide a very good return on the investment. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E217099.

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C 44519 (In: C 44468 CD-ROM) /23 /82 / ITRD E217056
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In: ARRB08 collaborate: research partnering with practitioners : proceedings of the 23rd ARRB Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, 30 July - 1 August 2008, 9 p., 7 ref.

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