8th IRFf world meeting, documentation session b: highway operations and traffic safety. B-1: traffic engineering and highway operations. B-2: traffic accidents and safety measures.

Part B-1 of session b contains the following reports: a strategy for a labour-intensive mechanism to control traffic at urban intersections, adebisi,o and steuart,gn; the evaluation of a new highway data acquisition system, bergan,at, sparks,ga and dyck,gj; highway capacity research study on design hour volume for northeast of brazil, dantas,cp and da costa lima neto,oc; an approach to maintenance management of public roads in finland, haerkoenen,pk; computer graphics and its impact on the road designer, hollingworth,gh; safety in the transport of dangerous goods in tankers (la securite dans le transport des matieres dangereuses en vehicules citernes - this report is presented in french), kemler,h; traffic characteristics on rural expressways, kikuta,t; liquid treatment with commercial calcium chloride for winter road maintenance, scotto,eg; traffic control on a motorway with peak traffic flow at touristic times, vandierendonck,lj. Part B-2 of session b contains the following reports: analysis of traffic operations for safety, baldwin,dm; carriageway edgelining and the effect on road safety, charnok,db; experiment on visual guidance of lighting pole arrangement at interchanges, hakamada,m; roadway lighting specification based on safe traffic needs, ketvirtis,a, weinstein,w and cooper,pj; influence of constructional elements in modern road design on accident rates and their share in causing accidents, knoflacher,h; analysis of traffic accidents - the geometric design of highways and traffic conditions, kurimoto,n; using science to capture light, landen,jc; are our highways too unforgiving? Manley,jp; proposal for small-scale road improvements based on survey statistics on traffic accidents, oka,s; analysis of road traffic accidents and vehicle safety (analyse des accidents de la circulation routiere et securite des vehicules - this paper is presented in french), praxenthaler,h; multidisciplinary investigation of road accidents - the recent brazilian experience, de queiroz ribeiro,m, soares,lr and canabrava,js; decreasing high accident risk in winter, wahlgren,og, niemi,ae and salusjaervi,mr; benefits of using raised reflective pavement markers in roadway delineation, wilson,je. For the covering abstract of the conference, see irrd abstract no 236026.